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==Literature==
 
==Literature==
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* J.R. Pierce, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13473 "Portrait of the Machine as a Young Artist"], ''Playboy'' 12:6 (1965), pp 124-5 & 150 & 182 & 184.
 
* J.R. Pierce, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13473 "Portrait of the Machine as a Young Artist"], ''Playboy'' 12:6 (1965), pp 124-5 & 150 & 182 & 184.
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* Dick Higgins, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7813 Computers for the Arts]'', Somerville, MA: Abyss Publications, 1970, 17 pp.
 
* Dick Higgins, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7813 Computers for the Arts]'', Somerville, MA: Abyss Publications, 1970, 17 pp.
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* Ruth Leavitt (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=229 Artist and Computer]'', Harmony Books, 1976, 121 pp.
 
* Ruth Leavitt (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=229 Artist and Computer]'', Harmony Books, 1976, 121 pp.
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* George Stiny, James Gips, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=615 Algorithmic Aesthetics: Computer Models for Criticism and Design in the Arts]'', University of California Press, 1978, 220 pp.
 
* George Stiny, James Gips, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=615 Algorithmic Aesthetics: Computer Models for Criticism and Design in the Arts]'', University of California Press, 1978, 220 pp.
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* Herbert W. Franke, [[Media:Franke Herbert W 1985 The New Visual Age The Influence of Computer Graphics on Art and Society.pdf|"The New Visual Age: The Influence of Computer Graphics on Art and Society"]], ''Leonardo'' 18:2, 1985, pp 105-107. [https://doi.org/10.2307/1577879]
 
* Herbert W. Franke, [[Media:Franke Herbert W 1985 The New Visual Age The Influence of Computer Graphics on Art and Society.pdf|"The New Visual Age: The Influence of Computer Graphics on Art and Society"]], ''Leonardo'' 18:2, 1985, pp 105-107. [https://doi.org/10.2307/1577879]
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* Frank Dietrich, [[Media:Dietrich Frank Visual Intelligence The First Decade of Computer Art 1965-1975 1986.pdf|"Visual Intelligence: The First Decade of Computer Art (1965-1975)"]], ''Leonardo'' 19:2, MIT Press, Apr 1986, pp 159-169.
 
* Frank Dietrich, [[Media:Dietrich Frank Visual Intelligence The First Decade of Computer Art 1965-1975 1986.pdf|"Visual Intelligence: The First Decade of Computer Art (1965-1975)"]], ''Leonardo'' 19:2, MIT Press, Apr 1986, pp 159-169.
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* ''Art Journal'' 49(3): "Computers and Art: Issues of Content", Autumn 1990.
 
* ''Art Journal'' 49(3): "Computers and Art: Issues of Content", Autumn 1990.
 
** Copper Giloth, Lynn Pocock-Williams, [[Media:Giloth Copper Pocock-Williams Lynn 1990 A Selected Chronology of Computer Art.pdf|"A Selected Chronology of Computer Art: Exhibitions, Publications, and Technology"]], ''Art Journal'', pp 283-297.  
 
** Copper Giloth, Lynn Pocock-Williams, [[Media:Giloth Copper Pocock-Williams Lynn 1990 A Selected Chronology of Computer Art.pdf|"A Selected Chronology of Computer Art: Exhibitions, Publications, and Technology"]], ''Art Journal'', pp 283-297.  
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* Ivo Janoušek, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5684 Slovníček pojmů elektronického a multimediálního umění]'', Prague: Národní technické muzeum, 1994, 18 pp. {{cz}}
 
* Ivo Janoušek, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5684 Slovníček pojmů elektronického a multimediálního umění]'', Prague: Národní technické muzeum, 1994, 18 pp. {{cz}}
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* Stuart Mealing (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1161 Computers and Art]'', 1997; 2nd ed., Intellect Books, 2002, 159 pp.
 
* Stuart Mealing (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1161 Computers and Art]'', 1997; 2nd ed., Intellect Books, 2002, 159 pp.
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* Nick Lambert, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2449 A Critical Examination of “Computer Art”: its History and Application]'', Oxford University, 2003. DPhil thesis.
 
* Nick Lambert, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2449 A Critical Examination of “Computer Art”: its History and Application]'', Oxford University, 2003. DPhil thesis.
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* Matthias Weiss, [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themen/generative_tools/computer_art/scroll/ "Was ist Computerkunst? Ein Antwortversuch und Beispiele zur Auslegung"], ''MedienKunstNetz'', 2004. {{de}}
 
* Matthias Weiss, [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themen/generative_tools/computer_art/scroll/ "Was ist Computerkunst? Ein Antwortversuch und Beispiele zur Auslegung"], ''MedienKunstNetz'', 2004. {{de}}
 
** [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/generative-tools/computer_art/scroll/ "What is Computer Art? An Attempt Towards an Answer and Examples of Interpretation"], ''MediaArtNet'', 2004.
 
** [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/generative-tools/computer_art/scroll/ "What is Computer Art? An Attempt Towards an Answer and Examples of Interpretation"], ''MediaArtNet'', 2004.
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* Paul A. Fishwick (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=235 Aesthetic Computing]'', MIT Press, 2006, 457 pp.
 
* Paul A. Fishwick (ed.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=235 Aesthetic Computing]'', MIT Press, 2006, 457 pp.
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* Christoph Klütsch, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=236 Computergrafik: Ästhetische Experimente zwischen zwei Kulturen. Die Anfänge der Computerkunst in den 1960er Jahren]'', Springer, 2007, 288 pp. {{de}}
 
* Christoph Klütsch, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=236 Computergrafik: Ästhetische Experimente zwischen zwei Kulturen. Die Anfänge der Computerkunst in den 1960er Jahren]'', Springer, 2007, 288 pp. {{de}}
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* Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert, Catherine Mason (eds.), ''White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980'', MIT Press (Leonardo), 2008, 464 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262026536/ Publisher].
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* Frieder Nake, [https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/00043249.2009.10791337 "The Semiotic Engine: Notes on the History of Algorithmic Images in Europe"], ''Art Journal'' 68:1, 2009, pp 76-89. [https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2009.10791337]
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* Dominic Lopes, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2403 A Philosophy of Computer Art]'', Routledge, 2009, 160 pp.
 
* Dominic Lopes, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2403 A Philosophy of Computer Art]'', Routledge, 2009, 160 pp.
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* Honor Beddard, Douglas Dodds, ''V&A Pattern: Digital Pioneers'', London: V&A Publishing, 2009, 78 pp. Catalogue. [https://www.academia.edu/7599752]
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3588 CAT 2010: Ideas Before Their Time: Connecting the Past and Present in Computer Art]'', eds. Nick Lambert, Jeremy Gardiner and Francesca Franco, BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT, 2010, 192 pp. Conference proceedings.
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=3588 CAT 2010: Ideas Before Their Time: Connecting the Past and Present in Computer Art]'', eds. Nick Lambert, Jeremy Gardiner and Francesca Franco, BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT, 2010, 192 pp. Conference proceedings.
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* Margit Rosen et al (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23084 A Little-Known Story About a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer's Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973]'', Karlsruhe: ZKM Center for Art and Media, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011, 576 pp.  
 
* Margit Rosen et al (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23084 A Little-Known Story About a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer's Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973]'', Karlsruhe: ZKM Center for Art and Media, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011, 576 pp.  
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* Hannah B. Higgins, Douglas Kahn (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=19231 Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts]'', University of California Press, 2012, xiv+362 pp.
 
* Hannah B. Higgins, Douglas Kahn (eds.), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=19231 Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts]'', University of California Press, 2012, xiv+362 pp.
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* Thomas Dreher, [http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/GCA_Index.html ''Geschichte der Computerkunst''], Munich, 2012. {{de}}
 
* Thomas Dreher, [http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/GCA_Index.html ''Geschichte der Computerkunst''], Munich, 2012. {{de}}
 
** ''[http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/GCA_Indexe.html History of Computer Art]'', Munich, 2014.
 
** ''[http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/GCA_Indexe.html History of Computer Art]'', Munich, 2014.
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* Grant D. Taylor, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=c5f4e840d0ac9f834aa9f7b43f1ebd62 When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art]'', Bloomsbury, 2014. Based on [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=200 2004 PhD dissertation].
 
* Grant D. Taylor, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=c5f4e840d0ac9f834aa9f7b43f1ebd62 When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art]'', Bloomsbury, 2014. Based on [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=200 2004 PhD dissertation].
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* Carolyn L. Kane, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=181678e81782099915d6f384935ecd61 Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics After Code]'', University of Chicago Press, 2014, 343 pp.
 
* Carolyn L. Kane, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=181678e81782099915d6f384935ecd61 Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics After Code]'', University of Chicago Press, 2014, 343 pp.
* Zabel Patterson, ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5ed7abbc9ff37c19c92e81d0 Peripheral Vision: Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the Origins of Computer Art]'', MIT Press, 2015, 152 pp, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/56cd784d9ff37c54a1836a0f EPUB]. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/peripheral-vision]. Review: [http://neural.it/2016/09/zabet-patterson-peripheral-vision-bell-labs-the-s-c-4020-and-the-origins-of-computer-art/ Neural].
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* Zabel Patterson, ''[https://1lib.sk/book/16675362/88493c Peripheral Vision: Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the Origins of Computer Art]'', MIT Press, 2015, 152 pp, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5ed7abbc9ff37c19c92e81d0 ARG/pdf], [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/56cd784d9ff37c54a1836a0f ARG/epub]. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/peripheral-vision]. Review: [http://neural.it/2016/09/zabet-patterson-peripheral-vision-bell-labs-the-s-c-4020-and-the-origins-of-computer-art/ Neural].
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* A. Michael Noll, [http://ethw.org/First-Hand:Howard_Wise_Gallery_Show_of_Digital_Art_and_Patterns_%281965%29:_A_50th_Anniversary_Memoir "The Howard Wise Gallery Show ''Computer-Generated Pictures'' (1965): A 50th-Anniversary Memoir"], ''Leonardo'' 49:3, Jun 2016, pp 232-239. [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LEON_a_01158] [http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/exhibition/172]
 
* A. Michael Noll, [http://ethw.org/First-Hand:Howard_Wise_Gallery_Show_of_Digital_Art_and_Patterns_%281965%29:_A_50th_Anniversary_Memoir "The Howard Wise Gallery Show ''Computer-Generated Pictures'' (1965): A 50th-Anniversary Memoir"], ''Leonardo'' 49:3, Jun 2016, pp 232-239. [http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LEON_a_01158] [http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/exhibition/172]
* Boris Magrini, ''Confronting the Machine: An Enquiry into the Subversive Drives of Computer-Generated Art'', De Gruyter, 2017. [https://books.google.com/books?id=aMJ8DgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover]
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* Boris Magrini, ''[https://1lib.sk/book/5640645/fc4ec0 Confronting the Machine: An Enquiry into the Subversive Drives of Computer-Generated Art]'', De Gruyter, 2017.  
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* Wayne E. Carlson, "Computer Artists", ch. 9 in Carlson, ''[https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/graphicshistory/ Computer Graphics and Computer Animation: A Retrospective Overview]'', Ohio State University, 2017.
 
* Wayne E. Carlson, "Computer Artists", ch. 9 in Carlson, ''[https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/graphicshistory/ Computer Graphics and Computer Animation: A Retrospective Overview]'', Ohio State University, 2017.
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* Lindsay Caplan, [[Media:Caplan Lindsay 2018 From Collective Creation to Creating Collectives Arte programmata and the Open Work 1962.pdf|"From Collective Creation to Creating Collectives: ''Arte programmata'' and the Open Work, 1962"]], ''Grey Room'' 73, Fall 2018, pp 54-81. [https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00256]  
 
* Lindsay Caplan, [[Media:Caplan Lindsay 2018 From Collective Creation to Creating Collectives Arte programmata and the Open Work 1962.pdf|"From Collective Creation to Creating Collectives: ''Arte programmata'' and the Open Work, 1962"]], ''Grey Room'' 73, Fall 2018, pp 54-81. [https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00256]  
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* A. Michael Noll, [http://sci-hub.se/10.1162/leon_a_01442 "The VanDerBeek-Knowlton Movies"], ''Leonardo'' 52:3, Jun 2019, pp 314-319.
 
* A. Michael Noll, [http://sci-hub.se/10.1162/leon_a_01442 "The VanDerBeek-Knowlton Movies"], ''Leonardo'' 52:3, Jun 2019, pp 314-319.
* Margaret A. Boden, Ernest A. Edmonds, ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5ed7aa469ff37c65d22e820d From Fingers to Digits: An Artificial Aesthetic]'', MIT Press, 2019, 392 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fingers-digits]
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* Margaret A. Boden, Ernest A. Edmonds, ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5ed7aa469ff37c65d22e820d From Fingers to Digits: An Artificial Aesthetic]'', MIT Press, 2019, 392 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fingers-digits Publisher].
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* Leoš Mátl, ''[https://is.muni.cz/th/g21s3/DP438008.pdf 60. léta počítačového umění: technické aspekty a otázka autorství]'', Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2020, 79 pp. Master's thesis. {{cz}}
 
* Leoš Mátl, ''[https://is.muni.cz/th/g21s3/DP438008.pdf 60. léta počítačového umění: technické aspekty a otázka autorství]'', Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2020, 79 pp. Master's thesis. {{cz}}
* Patrick Frank, ''Sharing Code: Art1, Frederick Hammersley, and the Dawn of Computer Art'', forew. Joseph Traugott, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2020, 160 pp. [http://www.mnmpress.org/?p=allBooks&id=270]
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* Patrick Frank, ''Sharing Code: Art1, Frederick Hammersley, and the Dawn of Computer Art'', forew. Joseph Traugott, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2020, 160 pp. [http://www.mnmpress.org/?p=allBooks&id=270 Publisher].
  
 
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'Computer art' is the generation of aesthetic objects with the aid of software on a digital computer. Its history started in 1965. Three exhibitions took place that year, which are acknowledged as first public presentations of digital art: Georg Nees at the Studiengalerie of the University of Stuttgart (5-19 February 1965); A. Michael Noll and Bela Julesz at Howard Wise Gallery, New York (6-24 April 1965); Frieder Nake and Georg Nees at Galerie Wendelin Niedlich, Stuttgart (5-26 November 1965)... The picture changes slightly, when we closely look at the time when these researcher-artists started their experiments in algorithmic art: Noll in 1962, Nake in 1963, Nees in 1964. All these dates refer to "digital" art and computers. Ben F. Laposky had started to work with analogue equipment in 1952. Herbert W. Franke followed in Austria in 1959, and Kurd Alsleben in Hamburg around 1960."
Frieder Nake

Artists, Events

Magazines

Group exhibition catalogues

  • Arte programmata: arte cinetica, opere moltiplicate, opera aperta [Programmed Art: Kinetic Art, Multiplied Works, Open Works], Milan: Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, 1962, 32 pp. Text by Umberto Eco. Works by Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari, Gruppo T, Gruppo N, Getulio Alviani, GRAV, et al. Organised by Bruno Munari and Giorgio Soavi; sponsored by Olivetti. Exh. held in Milan, May 1962; Piazza S. Marco, Venice, Jul-Aug 1962; Genova, 1962; Piazza Barberini, Rome, Oct 1962; Galleria La Cavana, Trieste, 1962; Tokyo, 1962; Goppinger Galerie, Düsseldorf, 1963; Royal College of Art, London, Jul 1964; Loeb Student Center, New York, 1964; and circulated across other venues in the US by the Smithsonian Institution. Video documentation (10 min). [1] (Italian),(French),(English)
  • Herstellung von zeichnerischen Darstellungen, Tonfolgen und Texten mit elektronischen Rechenanlagen. Programm-Information PI-21, Darmstadt: Deutsches Rechenzentrum Darmstadt, 1966. (German)
  • Computer Graphics, ed. Jiří Valoch, Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 1968, 16 pp. (Czech)
  • Cybernetic Serendipidity: The Computer and the Arts, ed. Jasia Reichardt, London: Studio International, Jul 1968; 2nd ed., rev., Sep 1968.
  • Arte y cibernetica, eds. Jorge Glusberg and Alfredo Ibarlucía, Buenos Aries: CEAC, 1969. Exh. held at Galería Bonino, Buenos Aires, Aug-Sep 1969. [2] (Spanish)
  • Impulse Computerkunst: Graphik, Plastik, Musik, Film, ed. Herbert W. Franke, Munich: Kunstverein München, 1970, 62 pp. Exh. held at Karl-Ernst-Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Feb 1970; Kunstverein München, Munich, 8 May-7 Jun 1970; Kunsthaus Hamburg, 12 Jun-12 Jul 1970; afterwards at Goethe-Institut internationally (Brussels, Oslo, Madrid, Zürich, Rome, Amsterdam, Lisbon, and elsewhere), 1971-1972. (German)
  • Tendencije 4 / Tendencies 4: Zagreb, 1968-1969, eds. Boris Kelemen and Radoslav Putar, Zagreb: Galerija suvremene umjetnosti, 1970, [146] pp. Texts and statements by Radoslav Putar, Almir Mavignier, Matko Meštrović, Enzo Mari, Alessandro Carlini, Bernhard Schneider, Alberto Biasi, Gianni Colombo, Milan Dobeš, Herbert W. Franke, Karl Gerstner, Rolf Glasmeier, Rolf Gravenhorst, Hein Gravenhorst, Dieter Hacker, John Gabriel Harries, Gottfried Jäger, Richard Kriesche, Max H. Mahlmann, Marcello Morandini, Zoran Radović, Bernhard Sandfort, Paolo Scheggi, Klaus Staudt, Josef Hermann Stiegler, Jorrit Tornquist, Gabriele de Vecchi, Herman de Vries. (Serbo-Croatian)/(French),(German),(Italian),(English)
  • Interactive Sound and Visual Systems, ed. Charles A. Csuri, College of the Arts, Ohio State University, 1970, 31 pp.
  • Arte y cibernética, Buenos Aires: Centro de Arte y Comunicacion (CAC), 1970. (Spanish)
  • Software: Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art, New York: Jewish Museum, 1970, 71 pp.
  • Computer Art, ed. Laxmi P. Sihare, New Delhi: National Gallery of Modern Art, 1972, 57 pp.
  • International Computer Arts Festival, New York: Kitchen, 1973, [7] pp. Program leaflet. Held 1-14 Apr 1973.
  • 2nd International Computer Art Festival, New York: The Kitchen, 1974, [10] pp. Held 1-15 Jun 1974. [3]
  • Bilder 43: "Computer-Bilder", Vienna: Fotogalerie Wien, Nov 1988, [12] pp. Works by Graf & Zyx (A), Ingoneu (A), Margot Pilz (A), Helmut Rainer (A), Leo Schatzl (A). [4] (German)
  • Počítačové umění v ČSSR a ve světě. 3. celostátní výstava s mezinárodní účastí, ed. Lucie Holá, Prague: Dům techniky, 1989, 27 pp. Exh. held 11-16 Apr 1989. Exhibition. [5] [6] [7] (Czech)
  • Počítačová grafika vo výtvarnom umení, ed. Zuzana Bartková and Martin Šperka, Banská Bystrica: Štátna galéria, 1992, [32] pp. (Slovak)
  • Computer Graphics in Fine Arts / Počítačová grafika vo výtvarnom umení, ed. Martin Šperka, Bratislava: Academy of Fine Arts, 1993, 8 pp. (English)/(Slovak)
  • Ex machina - frühe Computergrafik bis 1979: die Sammlungen Franke und weitere Stiftungen in der Kunsthalle Bremen. Herbert W. Franke zum 80. Geburtstag / Ex Machina: Early Computer Graphics Up to 1979, eds. Wulf Herzogenrath, Barbara Nierhoff-Wielk, and Herbert W. Franke, Bremen: Kunsthalle Bremen, 503 pp. Exh. held at the Kunsthalle Bremen, 17 Jun-26 Aug 2007. TOC. (German)/(English)
  • Computational Arts in Canada 1967-1974, ed. Adam Lauder, London, ON: McIntosh Gallery, 2020, 84 pp. TOC, [8]

Resources

Literature

  • Stuart Mealing (ed.), Computers and Art, 1997; 2nd ed., Intellect Books, 2002, 159 pp.
  • Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert, Catherine Mason (eds.), White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980, MIT Press (Leonardo), 2008, 464 pp. Publisher.
  • Honor Beddard, Douglas Dodds, V&A Pattern: Digital Pioneers, London: V&A Publishing, 2009, 78 pp. Catalogue. [12]
  • Patrick Frank, Sharing Code: Art1, Frederick Hammersley, and the Dawn of Computer Art, forew. Joseph Traugott, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2020, 160 pp. Publisher.
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