Introduction
Sheridan founded Generative Systems at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1970. Syllabi, assignments and classroom records make the teaching of emerging communications technologies part of the historical evidence for art-and-technology practice.
RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Generative Systems: work and context
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-02
Work, material and process
The archival study draws on lesson plans, administrative records, student responses, photographs and interviews to examine the programme’s organisation. Generative Systems names a pedagogical and experimental framework, not a course in today’s generative-AI software.
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Historical significance and questions
Editorial interpretation: technology enters art history through teaching, shared equipment and student experiments as well as canonical works. These records illuminate access to experimentation, the transmission of knowledge and the uneven survival of evidence.
Section sources: Generative Systems
Sources for this account
Cited artist or institutional description and date read; the physical original was not examined and the system was not reconstructed.
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Continue with a comparative question
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Software exhibition, Jewish Museum, New York.
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Computer Arts Society.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 1970 · Historical date recorded for the source: 1970
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Original sources & further reading
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Provenance, translation & verification
Archive node #231 · Exhibition and institutional context
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Date as recorded: 1970
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Generative Systems
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