Flip was not my student, rather an undergraduate assistant in the Department of Engineering Graphics at The Ohio State University in the early 1980's where I taught for a while. I helped him with his academic plan to graduate. According to Flip I introduced him to Chuck Csuri. It was the beginning of a life-long relationship. Read his insightful account of Chuck’s immense contribution, as an artist, and human being.

The pioneers of Generative Art are finally getting their due. This article features a couple contemporaries of mine: Charles Csuri, whom I had the privilege of knowing in the early 1980's, and Vera Molnar, who contributed to an exhibition of Computer Art/Computer Graphics I guest-curated in 1980. Both true OG's. It is so interesting to me to see the journeys these early pioneers took from those early days, though the ensuing decades to the present where they are receiving the acclaim they are rightly due.

Dr. Bill Kolomyjec ascribed to Computer Art a role that would shape society, and span the chasm between art and culture on the one hand, and science and technology on the other.