Early Digital Computer Art at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3492650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Michael Noll (A. Michael Noll (retired educator, engineer, columnist, historian), Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281, U.S.A.., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-65 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/leon_a_00830 |
| OpenAlex | W1980800287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article is a history of the digital computer art and animation developed and created at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, 1962-1968. Still and animated images in two dimensions and in stereographic pairs were created and used in investigations of aesthetic preferences, in film titles, in choreography, and in experimental artistic movies. Interactive digital computer music software was extended to the visual domain, including a real-time interactive system. Some of the artworks generated were exhibited publicly in various art venues. This article emphasizes work in digital programming. This pioneering work at Bell Labs was a significant contribution to digital art
Animation · Art · Art history · Choreography · Computer animation · Computer art · Computer graphics (images) · Dance · Digital art · Multimedia · Performance art · Visual arts · Art, Technology, and Culture · Artistic and Creative Research · Computer Science · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Software
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |