ISTA 301 Blog

Marcel Duchamp. Rotary Glass Plates (Precision Optics) In 1920, Duchamp built Rotary Glass Plates (Precision Optics)  a motorized axis h...

Harold Cohen's AARON AARON is an artistic software program written by Harold Cohen, which creates works of art. These pieces complete...

Video Games in General While this blog is meant to focus on one work at a time, I will deviate from that format for this post because th...

John Conway's Game of Life The game of life was developed by John Conway in 1970 as a response to an old computation problem put fort...

R. Mutt's Fountain - Marcel Duchamp This urinal submitted by Marcel Duchamp is one of the most famous forms of “anti-art” or counter...

V2_lab's D-Tower The D-Tower was up from 1998 to 2004, developed by V2_lab for the Dutch city of Doetinchem. It is a large jellyfish...

Sol Lewitt's Wall Drawing 123: Copied Lines Copied Lines is a significant example of algorithmic art, by drawing an initial line a...