Computer Sculpture - Artforum
At this point computer sculpture finally will have moved abreast of where computer music is now—which, for that matter, entered this third phase almost at its inception in 1955. At stage four the computer, seemingly proceeding almost entirely on its own, begins to make decisions and generate productions that even the sculptor cannot anticipate.
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 …
Once the introduction was made, I paired up the Computer Club with the Warhol Museum, and together we embarked on a multiyear, multi-institution effort to study and preserve Warhol’s disks, with additional support from the Hillman Photography Initiative at the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Studio for Creative Inquiry.
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.
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 …
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.
Network: The Art World Described as a System - Artforum
In connection with the early Pop art term “fine art-pop art continuum” 17 was used to describe the interconnections of cultural levels, “low” and “high,” unique or mass-produced, in nonhomogeneous groups. It included the esthetic appreciation of mass-produced goods, the appropriation of popular materials by artists (Pop art), and ...
INTRODUCTION BY MICHELLE KUO - artforum.com
Today we still cringe at manufactured genres like “computer art,” even if art as we know it could barely exist without computers. Technophilia and technophobia alike pervade museums, galleries, and art-fair booths; the language of new media and social media— platform , network , algorithm , sharing —abounds in press releases and ...