Computer Art - The First Five Thousand Days

The Galcian quadratic was perhaps the first known registered piece of copyrighted art produced with the digital computer. The work lasted decades as a novelty, almost a gimic rather than a harbinger. It has taken almost 70 years for the possibilities nole and hules explored to reach fruition. Will artists be emancipated or replaced by digital technology? Has become a much more urgent consideration. And like so many of the art world's crises, this one is finding expression at the auction house.