A 1971 clip of Leslie Mezei's 'Samplart' shows generative art's controlled-randomness roots
Merzmensch · x · 2026-10-10
A reshared 1971 clip of Leslie Mezei's Samplart shows points and lines moved by random numbers — "randomness with control," programmed disorder from an obedient tool, set to electronic music as a new art form.
Quoted alongside is Mezei's 1968 question of whether the museum would become an "electronic control center" beaming electronically generated images into the world — strikingly prescient in today's generative AI era.
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