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Kate Vass Galerie
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Kate Vass Galerie is the company blog at katevassgalerie.com, writing about design and culture. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Aaron: AI Art Generator from 1973”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this gallery blog for its posts on generative and plotter art, especially Harold Cohen's AARON program and artists such as Kjetil Golid. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kate Vass Galerie is a Swiss art gallery and advisory specialising in generative art, AI, blockchain and new media. Offering primary market representation, curatorial services, collection management and art advisory for artists and collectors worldwide.
Most-linked posts?
- Aaron: AI Art Generator from 19732 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-09-24
What Hacker News says?
Harold Cohen was a British painter in the ‘60s who ended up in the Stanford AI lab in 1971, using plotters (and initially turtle robots) to draw images created by a chunk of code he called AARON. There are some bits of that code - particularly the ‘freehand line algorithm’ and its collision detection allowing lines to meet without crossing - that I can’t really understand how they worked on such primitive hardware &…
Comment linking /blog/harold-cohen-aaron-computer-art
on “So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?”Submitted Aaron: AI Art Generator from 1973 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis article didn't mention but we shouldn't forget AARON the AI art generator from 1973 by Harold Cohen https://www.katevassgalerie.com/blog/harold-cohen-aaron-comp... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35452258 ). This was peak generative art from its time IMO. Was available as a screensaver for Windows 98 (can still download from archive.org and works on windows 10). https://www.kurzweilcyberart.com/aaron/sta…
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on “What Is Generative Art? (2022)”Submitted Fine art print – crypto art as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSatisfying to see Kjetil Golid’s work mentioned — one of my favorite artists! https://www.katevassgalerie.com/kjetil-golid
Comment linking /kjetil-golid
on “The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (2020)”I had the version published by Raymond Kurzweil as a secreen saver for Windows 98. It could generate painting of people in different poses and also plants. It didn't create everything we see in Harold's own gallery. I had a hard time finding some sample images online. Found a working version of the software itself [4] [0]: https://www.kurzweilai.net/harold-cohen-in-memoriam [1]: https://computerhistory.org/blog/haro…
Comment linking /blog/harold-cohen-aaron-computer-art
on “Aaron the Cybernetic Artist by Harold Cohen”