Tag Archives: 1960s

Hypothetical Surface 1 by David R Garson, 1969. Computer prints made with IBM-stuff. Not sure, but it looks like text.

Seiichi Niikuni: “Fantasma” (1969), via

peter kubelka‘s “arnulf rainer” (1960).

Zdeněk Sýkora’s ventilation tower and paintings. Sort of reminds me of the monumental game HT Gold. The Guardian:

His collaboration with the mathematician Jaroslav Blazek led to his first computer-assisted works, which explored different combinations of abstract elements in accordance with predetermined rules. While they have a passing similarity to Op art in western Europe and America, their rigorous mathematical method was unique to Sykora. 

Read more here and check related works at the Prosthetic Knowledge picks. Pictures taken from, uh, Google and Wikipedia

Pierre Garnier, microcosmique, 1967.

The earliest known ASCII art so far? That wasn’t pr0n? Unknown author. From compart:

Done on Carnegie-Mellon University’s Bendix G-21 computer with a standard uppercase character set. Programs written in ALGOL.

Created mid 1960s

Artwork Type: print

Material: 

print, b/w, computer-generated

More 1960s ASCII art

By Edward Zajec, 1969. Generated with an IBM 1620, after he moved to USA. Image from this page on Monoskop (archived, without images). More on his website and Slovenian Wikipedia.

Post updated in 2024.

Extra Verse No. 17 by Bob Cobbing, 1966.

Artistic Embroidery (Художественная вышивка), a book edited by L. Ya. Razutova (Л. Я. Разутовой) in 1963. Soviet artistic folk embroidery patterns. Images from an Ebay auction. More info (in Russian) here.

Post updated in 2024.

m7kenji:

Mary Martin

Permutation, 1965

Pen and ink on paper

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