Women Pioneers Bring Naturalism to Computer Art

The decade of the ’70s saw a group of Women pioneers, specifically Grace C. Hertlein, Joan Truckenbrod, Colette Bangert and Lillian Schwartz, infuse the computer art aesthetic with a more naturalist touch.

This marked a transition away from the more rigid and precise symmetrical grids of the ’60s.

Emblematic of this move were two foundational works in 1970:

Grace C. Hertlein’s The Field and Colette and Charles Bangert’s Large Landscape: Ochre and Black.

Image is copyrighted by Frieder Nake and courtesy of The Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection.