Tag Archives: 1980s
Dromeda (aka Andromeda) by Bob Carr, 1980. PETSCII-animation running on the PET computer.
“Keyboard graphics” by Quicksilver (Bryce L Tomlinson), 1987. Examples that came with his PETSCII-editor Kaleidoscope 2.0.
Works by Elsa Pärs-Berglund, made 1974-1984. Photos from her exhibition at Röhsska, Gothenburg.
Entries from the PETSCII competition arranged by the German magazine 64’er in 1985. Jet by M. Trenz (Manfred Trenz?), Sandra by D. Reimann, Schiff by J. Börck, VW Golf by A. König, Stilleben by E. Hellmann, White House by C. Engelhardt, Raucher by D. Tschöpe.
from c64-wiki.de via Christian Gleinsner in PETSCII WORLD.
Computer Poetry by Silvestre Pestana, consists of three poems. Computer Poetry To: E. Melo e Castro (ZX81, 1981), Computer Poetry To: Henry Chopin (ZX81, 1981), Computer Poetry To: Julian Beck (ZX Spectrum, 1983).
Here is the third one in action, running on a ZX Spectrum emulator, courtesy of oficinastk.
The work was also featured in a more recent exhibition by the artist (techno-form, 2016).
Read more here.
Sonya Rapoport’s Shoe Field exhibition (1982/85/89). 76 people’s feelings about their shoes plotted on a huge ASCII map, constructed with physics software. The circles on the floor are also visualizations of shoe feeelings. Video documentation and more at her website. Also see Artsy and a very interesting article at artinprint.
h/t: ailadi
Book cover for Pedro Xisto’s Particulars, 1984. Features a poem by the author performed on a computer by Erthos Albino de Souza, according to this. via garadinervi
Garadinervi: Jean Pierre Yvaral (aka Vasarely), from: L’instabilità come condizione umana, Edizioni d’Arte Il Segno, Macerata, 1981
Fun with basic keyboard graphics, a book from 1986 by Winnifred Nichols. Contains step-by-step instructions for 50 keyboard/typewriter works. Plenty of seasonal greetings! Available in full at archive.org thanks to Marcin Wichary.