These Stunning A.I. Tools Are About to Change the Art World

Algorithmic art is nothing new, but in its early days, it didn't hold a candle to more human art forms. The earliest known generative computergraphik, created by German mathematician and "father of computer art" Georg Nees in the mid-1960s, mostly consisted of black-and-white ink drawings of lines and polygons. The first computer-generated musical composition, Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson's Illiac Suite for String Quartet, came even earlier in 1957. Both efforts were highly experimental and aimed at academic audiences. And both artistic outputs ring with the rigidity of the strict, rudimentary rules imposed in their algorithms.