The Le Random team of thefunnyguys, Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) and Conrad House (Nemo Cake) spoke to special guest Marius Watz about the ancient roots of generative art, the Pre-Modern Era.

This episode corresponds with:

• Generative Art Timeline: Chapter 1
• Article: Timeline Chapter 1's Ten Top Moments

10 Significant Pre-Modern Era Moments (Covered in the talk)

1. Blombos Cave Drawing (70,000 BCE)
2. I Ching Introduces Binary Concept (1,000 BCE)
   
3. Euclid’s Elements (300 BCE) 
4. Al-Khwārizmī’s Writes Concerning the Hindu Art of Reckoning (820 CE)
5. Albrecht Dürer Creates Engraving Melencolia I (1515)
6. Gottfried Leibniz Pioneers Computational Thinking (1666)
7. Johann Philip Kirnberger’s Musical Dice game (1757)
8. Joseph-Marie Jacquard Invents the Jacquard Loom (1804)
9. Nicéphore Niépce Produces First Permanent Photograph (1826)
10. Ada Lovelace Becomes First Computer Programmer (1843)