The pioneers of pixels
When the web became the canvas
The multi-million dollar blockchain boom
Screens taking over physical spaces
andy Curate your pixel art gallery to learn how digital screens conquered the art market.
andy After using her imaginary machine, Vera Molnár accessed a Paris mainframe in 1968, learning FORTRAN to run a plotter printer.
Which programming language did pioneer Vera Molnár learn in 1968 to create her early computer-generated plotter art?
What was the name of the systematic, rule-based method Vera Molnár used to create art by hand before she got access to a real computer?
andy The robotic painter evolved from drawing simple lines to mixing its own physical colors.
What was the name of the pioneering autonomous art-making software launched by Harold Cohen in 1973?
How did Harold Cohen's early computer program AARON physically draw its creations in the 1970s?
Warhol's floppy disks: Andy Warhol's 1985 digital paintings were lost on old floppy disks for nearly thirty years until a computer club recovered them in 2014.
Which software program did Andy Warhol use to paint his famous digital portrait of Debbie Harry?
On which home computer did pop artist Andy Warhol create a live digital portrait of singer Debbie Harry in 1985?
A minute area of illumination on a display screen, one of many from which an image is composed. In 1953, Ben Laposky bypassed pixels entirely, using an analog oscilloscope to capture electronic wave patterns.
How did Herbert W. Franke capture the fleeting mathematical patterns generated on his laboratory screens in the 1950s?
What electronic laboratory instrument did physicist Herbert W. Franke use to generate his 1956 'oscillograms' art?