Description

The Le Random team of thefunnyguys, Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) and Conrad House (Nemo Cake) spoke to special guest Marius Watz about the ancient roots of generative art, the Pre-Modern Era.

This episode corresponds with:

• Generative Art Timeline: Chapter 1
• Article: Timeline Chapter 1's Ten Top Moments

10 Significant Pre-Modern Era Moments (Covered in the talk)

1. Blombos Cave Drawing (70,000 BCE)
2. I Ching Introduces Binary Concept (1,000 BCE)
3. Euclid’s Elements (300 BCE) 
4. Al-Khwārizmī’s Writes Concerning the Hindu Art of Reckoning (820 CE)
5. Albrecht Dürer Creates Engraving Melencolia I (1515)
6. Gottfried Leibniz Pioneers Computational Thinking (1666)
7. Johann Philip Kirnberger’s Musical Dice game (1757)
8. Joseph-Marie Jacquard Invents the Jacquard Loom (1804)
9. Nicéphore Niépce Produces First Permanent Photograph (1826)
10. Ada Lovelace Becomes First Computer Programmer (1843)