History of Computer Art

From oscillograms to interactive media

• Computer art predecessors
  • Conceptual art, geometric abstraction
  • Experimantal film, non-narrative film, visual music
  • Oskar Fischinger, Hans Richter, Norman McLaren, Mary Ellen Bute
• Analog art
  • Analog computer, oscilloscope, plotter
  • Computer graphics & visualization
  • Computer animation, scanimate, video art
  • Ben Laposky, John Whitney
• Digital art
  • Post-conceptual art, systems art
  • Herbert W. Franke, A. Michael Noll, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, Ken Knowlton
  • 9 Evenings, E.A.T., Billy Klüver, Fred Waldhauer, Robert Rauschenberg
  • Cybernetic serendipity, Jasia Reichardt
  • AARON, Harold Cohen
  • Vera Molnár, Ivan Moscovich, Carles Csuri, Roman Verostko, Manfred Mohr
  • Leonardo, Ars Electronica
  • Intermedia, postdigital, software studies

Discussion

• 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 – Rollager – WebRollage

 

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