Thanks Simon....... for the interesting link. Have Fun.
Martin. On 3 Mar 2010, at 09:00, Simon Biggs wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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