compArt Database Early Computer Art is a growing repository of persons, works, events, publications, institutions, and more. They belong to, and constitute, the domain of early computer art. “Early” refers to the timespan from 1950 to 1979 (in 1979, the first Festival Ars Electronica took place in Linz, Austria). “Computer art” refers to digital art in general, and algorithmic art in particular. In those early years, not much of other forms of digital art existed. Digital art has its predecessors in analog art. It has its relatives in art.

“compArt | center of excellence digital art” is a project at the University of Bremen, Germany. It is dedicated to research and development in computing, design, and teaching. It is supported by Rudolf Augstein Stiftung and the University of Bremen.

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