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Book · Published
Digital Visions: Computers and Art
1987Possibly the best book on computer art history. Cover art: Vibeke Sorensen, Fish and Chips, 1985.
- Author / editor
- Cynthia Goodman
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
New York - Format
- Hardcover (with dust jacket)
- Pages
- 198
- Language
- English
Published in conjunction with a major 1987 touring exhibition organized by the Everson Museum of Art (and sponsored by IBM and the National Endowment for the Arts), this landmark survey documents early computational, generative, and digital art up through the late 1980s.
Cover art: Vibeke Sorensen, Fish and Chips, 1985. The piece is a playful visual pun combining 3D-rendered digital fish with computer microchips (integrated circuit packages) arranged on a geometric plane. It was originally developed as a stereoscopic 3D computer graphic exploring spatial depth, stereopsis, and digital visual puns (part of a series alongside works like Microfishe and Parroty Bits). Produced at the Caltech Computer Science Graphics Group (CSGG).