Digital Art History.1

plotter art and early computer animation

1. 1 University of Jyväskylä Feburary 18, 19 2013 TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES

2. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 What is digital art exactly? How is it currently defined? How has it been defined? Where did it come from? How has its focus and output changed over time? How is it positioned in contemporary culture?

3. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process. Since the 1970s, various names have been used to describe the process including computer art and multimedia art, and digital art is itself placed under the larger umbrella term new media art . -- Wikipedia Entry

4. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Art game Computer art scene Computer music Cyberarts Digital illustration Digital imaging Digital painting Digital photography Digital poetry Dynamic Painting Electronic music Evolutionary art Fractal art Generative art Generative music Generative art Generative music Immersion (virtual reality) Interactive art Motion graphics Music visualization Photo manipulation Pixel art Render art Software art Systems art Textures Tradigital art Via Art Types of Digital Art

5. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 mainframe personal computing mobile devices PLATFORMS WWW ARPANET to INTERNET

6. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 PREHISTORY (The Swingin ’ Sixties) (AND A HALF THE SEVENTIES)

7. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 1

8. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 INVENTIONS 1963 MOUSE ( Englebart ) BEFLIX (Knowlton) VIDEO DISK 1962 SKETCHPAD (Sutherland) SPACEWAR. First Computer Game LED 1972 WORDPROCESSOER (WordStar) ODYSSEY GAME CONSULE (Magnavox) 1964 RAND TABLET MOOG SYNTHESIZER 1969 UNIX BARCODE SCANNER 1968 DYNABOOK RAM ( Robert Dennard ) FIRST COMPUTER WITH INTEGRATED CIRCUITS ARPANET 1960 LASER 1965 COMPACT DISK 1970 FLOPPY DISK 1971 DOT-MATRIX PRINTER LCD VIDEO CASSETTE MICROPROCESSOR 1973 ETHERNET XEROX ALTO (PC) 1975 LASER PRINTER

9. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 EXHIBITIONS 1971 MANFRED MOHR. Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris. 1965 GENERATIVE COMPUTERGRAFIK. Stuttgart. COMPUTER-GENERATED PICTURES. New York COMPUTERGRAFIK. Stuttgart . 1968 CYBERNETIC SERENDIPITY. London . SOME MORE BEGINNINGS. New York.

10. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 ARTISTS 1965 FRIEDER NAKE 1963 MICHAEL NOLL LILLIAN SCHWARTZ 1969 MANFRED MOHR 1965 JOHN WHITNEY 1968 CHARLES CSURI GEORGE NEES TONY PRITCHETT 1975 HERBERT FRANKE 1971 EDWARD ZAJEC 1973 MARK WILSON 1974 VERA MOLNAR

11. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 PREHISTORY GRAPHICS & MOTION GRAPHICS

12. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 1962: SKETCHPAD (Ivan Sutherland) DEMO COMUTER GRAPHICS (Hardware/Software) Features : pop -up menus constraint-based drawing hierarchical modeling lightpen utilized for interaction

13. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 1962: SKETCHPAD (Ivan Sutherland) CAD WACOM TOUCHSCREENS COMUTER GRAPHICS (Hardware/Software) Features : pop -up menus constraint-based drawing hierarchical modeling lightpen utilized for interaction

14. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 1962: SKETCHPAD (Ivan Sutherland) CAD WACOM TOUCHSCREENS TELEAUTOGRAPH 1883

15. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 1963: BEFLIX (Kenneth Knowlton) DEMO COMPUTER ANIMATION (Programming Language) Features: Draw straight lines from dots Draw curves Copy region Move region Solid fill area Zoom area

16. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 1963: BEFLIX (Kenneth Knowlton) VIDEO PIXILLATION 1963 Lillian Schwartz / Kenneth Knowlton

17. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT ARTIST + ENGINEER BELL LABORATORIES USA MOTION GRAPHICS, SOFTWARE/HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT MATHEMATICIANS ACADEMIC COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN STUTTGART GERMANY PLOTTER AND GENERATIVE WORK

18. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 ECHOES Plotter Art and Previous Art Movements

19. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Ninety Parallel Sinusoids With Linearly Increasing Period Michael Noll 1963

20. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Ninety Parallel Sinusoids With Linearly Increasing Period Michael Noll 1963 CURRENT Bridget Riley 1963 (OP-ART)

21. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Vertical-Horizontal No. 3 Michael Noll 1964 NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE Marcel Duchamp 1913 (Cubism)

22. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Computer-Generated Random Patterns Based on the Composition Criteria Of Mondrian's Composition With Lines Michael Noll 1964 COMPOSITION WITH LINES Piet Mondrian 1917 ( De Stijl )

23. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Nr. 7 Frieder Nake 1965 Nr. 2 Frieder Nake 1965

24. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Nr. 2 Frieder Nake 1965 The Rose Garden Paul Klee 1920

25. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Nr. 2 Frieder Nake 1965 The Rose Garden Paul Klee 1920

26. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Random War Charles Csuri 1968

27. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Random War Charles Csuri 1968 Andy Warhol 1962, 1965

28. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Cubic Disarray Georg Nees 1968

29. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Cubic Disarray Georg Nees 1968 Still Life with Harp and Violin George Braque 1911

30. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 MAKING IT MOVE Computation and Early Motion Graphics

31. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Flexipede Tony Pritchett 1968

32. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Flexipede Tony Pritchett 1968

33. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Permutations John Whitney 1966 PROCESS

34. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 GOING INTERNATIONAL First High Profile Exhibition or The (Late) Summer of (Cyber)Love

35. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Cybernetic Serendipity ICA, London 1968 • computer generated work • cybernetic devices-robots and painting machines • machines demonstrating the use of computers and the history of cybernetics .

36. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Cybernetic Serendipity ICA, London 1968 • computer generated work • cybernetic devices-robots and painting machines • machines demonstrating the use of computers and the history of cybernetics .

37. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Cybernetic Serendipity ICA, London 1968

38. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 POST-SERENDIPITY Algorithms, Color, and Access to Video

39. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Scratch Codes Manfred Mohr 1969-1970

40. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Scratch Codes Manfred Mohr 1969-1970

41. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Scratch Codes Manfred Mohr 1969-1970

42. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 TVC Edward Zajec 1971

43. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Transformations Vera Molnar 1974

44. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Colorraster 75 Herbert Franke 1975

45. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Colorraster 75 Herbert Franke 1975

46. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Untitled Gray Ground Mark Wilson 1973

47. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 Untitled Gray Ground Mark Wilson 1973

48. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 ? MARK WILSON HERBERT FRANKE

49. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 MICROPROCESSOR MARK WILSON HERBERT FRANKE

50. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 ? MICROPROCESSOR MARK WILSON HERBERT FRANKE

51. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 MICROPROCESSOR GLITCH ART MARK WILSON HERBERT FRANKE

52. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 ATTITUDES Can you dig it?

53. TALAN MEMMOTT PhD Blekinge Tekniska Högskola , Sweden DIGITAL ART HISTORIES.1 The Artist and the Computer Lillian Schwartz (interview) 1976