Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)

1981

High Technology Art: A Congressional Exhibition, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Exhibition · North America · All-Time Moment

Black-and-white poster with a striped computer artwork above the exhibition title, Dallas venue and August 1981 dates.
Poster for the High Arts Technology Exhibition: Digital Subset at SIGGRAPH ’81, Dallas City Hall, August 3–28, 1981. This later touring presentation developed from the Library of Congress exhibition. ACM SIGGRAPH History Archives. Poster features Zsuzsa Molnar, Ragtimey, 1981. Image source.

This show was ​​exhibited at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. in April before “travel[ing] from Washington to the Electro Arts Gallery in San Francisco, where Ray Lauzzana directed the installation.”

This show formed the basis of Darcy Gerbarg’s exhibition at the 1981 SIGGRAPH conference.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

Sources

People

Darcy Gerbarg, Ray Lauzzana

Movements

computer art, digital art, Electronic Art

Filed under

Ideas
digital art
Technologies
computer art
People
Darcy Gerbarg, Ray Lauzzana
Works
Electronic Art
Exhibitions
Computer Culture 81, High Technology Art: A Congressional Exhibition
Organisations
Electro Arts Gallery, Library of Congress, SIGGRAPH
Places
San Francisco, Washington D.C

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