Monthly Archives: May 2011

Fascinating new book published on an aspect of Computer Art’s history

A Little-Known Story About a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer’s Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973, edited by Margit Rosen has recently been published by MIT Press.  I’ve long admired Margit’s work at Germany’s ZKM and this book, clearly … Continue reading

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A Metaphysical World

May’s image is a still from Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli’s,Vermilion Lake, an interactive artwork comprising 3-D computer graphics driven by videogame technology, inspired by the artists’ travels to the snow-driven mountains of the Canadian Rockies. It is a hauntingly beautiful landscape of forests … Continue reading

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