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Computer art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 143 Collections and/or Records:

100 Allegories to Represent the World / Greenaway, Peter ; Fludd R., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31302-32775
Scope and Contents This artist book was created by Greenaway at the University of Humanities in Strasbourg, France, with the participation of over one hundred residents who posed for him in the nude. These photographs were combined with computer generated images that hide and reveal a multitude of manipulations using more than 2000 files. Greenaway writes, "Allegory has very largely moved underground in our cultural world. Once an important means of entirely public pictorial communication to those who could not read, it was also, in contradiction, an opportunity for infinite invention by scholars and artists keen to use it as a private language of sign and symbol, It could therefore be, at its most sophisticated, both a very public and a very private language."Greenaway used images from his own movies, paintings and graphic works as well as references from museum art, paintings and printed images over the last 600 years, plus contemporary ephemera from advertising, costume design and packaging and...
Dates: 1998

After Babel / Alpha Beta / Reichek, Elaine; Borges J., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43345-45405
Scope and Contents

Elaine Reichek transposes classical paintings into embroidered works. She first scans the reproductions of the paintings and runs the scans through software that maps them as coded embroidery charts. Of primary interest in this small portfolio is "The Tower of Babel" embroidered on linen after a painting by Pieter Bruegel. Also featured are embroideries based on the works of Samuel Morse, painter and inventor of the telegraph and the Morse code. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Artbyte: The Next Generation. No.2 / Blake W., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32653-34239
Scope and Contents

Contains essays surveying schools of digital media education. Matthew Kirschenbaum contributes an essay on the William Blake digital archive at the University of Virginia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Artbyte: What the Future Looks Like: Anniversary Issue. No.1 / Goldberg RL., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32616-34198
Scope and Contents

Contains essays covering innovations in digital art including artistic and cultural areas. This issue concentrates on the future of graphic and industrial design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Arte Suporte Computador / DeCampos A ; Kac E ; Silveira W ; DeCampos H ; Pignatari D ; Antunes A ; Leirner B ; Leirner J ; Burroughs WS., 1997

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Identifier: CC-31073-32538
Scope and Contents

This catalogue of a virtual museum consists of three books bound into one. The first is a manifesto and history of the launching of Casa das Rosas written by Jose Roberto Aguilar. The second section is the catalogue Arte Suporte Computador (Computer aas a Support for Aaart) including web art, Clip-Poemas Digitais by Augusto de Campos, High Voltage Harp by Barry Schwartz and several web site exhibitions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

At Last / Fencott, P.C.., 1985

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Identifier: CC-11215-11430
Scope and Contents

Fencott uses dense abstract computer generated forms as the ideograms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Automaterga Series II: 81-10, 81-11, 81-19, 82-1 / Monach, Greta., 1981 - 1982

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Identifier: CC-43991-46103
Scope and Contents

These poems are computer generated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981 - 1982

[Basta!], 1994

 Item — Folder 49: [Barcode: 31858072537834]
Identifier: CC-16148-16491
Scope and Contents

A ghost-like, computer manipulated, red colored photograph of a woman is in the center of a border of handwritten phrases e.g., insoportable pesar (insupportable sorrow), un verdadero silencio se impone (a veritable silence asserts itself), suicidio (suicide). The handwritten phrases around the border were printed with computer generated typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Bentlow Stairs / Cunnius, Ed; Kinsella, Elnor; Kirchman, Susan; Stacell, Alan., 1992

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Identifier: CC-28166-29329
Scope and Contents

This provides selected images from a hypertext production shown at a symposium on reading held at the Getty and attended by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992