01 / 17Computers and Automation, August 1967. Front cover: Charles Csuri and James Shaffer, Sine Curve Man, 1967, winner of the fifth annual Computer Art Contest.
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Computers and Automation, August 1967
August 1967The fifth annual contest issue, led by Charles Csuri and James Shaffer’s Sine Curve Man and a substantial selection of their work, alongside Frieder Nake, Lloyd Sumner, and others.
- Author / editor
- Edmund C. Berkeley, editor and publisher
- Publisher
- Berkeley Enterprises, Inc.
Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA - Format
- Digitized illustrated magazine
- Pages
- 60
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Vol. 16, no. 8
PDF document
Full issueEnglish · 6.9 MB
Complete August 1967 issue, vol. 16, no. 8. Digital facsimile from Bitsavers.
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The fifth annual computer-art contest awards first prize jointly to Charles Csuri and programmer James Shaffer for Sine Curve Man, 1967. Page 8 describes the sine-based coordinate transformation used to distort the figure. Their other entries include Random War, Chaos to Order, Angels and Devils, and Flies Transformed.
The contest feature on pages 8–21 also includes Frieder Nake’s Labyrinth, works by Lloyd Sumner, and frames from Stan VanDerBeek and Kenneth Knowlton’s Man and His World. Edmund C. Berkeley’s editorial on page 7 argues that computers will substantially change artistic practice. Page 55 notices Design Quarterly 66/67, Design and the Computer.
The gallery includes the front cover, the editorial and complete contest section on pages 7–21, and the publication notice on page 55.
Works reproduced in the gallery
The full-issue PDF and page images are digital facsimiles from Bitsavers. Original library stamps and other marks in the source scan are retained. This entry documents the digitized issue.