Computer art
'Computer art' is the generation of aesthetic objects with the aid of software on a digital computer. Its history started in 1965. Three exhibitions took place that year, which are acknowledged as first public presentations of digital art: Georg Nees at the Studiengalerie of the University of Stuttgart (5-19 February 1965); A. Michael Noll and Bela Julesz at Howard Wise Gallery, New York (6-24 April 1965); Frieder Nake and Georg Nees at Galerie Wendelin Niedlich, Stuttgart (5-26 November 1965)... The picture changes slightly, when we closely look at the time when these researcher-artists started their experiments in algorithmic art: Noll in 1962, Nake in 1963, Nees in 1964. All these dates refer to "digital" art and computers. Ben F. Laposky had started to work with analogue equipment in 1952. Herbert W. Franke followed in Austria in 1959, and Kurd Alsleben in Hamburg around 1960."
– Frieder Nake
Artists, Events
- Kurd Alsleben
- Radu Bagdasar
- Horst Bartnig
- Juraj Bartusz
- Otto Beckmann
- Max Bense
- Vladimir Bonačić
- Martijn van Boven
- Ileana Bratu
- Zdeňka Čechová
- Savel Cheptea
- Harold Cohen
- Compos 68
- Computer and Art
- Computer Art in ČSSR and in the World
- Computer grafik
- Computer Graphic
- Computer Graphics Art (Prague, 1982)
- Computer Graphics in Fine Arts
- Computerkunst - On the Eve of Tomorrow
- Computers and Automation
- Waldemar Cordeiro
- Charles Csuri
- Cybernetic Serendipity
- Digital Pioneers
- Stanisław Dróżdż
- Sherban Epuré
- Peter Foldes
- Helmar Frank
- Herbert W. Franke
- Roland K. Fuchshuber
- Aldo Giorgini
- Karl Otto Götz
- John Halas
- Desmond Paul Henry
- Grace C. Hertlein
- Jiří Hůla
- Ideas Before Their Time
- Mihai Jalobeanu
- Jozef Jankovič
- Jankovič - Graphics
- Béla Julesz
- Hiroshi Kawano
- Miroslav Klivar
- Ken Knowlton
- Zenon Kulpa
- Ben F. Laposky
- Radomír Leszczynski
- Dominic Lopes
- Solomon Marcus
- Viktor Ernest Maşek
- Florin Maxa
- Leslie Mezei
- Petar Milojević
- Manfred Mohr
- Abraham Moles
- Vera Molnár
- Ivan Moscovich
- Motif Edition
- Mihai Nadin
- Frieder Nake
- Georg Nees
- New Tendencies
- A. Michael Noll
- Jan Pamuła
- Cord Passow
- Alexandru Patatics
- Sergej Pavlin
- Rosen Petkov
- SCAS
- Kubo Pišek
- Programmierter Zufall - Computergrafik
- Vladan Radovanović
- Zoran Radović
- Lillian F. Schwartz
- Martin Šperka
- Alan Sutcliffe
- Zdeněk Sýkora
- Yasunao Tone
- Jiří Valoch
- Roman Verostko
- Visions of the Present
- Tamás Waliczky
- Peter Weibel
- Teresa Wennberg
- Ryszard Winiarski
- XCoAx
- Gerard Zieliński
- Stanislav Zippe
Resources
- Database of Digital Art, founded by Frieder Nake
- The Recode Project, An active archive of computer art. A community-driven effort to preserve computer art by translating it into a modern programming language (Processing).
- Early beginnings of (digital) computer art, maintained by Christoph Klütsch
- Copper Giloth, Lynn Pocock-Williams, "A Selected Chronology of Computer Art: Exhibitions, Publications, and Technology", 1990. [1]
- How Computer-Generated Animations Were Made, Circa 1964 - AT&T Archives
Literature
- Thomas Dreher, Geschichte der Computerkunst, 2012. (German)
- History of Computer Art, 2014.
- Beau Sievers, "Irony & Utopia: History of Computer Art", a course at Bruce High Quality Foundation University. Spring and summer sessions, 2010.
- Bibliography compiled by Christoph Kluetsch
- Publications on computer art at Monoskop Log
See also
- Computer art in CEE, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria.
- Further bibliography.
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