Sometime in the late 1970s I did a studio visit at UC San Diego with Harold Cohen. Still new to California, I had heard about an artist working with computer programming to make experimental drawings ...
In 1964, only one mainframe computer existed on Ohio State’s campus. Alongside processors, chords and drum plotters, the computer sat in its own room. It was in a space typically occupied by engineers ...
“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...
Edward Kienholz’s sculpture “The Friendly Grey Computer — Star Gauge Model #54” serves as both the beginning and end of the LACMA exhibit “Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982.” (Sarah ...