L’enseigne de Gersaint by Jiří Kolář, 1966. Each page is titled after a person, like Albers, Dubuffet, Kandinsky, Kemeny, Klee, Malevich, Miró, Schwitters and Tinguely. All pages available here.
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Hannah Ryggen – Blod i gresset (1966). A reaction to the Vietnam War. Lyndon B. Johnson and his dog on the right.
Nude aka Computer Nudes aka Studies in Perception by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon, 1966. While this is often called the first ASCII art piece, it doesn’t use any ASCII characters, and it was preceded by for example Digital Mona Lisa (1964).
Some hi-res scans here, thx to chicasyordinadores 4 the link. Also see this.
PlayPlax, a construction toy invented by Patrick Rylands for Trendon Toys, 1966.
Walk-Through-Raster serie 2.1 by Frieder Nake, 1966. Programmed in ALGOL 60, plotted with a ZUSE-Graphomat Z64. More info here and here.
Kurt Schwitters by Jiří Kolář. Published 1966 in his book Gersaints Auschängeschild that featured concrete poems about 30 people, Schwitters being one of them.
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Nude by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon, 1966. Contrary to popular belief, it does not use ASCII characters but various pictograms. In 1967 the image was printed in The New York Times, and then later exhibited at one of the earliest computer art exhibitions, The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, held Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1968.
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