History of Computer Art

From oscillograms to interactive media

• Computer art predecessors
  • Conceptual art and geometric abstraction
  • Abstract animation
  • Early multimedia
• Analog art
  • Hardware aesthetics
  • Oscillograms and plotter art
  • Computer graphics & visualization
  • Real-time animation, scanimation
• Digital art
  • Algorithmic abstraction
  • Generative aesthetics
  • Connections between artists and engineers
  • Software studies

Resources

• Software Takes Command (Lev Manovich)
• The Secret Mathematicians (Marcus du Sautoy)
• Computer Art at the V&A (Honor Beddard)
• Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts (Hannah B Higgins & Douglas Kahn)
• Behind the Silicon Curtain: Computer Art in the Eastern Bloc (Todor Bozhinov)
• The Striking Collages of Jiří Kolář (Zanna Jezek)

Assignment

Computer-aided rollage

Collage – EFX – Grandphics – JCollage – Rollage – WebRollage

Gallery of computer-aided rollage  »