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Reveling at the Intersection of Art & Technology.
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Vera Molnár in 1990: "…perhaps around '81, I said to myself, ‘Does the beauty of this drawing come from this magic square?’ I'm not so sure. So I tried to manipulate this using computers, only instead of following the order indicated by Dürer's magic square, I went at random." From Molnar by LR Ways Productions, 1990.
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Susan Kare in 1983: "If you're an artist, & you're skilled with media, this is a new medium that offers great control... There's a thousand little dots [per] half an inch and you have the capacity, either real or magnified, to turn off & on each one of those dots..."
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Another rare exhibition video, showing Tendencije 4 (1968-69), an early (& critically important) Digital Art exhibition held in cold war era Zagreb. The second scene below shows Ken Knowlton & Leon D. Harmon's Studies in Perception series (1966-69), made on Bell Labs' IBM 7094.
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Digital Einstein by Herbert W. Franke, 1973 Created in 1973 at Siemens, the work algorithmically subjects a portrait of Einstein to an iterative process of dissolution — a potent reflection of the implications of relativity. Seen below in exhibition at New Tendencies 5, 1973.
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Early Conversational Artificial Intelligence in 1979 "You’d sit in a leather Eames chair in the lab’s soundproof “media room” and point your hand at the room’s wall-sized rear-projection screen...you could say “Put a yellow circle there,” and the computer would obey. If you didn’t specify where the circle should go, the computer would ask “Where?” and wait for you to point and say “There!” Schmandt says it was one of the two first conversational systems ever written." From MIT Tech Review 2019's 'The geek.'
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Frieder Nake making computer art in 1966 with punch cards on a ER-56 mainframe computer.
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