Ken Knowlton

And they submitted it to the E.A.T. section of the exhibition The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, and there's a form you had to fill out and it said artist and engineer on it, and they flipped a coin to decide who was going to be who, which I think is like a nice image of this conundrum and how long it has been standing.

Michael Connor, Frieze Week New York: Rhizome, MoMI, Karyn Nakamura

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