Le Random launches living timeline of generative art with 1,147 moments back to 71,000 BCE

drscotthawley · x · 2026-10-07

Le Random has published "The Living Timeline," billed as the most complete history of generative art ever assembled, spanning 1,147 moments from 71,000 BCE to 2025 and covering 1,274 people.

Six ways to browse: chronological view, an "Ideas" map across 23 subject regions, 40 movement threads, people, machines, and a self-running Tour mode
Written primarily by Peter Bauman with contributions from Sasha Stiles and Vuk Ćosić; all numbers are computed live from the dataset, including a dice-roll feature honoring Kirnberger's 1757 musical dice game
Widely shared by generative art community figures like Gene Kogan

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