COMPUTER SCULPTURE - Artforum
But the computer is more than a single item in an expanding inventory of art and technology paraphernalia. All of these technologies are promising but the computer is portentous, because for the first time the sculptor has access to a tool which can be used not only for executing a work of art, but conceiving one as well.
Lillian Schwartz Dies at 97 - artforum.com
2024年10月17日 · In 1992, with her artist son Laurens (who survives her, along with another son, Jeffrey), she coauthored The Computer Artist’s Handbook, a volume aimed at making the production of computer art accessible to laypeople, newly empowered by the wide availability of personal computers. She worked as a consultant to various companies, including ...
BINARY PLASTIC LANGUAGE - Artforum
An overemphasis on the how of computer art tends to distract us from the why. Historically, critics have not been kind to computer art, dismissing its early exhibitions as “popular sideshows” (John Canaday in the New York Times) and the works themselves as “exceedingly poor and uninspiring” (Robert E. Mueller in Art in America). Even ...
PAINTING BY NUMBERS: THE ART OF LILLIAN SCHWARTZ
2013年7月11日 · 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 ...
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.
DIGITAL DIVIDE: CONTEMPORARY ART AND NEW MEDIA - Artforum
Claire Bishop is associate professor in the Ph.D. program in art history at CUNY Graduate Center, New York. NOTES. 1. Even traditional forms of art, like painting, are supported by a digital apparatus: PDFs sent to the press or to collectors, JPEGS on gallery websites, etc. 2. I will leave aside painting for the moment.
HAROLD COHEN (1928–2016) - artforum.com
2016年5月9日 · 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 fellowship.
WEB WORK: A HISTORY OF INTERNET ART - Artforum
Among the more memorable sites that went up in those years were äda’web, Irational.org, and Jodi.org. Äda’web curator Benjamin Weil (recently appointed curator of media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [see Jana, p. 166]), who had been active in the art world before founding äda with John Borthwick in 1994, took a foundry approach to Web-based art: Weil …
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.
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS IN NEW YORK NAMES NEW PROVOST …
2018年8月20日 · In addition, Carol Rusche Bentel, a partner at the Long Island–based firm Bentel & Bentel Architects/Planners, was tapped as the new chair of the bachelor of fine arts program’s interior design department; illustrator Jimmy Calhoun has been named the chair of the bachelor of fine arts program’s computer art, computer animation, and visual ...