As theorist and historian Nicholas Lambert rightly points out, computer art was “heavily constrained by the available graphics…

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As theorist and historian Nicholas Lambert rightly points out, computer art was “heavily constrained by the available graphics technology”; the simple lines and abstract shapes were not “a self-imposed artistic limitation,” but represented a “boundary to image structure.”

Grant D. Taylor. When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.