Bell Labs

The premier research development laboratory to work was Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., known as Bell Labs. Everybody wanted to be there. That was my dream.

A. Michael Noll, A. Michael Noll on 1960s Computer Art at Bell Labs

Then, another important moment is when Lillian Schwartz and Stan VanDerBeek were both invited into Bell labs to work with Ken Knowlton. VanDerBeek and Knowlton’s Poem Field videos and those early films that Lillian made are just extraordinary works of generative art.

Casey Reas, Casey Reas on the History of Generative Art - Part 1