Podcast hosted by Gerard Fernandez of Vivid Gallery. Dr. Bill, a true generative art OG, shares his incredible journey from pioneering algorithmic art in the 1970s to embracing NFTs and Bitcoin Ordinals today. Tune in to hear stories from the early days of computer art, his experiences at Pixar, and how he continues to innovate across decades of digital evolution.

William Kolomyjec, aka Dr. Bill, is a generative art pioneer who has been creating algorithmic computer art since the early 1970s. He taught engineering and computer graphics at Ohio State University and worked at Pixar, developing educational products. In 2022, he began tokenizing his artwork on Ethereum and recently released a collection of Bitcoin Ordinals. Recorded on August 23, 2024, as a Space on X.

Spaces with Adrian Pocobelli, artist and broadcaster, to talk about my experience in digital art (since the 1970s) and the new Bitcoin Ordinals collection on Magic Eden.

Discussing creativity from generative art perspective, and art on Ordinals with Art On Internet, the movement for emerging art and technology.

Electric Op is the first major exhibition to examine how the Op art of the 1960s and 1970s related to not only industrial machinery, but also the new electronic media of the dawning post-industrial era. From 1973-1980 Dr. Bill Kolomyjec pioneered using the computer and a line plotter to generate aesthetic imagery. Around 1975 he produced a moiré pattern in this new genre. Kolomyjec's Moiré was recently acquired by the AKG Museum and will be included in this exhibit.

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.

Following Dr. Bill’s presentation at the Generative Art Summit in Berlin, Michael Spalter acquires 7 artworks from the artist’s historic original plotter art pieces. Namely Creature Tunnel, Boxes I & II, Concentric Square Function, Concentric Square Random, Woven Memories and Frog Pond.

From Camera to Artificial Intelligence 1954 – 2024. Art meets science – Generative Art Summit with the aim of fostering dialogue about the history of generative art across generations and the globe.

Explore Dr. Bill Kolomyjec's evolution from plotter art to blockchain. A solo show held at Goat Gallery in Toronto on April 27th 2024.

Collection of my contributions to Small Computers in the Arts (SCAN) symposiums from 1981 to 1997. These Proceedings are a time capsule of the era, showcasing the incredible work and innovations that took place during this period.

State-of-the-Art Computer Animation circa 1975-6. A collaboration between an Artist/ Graphic Design graduate student (Bill Kolomyjec) and 2 Computer Science students (grad student, Christopher Scussel and undergrad student, David Knight).

Exploring MidJourney in unique way, and marvelling at the results. Recorded live on Mar 1, 2023

Dr. Bill Turns 75 on November 12, 2022.

Dr. Bill takes the audience of an NFT Art event in Toronto on the generative art journey, from the 70’s until now.

Bear jokes and Generative Art NFTs chat with Michael Rippe at the Morning Squeeze space.

I visit the DOJO of The Sensei to chat about how it was creating computer art in the 70’s and all things NFTs, Art and Life.

I made a guest appearance on this Abstract Art NFTs Twitter Space hosted by abstract artist Alisha Anglin. We talk about my journey as a computer artist, and all things generative / abstract art and NFTs.

One of my early artworks, Hypnotic Squares, was featured in this Generative Artistry series of interactive tutorials exploring ideas and techniques used in Generative Art.

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Feb 1 - Mar 16, 1980. Original exhibition description from 1980: Computer Aided Graphics is an exhibit featuring the medium of computer graphics. It is the youngest medium to challenge traditional media since photography. Dr. Herbert W. Franke, author of one of the most significant books on the subject entitled Computer Art – Computer Graphics, states that it was in the year 1965 that aesthetic Computer Graphics "became more generally known". In that year there were two exhibitions of computer graphics as aesthetic imagery…

We had a great conversation about the origins of generative art, and my journey as a pioneer of the form in the early 70’s to present day.

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, through 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.

An article I wrote in September 1975, published in “Artist and Computer” book, edited by Ruth Leavitt.

Concept behind ‘shotgun’ art approaches 1940s abstract expressionism.

An interesting generative art collection by Alex Rudloff that was influenced by me and other OGs of Generative Art.

My artwork will be exhibited on digital screens at this NFT Art gathering in Toronto on March 26, 2022.