The Le Random team of ⁠⁠thefunnyguys⁠⁠, Peter Bauman (⁠⁠Monk Antony⁠⁠) and Conrad House (⁠⁠Nemo Cake⁠⁠) spoke to special guest and acclaimed expert Georg Bak ⁠about the foundational significance of the 1950s in generative art history: The Analog Era. This episode corresponds with: ⁠⁠Generative Art Timeline: Chapter 3⁠ 10 Significant Modern Era Moments (Covered in the talk)⁠ 1951: MIT and the US Navy First Demonstrate the Whirlwind Computer ( + 1954: Whirlwind and SAGE Initiatives by US Military Funding Spark Computing Innovations) 1952: Love-Letters by Christopher Strachey + 1959: Theo Lutz produces Stochastic Texts 1952: Abstronic by Mary Ellen Bute + Electronic Abstractions by Ben Laposky 1952: Birth of Neo-Dada + John Cage’s Theater Piece No. 1 + 1957: Allan Kaprow Begins Making ‘Environments’ + 1950: Happenings 1953: Grace Murray Hopper Invents Programming Languages 1954: Victor Vasarely’s Yellow Manifesto Lays Generative Art's Conceptual Foundation 1956: CYSP by Nicolas Schöffer 1957: John Backus Releases FORTRAN 1957: Max Mathews Develops MUSIC I 1958: John Whitney Makes First Computer Animation for Film Vertigo