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Perhaps the First Computer-Controlled Aesthetic System (1953)


English cybernetician and psychologist Gordon Pask created MusiColour, a computer-controlled aesthetic system that "drove an array of lights that adapted to a musician's performance" (Mason, a computer in the art room. the origins of british computer arts 1950-1980 [2008] 6). This was one of the earliest examples of "computer art."