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Computer art

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 143 Collections and/or Records:

Diagrams Series 3 / Rosenberg, Jim., 1979

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Identifier: CC-56394-50210
Scope and Contents Jim Rosenberg was involved with John Cage as written in this communication on the internet by Anna Couer. The First Meeting of the Satie Society was conceived by John Cage and realized through the application of programs written at Cage's request by Jim Rosenberg and Andrew Culver (1985-86), this homage to the composer Erik Satie consisted of texts (presents) by writers who knew and loved Satie's work (or who might have if they had existed in a time period thar enabled them to know it), restructured by two computer programs. The texts were written by Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Chris Mann, Marshall McLuhan and John Cage, and also included selections from The Book of Genesis; there was also a "response" by Satie, consisting of selected quotes. One of the computer programs, MESOLIST, by Jim Rosenberg created mesostics on Satie's name and works from lines of text selected by IC a program by Andrew Culver that replicated the chance processes of the I Ching. The...
Dates: 1979

Diptychs, 2007

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Identifier: CC-46433-49162
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Geof Huth contributed an introduction to this book of visual poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Drumbeat for Drumbo / Ball, Nelson., 1996

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Identifier: CC-53355-100054
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Drumbo is a village in Canada and the poem lists all words related to it by Microsoft Word spell checker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

French Flag Infuence / Smith, Brian Reffin., 1989

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Identifier: CC-01803-1839
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Brian Reffin Smith (born 1946) is a writer, artist and teacher born in Sudbury in the United Kingdom. He lives in Berlin, Germany. Working with computers since the middle 1960s, he was a pioneer of computer-based conceptual art, with the aim of trying to resist technological determinism and "state of the art" technology which might merely produce "state of the technology" art. After showing interactive artworks at the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1983 he was invited by the French Ministry of Culture to intervene in art education, and was later appointed to a teaching post in the École nationale supérieure d'art (national art school) in Bourges. In the UK in 1979, Smith wrote 'Jackson', one of the first digital painting programs, for the Research Machines 380Z computer, software which was distributed by the Ministry of Education and widely used in schools and elsewhere. The BBC published his art software for the BBC Micro. He has been cited as one of the...
Dates: 1989

futura: Computer Grafik. No.13 / Frieder Nake., 1966

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Identifier: CC-27470-28518
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The labyrinth, which spreads over the entire broadside surface, has no beginning or end. It is much denser in the middle section than on is borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Gemma Three: White Truth Black, 1979

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Identifier: CC-28096-29255
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The text of the cards is printed in binary code. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Haphazard / Doctorovich, Fabio., 1994

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Identifier: CC-16156-16499
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Subtitled "A random-access assemblage of computerized visual poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Happy Birthday Ta! / Behar, Albert Sackner., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38818-40732
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This drawing was made by Marvin Sackner's grandson in honor of his 70th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Hard Drive: 12 Computer Generated Poems / Sutherland, W. Mark., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28414-29657
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The images of the prints depict computer circuit boards. These serve as abstract versions for sound poems as first utilized by Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996