Kathryn Farley, Generative Systems

Student Publications

Yony, Vol. 1, no. 1 (1974). Generative Systems, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Sonia Landy Sheridan fonds. 0501-125.

Yony, Vol. 1, no. 2 (1974). Generative Systems, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Sonia Landy Sheridan fonds. 0501-125.

Yony, Vol. 1, no. 3 (1975). Generative Systems, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Sonia Landy Sheridan fonds. 0501-125.

Yony, Vol. 1, no. 5 (1976). Generative Systems, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Sonia Landy Sheridan fonds. 0501-125.

Yony, Vol. 1, no. 1 (1974)

Professor Sheridan was awarded a Workshop grant by the National Endowment for the Arts for use during the 1974-1975 academic year. She applied the funds towards the creation of Yony, a publication containing work produced by students in Generative Systems classes, along with snippets of poetry, meditations on technology, images of classroom activities and commentary by faculty affiliated with the program. Each issue of the journal was unique and focused on a specific theme, question or method of creation. (1) For example, Volume 1, Number 4 of Yony (published in May 1975) focused on electrostatic imaging techniques (the production of graphics by electrical charge). (2)

(1) Craig Goldwyn, a graduate student who assisted Professor Sheridan and faculty member Keith Smith in editing Yony, provided information about the publication’s history in a personal interview that took place on March 26, 2007.

(2) To learn more about electrostatic printmaking and other processes Professor Sheridan and students explored in the classroom, please access the “Processes” section of this project.