SIGGRAPH 1986: A Retrospective
Art Show Administrator(s):
- Deborah Sokolove Colman
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- West Coast University, Los Angeles
Location:
Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Dates:
August 18th-22nd, 1986
Art Show Overview:
Since the mid-Sixties, computer art has been seen in museums and galleries world-wide, with several recent major exhibitions. However, the pieces shown were usually the artists’ newer works.
It is appropriate and pertinent at this year’s exhibition to show computer-aided art in the context of that which went before. The 1986 art show traces the development of computer art over the past twenty-five years through the work of artists who have been involved with it from its inception.
The 1986 art show is the fifth exhibition of fine art that ACM SIGGRAPH has sponsored in conjunction with its annual SIGGRAPH conference.
Patric D. Prince
Visual Proceedings:
View PDF: [SIGGRAPH 1986: A Retrospective]
Acknowledgements:
I thank Louise Ledeen for her support and advice, the Art Show committee for their billions and billions of donated hours, and the nucleus of dedicated volunteers who have worked diligently to produce this art show.
Artworks and Animation Materials Have Been Loaned by the Artists and:
Dr. Prof. Herbert W. Franke, Puppling, West Germany
John Landsdown, Computer Arts Society, London, England
Greg Mcfarlane, Evans and Sutherland, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah
Oliver Strimpel, Computer Museum, Boston, MassachusettsPost-Production Facilities Provided by
McDonnell-Douglas, Douglas Aircraft Company, Motion Picture/Video Production Division
Nathan SimmonsComputers and Support Provided by
Apollo Computers, Chelmsford, Massachusetts
AT&T, EPIC Center, Indianapolis, Indiana
Chuck Kozak, Aurora Systems, San Francisco, California
Commodore-Amiga, Los Gatos, California
Electronic Arts, San Mateo, California
Island Graphics, Sausalito, California
Kurta Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona
Lufthansa Airlines, West Germany
Newtek, Topeka, Kansas
Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, CaliforniaTechnical Assistance
Neal Handly
Robert E. Holzman
Exhibition Artworks:
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
#22 Picasso 2
Artist(s): [Palyka]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
2010: Jupiter Sequence
Artist(s): [Digital Productions, Inc.]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
3DV
Artist(s): [NYIT Computer Graphics Laboratory]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
A Brief Visual History of Computer Graphics
Artist(s): [Ellingson]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
A Computer Generated Ballet
Artist(s): [Noll]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
A Group of Four
Artist(s): [Mallary]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Installation]
A Spectrum of Graphic Solutions
Artist(s): [Sciulli, Arvo, and White]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Installation]
Abstraction
Artist(s): [Sorensen]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [3D & Sculpture]
After Mondrian
Artist(s): [Longson]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Ain't No Navel Forces in Dis'Dress
Artist(s): [Hushlak and Sinkey]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Installation]
Airborne
Artist(s): [Chen, Holzbach, and Ferdman]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [3D & Sculpture]
American Gothic Pair
Artist(s): [Knowlton]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Aneila 1974 - Aneya 1974 - Aneda 1975
Artist(s): [Barbadillo]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Anima 2
Artist(s): [Hackathorn, Parent, Meyers, and Csuri]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Arabesque
Artist(s): [Whitney]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Installation]
Arcade
Artist(s): [Sciulli, White, and Arvo]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Assorted Animation
Artist(s): [Beier, Chin, Chuang, Cohen, Entis, Folz, Gould, Palrang, Rosendahl, Venhaus, and Ward]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Installation]
Azimuth XX Series
Artist(s): [Lovejoy]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Beethoven's Sixth in C!G
Artist(s): [Gardner]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Big MOMA
Artist(s): [Schwartz]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Bio-Sensor
Artist(s): [Links]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Boomer Bytes
Artist(s): [Hoskins]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Brilliance
Artist(s): [Roberts]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Calculated Movements
Artist(s): [Cuba]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Canon
Artist(s): [Hays]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Carla's Island
Artist(s): [Max]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Catherine Wheel
Artist(s): [Allen]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
CC/400/P Series (3)
Artist(s): [Guest]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Centered Bubbles
Artist(s): [Palyka]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
CG 1972-1
Artist(s): [Mitsui]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Chernobyl
Artist(s): [Em]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Chernozen Fields Forever
Artist(s): [Hushlak]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Chicago- Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill
Artist(s): [Kovacs]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Circe's Window
Artist(s): [Bangert and Bangert]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Colin Wilson - Distorted in Triangles
Artist(s): [Smith and Neely]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Collage
Artist(s): [Mallary]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Computer Art
Artist(s): [Palyka]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Computer Composition with Lines
Artist(s): [Noll]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Computer, My Daughter and I
Artist(s): [Jankovič and Bertok]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Contribution to Ars ex Machina
Artist(s): [Nake]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Corridor
Artist(s): [Nees]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Cosmic Image: Transmigration
Artist(s): [Mitsui]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Cosmos Series 29.1 / 29.2
Artist(s): [Van Der Beek]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Crest
Artist(s): [Strand]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Crystal Dove
Artist(s): [Prueitt]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Cuadro Numero 192, 168
Artist(s): [Barbadillo]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Dance Ten
Artist(s): [Chase]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Installation]
Dangerous Illusions
Artist(s): [Gibson]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Daybreak
Artist(s): [Knowlton]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Deciphering Archetypes of Human Form
Artist(s): [Gartel]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Delano
Artist(s): [Smith and Neely]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Demo
Artist(s): [Information International Inc.]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Demo
Artist(s): [MAGI and Synthavision]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Demonstration of the MAGI Process for Computer Generated Films
Artist(s): [MAGI and Goldstein]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Diana 1
Artist(s): [Nessim]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Disappearing Man
Artist(s): [Van Der Beek]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Divided Sea
Artist(s): [Feder]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
DNA with Ethidium
Artist(s): [Max]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Installation]
Doctor Artist
Artist(s): [Pope]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Installation]
Dome Temple
Artist(s): [Sciulli, White, and Arvo]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Drakula
Artist(s): [Franke]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
DVI Series 1 #1
Artist(s): [Gerbarg]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Egg White and the Seven Pixels
Artist(s): [Em]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Eternal Braid
Artist(s): [Heller]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Eternal Braid
Artist(s): [Heller]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Euclidean Illusions
Artist(s): [Van Der Beek and Weinberg]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Examples of Current Computer Graphics Technology
Artist(s): [Catmull, Christiansen, Clark, Crow, Parke, and Tuong]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Farbraster 42
Artist(s): [Franke]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Farbraster 75
Artist(s): [Franke]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Fazes
Artist(s): [Kaprow]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Fissions -5
Artist(s): [Molnar]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Fragmented Anamorph
Artist(s): [Longson]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Fresnel Proposition (five plots)
Artist(s): [Pearson]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Frontiers of Chaos
Artist(s): [Jürgens, Peitgen, Richter, Saupe, and Prufer]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Gears
Artist(s): [Cranston/Csuri Productions]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Gegenläufiger Rhythmus mit einem Zeichen in 8 verschiedenen Längen
Artist(s): [Basset]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Geometric Perspectives
Artist(s): [Loss-Cutler]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
George Playing Pool
Artist(s): [Cranston/Csuri Productions and Ohio State University CGRG]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Glades
Artist(s): [Helmick]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Grafik 6
Artist(s): [Franke]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Grafik I
Artist(s): [Franke]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Grass
Artist(s): [DeFanti, Gillenson, Knemeyer, Csuri, and Moersdorff]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Grass: Series I
Artist(s): [Bangert and Bangert]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Gravel Stones
Artist(s): [Nees]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Group Theory Grid
Artist(s): [Longson]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Growth I - Mysterious Galaxy (1983)
Artist(s): [Kawaguchi]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Growth Ill - Origin
Artist(s): [Kawaguchi]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Growth ll- Morphogenesis
Artist(s): [Kawaguchi]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Gyro-Glyphics
Artist(s): [Gottfried]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
H32569
Artist(s): [Fetter]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Hieroglyphs
Artist(s): [Marcus]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Hills
Artist(s): [Helmick]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Installation]
His Master's Song
Artist(s): [Chen, Holzbach, and Ferdman]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Hitachi 3D Movie
Artist(s): [Digital Productions, Inc.]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Hommage to Paul Klee
Artist(s): [Nake]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Hummingbird
Artist(s): [Csuri]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Hummingbirds
Artist(s): [Csuri]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Hypertransformation 19
Artist(s): [Molnar]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Hypertransformations
Artist(s): [Molnar]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [Installation]
Inexplicable Synthetic Persona
Artist(s): [Gibson]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Interruptions - 20
Artist(s): [Molnar]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Interruptions -72
Artist(s): [Molnar]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Intervals / Intervalle
Artist(s): [Fischer]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Intuitive Ordering of Aqueous Humor Into a Likeness of Mount Rushmore
Artist(s): [Hushlak and Sinkey]
[SIGGRAPH 1986]
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Exhibition Writings and Presentations:
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Title:
Computer Aesthetics: New Art Experience, or The Seduction of the Masses
Author(s):
Category: Art Essay
Abstract Summary:
In the early twentieth century, Modern artists, notably Suprematists, Cuba-Futurists and Constructivists, rejected scientific perspective and descriptive art [1]. Although this dismissal of the world of appearances in art was never accepted by the general public, Modernism evolved from that rejection.
[View PDF]Title: Computer Graphics as Artistic Expression
Author(s):
Category: Art Essay
Abstract Summary:
Computer graphics has been in existence for more than twenty years. From the beginning, people experimented on ways to use the new medium – in addition to scientific, technical and commercial application – for artistic goals. Around 1965, Germans Frieder Nake and Georg Nees and the American, A. Michael Noll, strove for that goal; they were followed by individuals such as Kenneth Knowlton, the team of Charles Csuri and James Shaffer in America, and the Japanese Computer-Technique Group. All of them were represented in the large exhibition “Cybernetic Serendipity” in 1968 in London.
[View PDF]Title: TV NEEDS MTV LIKE MTV NEEDS COMPUTERS
Author(s):
Category: Art Essay
Abstract Summary:
J. S. Bach’s last unfinished work, THE ART OF THE FUGUE, is a magnificent network of simple theme and variations that are interwoven, transposed, inverted, and retrogressed. Some believe that Bach’s counterpoint, which consists of a complementarity of voice-parts, exhibits an affinity with algorithmic computer-program instructions and procedures. I agree, and I believe that a video counterpoint offers a special complementarity between its own musical and its visual voice-parts.
[View PDF]Title: Visions of Mind
Author(s):
Category: Art Essay
Abstract Summary:
Computer art is unfolding on the basis of scientific and engineering achievements of pioneering personalities, whose vision suggested that it should be possible to wrest something other than calculation speed and numeric precision from those crude and clumsy computers; something that could be turned into meaningful images. They set out to build dedicated machines to interpret an intuitive stroke with a pen or a snapshot taken through the lens of a camera. They designed displays that show more colors and change images faster than the human eye can distinguish. They devised software to generate pictures that appear just like photographs of reality. All of this has been accomplished within the short timespan of two or three decades. The history of computer graphics reads like a tremendous technical success story.
[View PDF]Title: Why it Isn't Art Yet
Author(s):
Category: Art Essay
Abstract Summary:
For twenty plus years, I have participated in “computer art” as a developer/ experimenter /inventor of languages/interfaces/techniques, as a collaborator/teacher/writer, and as a “computer artist.” As a result of all this, I finally feel like an established practitioner in an enterprise that doesn’t (at least not yet) exist.
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