Catalogue from this survey exhibition of early computer art, from the Franke Collection at the Kunsthalle Bremen. Recommended for anyone wanting to get an overview of the work of early pioneers of computer art, pre 1979. Well illustrated and features an historical timeline featuring key moments in the development of computer art. Paul Coldwell has reviewed this publication for Print Quarterly to appear in spring.
Archive for January, 2008
Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print
January 18-April 3, 2008
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
U.S.A.
This groundbreaking new exhibition examines the intersection of
digital technology and the graphic arts. Imaging by Numbers surveys
the use of computers in printmaking and drawing through approximately
60 works created by nearly 40 North American and European artists
from the 1950s to the present. The exhibition focuses on artists who
wrote their own computer code or collaborated with computer
engineers. Beginning with photographs of electronic waveforms by Ben
Laposky and Herbert Franke, Imaging by Numbers includes drawings made
with plotter printers by the likes of Manfred Mohr and Edward Zajec,
explorations of virtual worlds composed with 3-D imaging software by
David Em, and works created with inventive modifications and
combinations of traditional and digital printing techniques by such
artists as Lane Hall and Roman Verostko. Contemporary artists writing
their own computer programs or altering existing software – Joshua
Davis and C.E.B. Reas, for example – are also represented.
Imaging by Numbers is curated by Block Museum senior curator Debora
Wood and artist Paul Hertz.
Information about the show is here:
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/current/imaging.html
