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A Short History of Digital Art. Digital Media & Virtual Culture 10/31/07. Sketchpad – early illustration program - 1963. Judith Schaechter – detail from Christina’s World (digital print) - 2007. Venus of Wilendorf. Tektronic plotter.
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A Short History of Digital Art Digital Media & Virtual Culture 10/31/07
Judith Schaechter – detail from Christina’s World (digital print) - 2007
Ben Laposky – “electronic abstraction” – 1950 (Oscillon # 4)
Collette and Charles Bangert – Large Landscape – 1970 http://www.atariarchives.org/artist/sec5.php
Piet Mondrian – Composition with Lines - 1917 Michael Noll – Computer Composition with Lines - 1965
Harold Cohen with “Aaron” – painting machine http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com/aaron/history.html
MANUAL – A Constructed Forest – 1993 http://www.art.uh.edu/dif/manual/cf.html
Michael Rees – Putto – 2003 http://home.earthlink.net/~dadaloplop/michael_rees.html
Cybernetic Serendipity • Exhibits in the show are either produced with a cybernetic device (computer) or are cybernetic devices in themselves. They react to something in the environment, either human or machine, and in response produce either sound, light or movement… [Horace] Walpole used the term serendipity to describe the faculty of making happy chance discoveries. Through the use of cybernetic devices to make graphics, film and poems, as well as other randomising machines which interact with the spectator, many happy discoveries were made. Hence the title of this show.