Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated art has been garnering significant media attention in recent years, but where exactly does the term come from and when exactly did the movement begin? The prehistory of today’s AI art moment could be told in many ways. A lineage can no doubt be drawn between computer art pioneers like Frieder Nake and Vera Molnár, and today’s AI artists like Helena Sarin and Mario Klingemann. But when these artists themselves discuss their inspirations they are just as likely to list mathematicians and engineers as they are their computer art antecedents (Klingemann mentions Marvin Minsky in his interview with Electric Artefacts).