Generative Art - When programmers turn into artists When programmers get on to their artistic strokes through coding, Generative Art is the result. Wikipedia describes Generative Art as Generative art refers to art that in whole or in part has been created with the use of an autonomous system. Generative Art is often used to refer to computer generated artwork that is algorithmically determined. There are many websites that would allow you make amazing generative art on a canvas algorithmically programmed by the programmers.