Visual Intelligence: The First Decade of Computer Art
Computer Graphics and Applications, July 1985, v. 5, no. 6, pp. 33-45
The article discusses the hisory of the first decade of computer art from 1967 until 1977, and mentions the first computer art shows held in 1965 not by artists but by scientists, the work of the first computer artists, mostly constructivists born between the world wars. It explains the necessity of collaborations between artists, scientists, and engineers, and gives an in depth timeline of the development of computer technology and the art it facilitated.
ITEM 1985.115 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
AARON – Hiroshi Kawano
Sine Wave Man – Harold Cohen
Sine Wave Man – Charles A. Csuri
Studies Perception I – James Shaffer
Studies Perception I – Kenneth C. Knowlton
Plons (Splash) – Leon Harmon
Portrait ALbert Einstein – Peter Struychen
P 159 A – Herbert W. Franke
Matrix Multiplications – Manfred Mohr
Painting Self Portrait – Frieder Nake
Kubus – Duane Palyka
Scientists Hand at 3M – Klaus Basset
Prostor – Sonia Landy Sheridan
LWII82 – Edvard Zajec
Bridget Riley's Painting "Currents" – Harold Cohen
Sculpture – A. Michael Noll
George Nees