# Generative Art Timeline

Source: https://timeline.lerandom.art

## Summary

Generative Art Timeline is an interactive web history of generative art, written primarily by Peter Bauman with contributions from Sasha Stiles and Vuk Ćosić. A dice-roll feature lands readers on one of its 1,147 moments and notes that Johann Philipp Kirnberger published a way to compose music with dice in 1757. The page links to sections titled "A History of Generative Art," "What Is Generative Art?" and "AI Art Timeline: From AARON to Learned Image Models."

## Article

Play art and technology history

Generative Art Timeline · by Peter Bauman

The chance door

Leave it to chance.

In 1757 Johann Philipp Kirnberger published a way to compose music with rolls of dice. Roll here and the Timeline deals you one of its 1,147 moments.

Era study, not the artwork

The dice are warm

?

Roll and a moment lands here.

The Timeline, counted

Every number is computed from the Timeline’s own data as this page loads.

Written primarily by Peter Bauman, with contributions from Sasha Stiles and Vuk Ćosić.

Read the history

Start with a question.

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A History of Generative Art

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What Is Generative Art?

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AI Art Timeline: From AARON to Learned Image Models