The Digital Pioneers collection is mainly made up of works that were in the collection of the Computer Arts Society. Most of these were works on paper, although they were mainly produced using generative techniques on the computers of the time such as mainframes. In many cases the works pre-date the work of Evans and Sutherland that led to the first real-time interaction with computers via CRT.
Go to http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/ for the fuller story. best Simon Simon Biggs [email protected] [email protected] Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ From: Rob Myers <[email protected]> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:00:37 +0000 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Digital Pioneers. On 02/03/10 21:34, Jim Andrews wrote: > is most of the work generative? in other words, is it generated from > programming the artist wrote? > > I don't know how many technicians will have been involved, but given the time period covered it's almost a given that most of the art would be produced by custom software. Much of the work is abstract and rule-based but some of the most intriguing does deal with the human figure or recognisable points of reference. > was there any principle of selection in the exhibit other than a temporal > one, ie, work from the 50's through 70's? > The show is in the print rooms at the V&A, so the works exhibited are all prints rather than screen-based or 3D. The CAS collection did include some sculpture, for example, so concentrating on prints is a selection criterion. - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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