Video Art: The Electronic Man at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

This exhibit stands out as a key moment in the transition from video art to video game art. Copper Giloth bridged the gap between the rapidly rising popularity of video games and video art. Her piece, From Video Games to Video Art was an interactive installation that used Thomas DeFanti’s ZGRASS.

Giloth herself explains: “Using a joystick and buttons the user to could create a simple image and then using that image and its 7 simple symmetries create more complex drawings. Additional software and hardware designed by T. DeFanti and D. Harris. 10 plotter drawings were included in the exhibition. Hardware: Datamax Zgrass UV-1 machine with a custom interface.”