A private collection of art made with systems

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Güerita Art connects the story of mid-20th century computer art to 21st century contemporary art created using code, generative algorithms, and artificial intelligence. The collection brings together artworks, archival material, sound + music, and original scholarship to show how computation became an artistic medium.

Hy Hirsh, Untitled [Color Abstraction], circa 1950: turquoise loops, a blue disk, magenta bands and a white diagonal waveform against black.
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Hy HirshUntitled [Color Abstraction], c. 1950

Selected works

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Computer Technique Group (CTG), Running Cola is Africa (1968): two sequences of black contours transform a runner into a Coca-Cola bottle and then Africa.
1968Computer Technique Group (CTG)Running Cola is AfricaLithograph print
Charles Csuri, Four BSpline Men (1965): four elongated human forms built from layered, distorted black contour lines across white paper.
1965Charles CsuriFour BSpline MenComputer-generated ink plotter drawing
Charles Csuri and James Shaffer, Random War (1967): hundreds of red and black toy-soldier outlines scattered across a white field in standing, aiming, falling and prone poses.
1967Charles CsuriRandom WarTwo-color lithograph on paper

Scholarship & conversations

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Drawing with Electricity: Who Really Made the First Oscilloscope Art?

Hy Hirsh, Norman McLaren, Mary Ellen Bute, Ben Laposky, and revising the prehistory of computer art