Amy Goodchild published this cool article on early computer art (50s and 60s). I always show these artworks and experiments to my students because, after all these years, they still feel amazingly fresh and interesting.
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Computer Art pioneers: Joan Shogren
I’ve been studying early Computer Art quite a lot in the past ten years, but I just discovered a new artist I never came across before. Click here for the story of Joan Shogren, a secretary who, back in 1963 (so before Micheal A. Noll and Frieder Nake, but also before Sol Lewitt’s conceptual wall drawings based on instructions), “suggested that computers should be able to ‘design a picture’“.
Joan’s artworks were exhibited two years before the famous “Generative Computergrafik” exhibition at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart in 1965, which is generally considered to be the very first computer art public show.
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The computer is like a playground of the absurd
“The computer became more like a playground of the absurd. I wanted to play and have a sense of fun. This offered me the possibility of accident to discover the art. It’s still my best prospect of creating something that has the feeling and aura of humanity.”
Charles Csuri, pioneer of computer art and computer graphics, has passed away at age 99.
SCAM: Starving Computer Artists Market
“Humorous CG short from 1992, poking fun at many of the clichés of computer graphics at the time. Produced at the New York Institute of Technology Fine Arts Center. ”
1992? Seriously?
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