Recreate Ben Laposky’s 1950s oscilloscope art. Tune waveform generators, watch Lissajous figures glow on a simulated CRT, and photograph them with long exposures.

Ken Knowlton’s 1963 Bell Labs animation language, brought back to life. Write BEFLIX scripts, render animations in 8 shades of gray, and compose films in the style of Stan VanDerBeek’s Poemfield series.

An interactive world map of early computer art. 36 locations, the machines that made the art, and the artists who programmed them. 1964–1969.

Watch classic plotter algorithms draw in real time. Nake, Nees, Molnar, Mohr, Bangert, and Whitney, recreated stroke by stroke.

Five centuries of algorithmic music, playable in your browser. From Mozart’s dice game to Brian Eno’s generative loops, each method is a different answer to the question: can a machine create music?

Help Lloyd Sumner pedal 28,478 miles across five continents, selling computer art prints and lecturing along the way. A quiz-powered adventure.