PAINTING BY NUMBERS: THE ART OF LILLIAN SCHWARTZ
Jul 11, 2013 · Between 1968 and 2002, Schwartz created computer-mediated films, videos, optical effects, art-historical analyses, and animations at Bell’s Acoustical and Behavioral Research Center, producing seminal works of early computer art.But internally her name receded: Unknown to company administrators, she was an unpaid “resident visitor” at ...
COMPUTER SCULPTURE - Artforum
COMPUTER SCULPTURE. By Robert Mallary. SCULPTURE IS AN EXTREMELY PHYSICAL art dependent on the skilled manipulation of materials, tools and technical procedures for its realization. Historically the techniques of sculpture have reflected the technological level and character of the society in which the sculptor lived and worked.
BINARY PLASTIC LANGUAGE - Artforum
In the first room of the exhibition “Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, visitors are confronted by I.B.M. Disc Pack, a large grisaille painting of six thin, industrial-looking disks stacked on a spindle. As the title indicates, this 1965 work by Lowell Nesbitt—which evidences Pop art ...
HAROLD COHEN (1928–2016) - artforum.com
May 9, 2016 · Share. William Grimes reports in the New York Times_ that the painter Harold Cohen, who developed one of the first computer software programs for making art, died on April 27 at his home in California. Cohen was born in 1928 in London and enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he graduated in 1951, and then spent a year in Rome on a ...
THE WARHOL FILES: ANDY WARHOL’S LONG-LOST COMPUTER …
Intros were the computer-nerd version of graffiti. As Linus Walleij of the legendary computer crew Triad has pointed out, cracker crews “portrayed themselves as organizations as old and powerful as the Freemasons, and their art was just as serious-looking. . . . Intros are graffiti and both intros and graffiti are art.
WEB WORK: A HISTORY OF INTERNET ART - Artforum
WEB WORK: A HISTORY OF INTERNET ART. By Rachel Greene. THE TERM “NET.ART” is less a coinage than an accident, the result of a software glitch that occurred in December 1995, when Slovenian artist Vuk Cosic opened an anonymous e-mail only to find it had been mangled in transmission. Amid a morass of alphanumeric gibberish, Cosic could make ...
DIGITAL DIVIDE: CONTEMPORARY ART AND NEW MEDIA - Artforum
In fact, the most prevalent trends in contemporary art since the ’90s seem united in their apparent eschewal of the digital and the virtual. Performance art, social practice, assemblage-based sculpture, painting on canvas, the “archival impulse,” analog film, and the fascination with modernist design and architecture: At first glance ...
ZSOFI VALYI-NAGY ON THE LEGACY OF VERA MOLNAR - Artforum
Valyi-Nagy discusses Molnar’s relationship to the computer as a tool, the impact on Molnar of experiencing a computer screen for the first time in the early 1970s, and the idea of “unimaginable images.”. “Speak to the Eye,” a major exhibition of Molnar’s work, is on view at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, through August 26. Artforum Inbox.
Robert Whitman Dead at 8 - Artforum
Jan 24, 2024 · Robert Whitman on the set of his multimedia installation American Moon at Pace Gallery, New York, January 16, 2023. Photo: George Etheredge. Multimedia and performance artist Robert Whitman, whose incendiary Happenings lit up the downtown New York art scene of the 1960s, died at his home in Warwick, New York, on January 19. He was eighty-eight.
A THEORY OF EVERYTHING: MEDITATIONS ON TOTAL CHAOS
Mar 7, 1989 · It follows that chaos theorists would adopt a reverent attitude to the new technology. Peitgen and Richter’s rhetoric is telling: “Computers—generally suspected of impressing total order and discipline on every facet of life—have made possible this better understanding of harmony and chaos.””.