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Colonial blanket. National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Smithsonian Institution, 19th century.

Update, 2024: American Indian Magazine describes this is a Salish blanket from ca 1860, woven with goat and sheep wool.

abillmiller:

gridworks installation preview

A-C-R-C-I-T by Guy de Cointet, 1971.

More here.

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

Computer Graphics and Art, magazine cover, made by Matsuko K. Sasaki. Thx to Prosthetic Knowledge for sharing.

Magda Sayeg‘s yarn bombed bus.

Typewriter graphics by Paul Smith (b. 1921), who had cerebral palsy. More here.

More Paul Smith posts

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.

Works by Josef Albers in the 1940s. This article discusses its ties with ancient Mesoamerican art.

abillmiller:

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