The 2nd International Conference on Computers and the Humanities (ICCH/2) at the University of Southern California

Organized by Grace C. Hertlein, ICCH/2 was the largest computer art exhibition held in the United States at that point. It showcased computer made film, graphics and music. The show also marked a turning point in the use of the computer for art. According to Hertlein, “In earlier exhibitions, physicists, systems analysts and programmers dominated this field. Today’s computer artists are sculptors, painters and architects who use the computer primary as a designing aid.” The aesthetics of computer art were changing as well. Hertlein viewed earlier computer art exhibitions, including the most famous of them all, Cybernetic Serendipity, as “overly preoccupied with mathematics and line.”