I got to interact with the Pompidou installation, mid 90s, you could select your favorite rendering via a foot switch (one for each screen) and the Connection M

I got to interact with the Pompidou installation, mid 90s, you could select your favorite rendering via a foot switch (one for each screen) and the Connection Machine would then render a new set of image based / derived from your choice. It was presented as images created by a "genetic algorithm". Having a super computer in an art museum was a really powerful statement. (But I was probably more impressed by the whole thing that by the resulting generated images) It was a brief period at Pompidou when they would, regularly, present computer based works, at the frontier between art and science. (The series was called "revue virtuelle", virtual review)