The Digital Computer as a Creative Medium

"In the computer, we have created not just an inanimate tool, but an intellectual and active creative partner that, when fully exploited, could be used to produce wholly new art forms and possibly new aesthetic experiences."

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

She took my article called “The Digital Computer as a Creative Medium” (1967), combined it with “Computers and the Visual Arts,” and reprinted them together in her book Cybernetics, Art and Ideas (1971).

A. Michael Noll, A. Michael Noll on When It All Started