“I’m starting to accept that the 1995-2020 period didn’t happen, and that generative art emerged out of nothingness in 2020 after being dormant for 40-50 years. People keep telling me, so it must be true.”
– Digital artist
Marius Watz, decrying widespread amnesia in this current moment of generative (crypto) art. A big reason is “very bad discoverability,”
notes fellow aughties innovator
Karsten Schmidt. Due to link rot and software obsolescence, most works done in Director, Flash, Processing, and Java in that era are “GONE.”
