Generative & Algorithmic Art

A topic within Digital & New Media Art, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.

Reading on Generative & Algorithmic Art

2 works

Paper1966

Human or Machine: A Subjective Comparison of Piet Mondrian's "Composition with Lines" and a Computer-Generated Picture

A. Michael Noll

Reports that viewers in a blind test preferred a computer-generated imitation of a Mondrian composition to the real painting and could not reliably tell them apart, challenging the assumption that aesthetic judgment detects the human hand.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

Visual Arts · Digital & New Media Art

FreeIntermediate

Book2012

The Nature of Code

Daniel Shiffman

Argues generative art is best taught as simulation — coding the particle systems, autonomous agents and evolutionary processes borrowed from physics and biology — rather than as abstract pattern design.