Harold Cohen (1928–2016) was an English painter and computer artist, active in the United States.
Harold Cohen, of course, really conceived AARON as a collaborator, as another self. He encoded his vision of art into this system.
Christiane Paul, Christiane Paul on Curating Cohen’s AARON
What I have seen among students, and also young visitors to the Harold Cohen exhibition that I curated for the Whitney that is still on view, is them being completely turned off by the aesthetics of those softwares, which they absolutely hate, just because of the kind of blurry extrapolation, uncanny kind of feeling.
Christiane Paul, 2000s Tooling Era: Casey Reas, Golan Levin, Christiane Paul