Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological phenomenon.” Courtesy Sotheby's It’s Geek Week at Sotheby’s—the auction house’s ...
Could a long-hidden graphic, Etude, from the early age of computers have the power to help reveal the origins of digital media and the way we interact with technology today? Not on its own, argued ...
“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...
works on paper, 17 unframed works on paper under matting; 5 unframed works on paper mounted to matting;1 unframed print on canvas, 3 unframed prints on transparent sheets, 1 unframed print on ...
Mark Wilson, “Untitled Gray Ground & Untitled Light Gray Ground” (1973) (click to enlarge) Personal computing may have begun in the 1980s but the history of computer art started much earlier during a ...
Modern day computer artist, [Amy Goodchild] surveys a history of Early Computer Art from the 1950s and 1960s. With so much attention presently focused on AI-generated artwork, we should remember that ...
How color became code -- Chromatic visions (400 B.C.-1969) -- Colors sacred and synthetic -- Classical and modern color: Plato through Goethe -- Industrial color: synthetics through day-glo ...
Joan Shogren graduated with her degree in chemistry from California’s San José State University (SJSU) in the early 1950s, and began working as a secretary in the department. It was there that she ...
Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What Was a Microfilm Plotter? -- Art Ex Machina -- Studies in Perception -- Poemfields -- Pixillation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index In 1959, the ...