Edward Zajec

Basic Info

Name: Edward Zajec
Country of Origin: IT
Website: http://www.edwardzajec.com

Description

Edward Zajec was among the pioneers in the 1960s, and more recently is professor of computer graphics at the School of Art and Design at Syracuse University. His focus has been real-time artworks originating in his paintings, which used repetition and redundancy, then developed with the use of computers from 1968. While his films have

some aspirations in common with those of John Whitney Sr., his point of departure is the use of the computer in real time, and a different algorithmic or rule-based approach. Zajec’s work has found its way into collections and symposia spanning many decades.

Zajec, a pioneer of generative art, had started working with computers in 1968 while teaching Fine Art at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. His use of computers has focused on eliciting patterns based on redundancy and repetition. He has been engaged in computer graphics, experimental animation and internet projects in the recent past.

He is presently serving as a Professor Emeritus of Art and Design in the Transmedia department at The Syracuse University, New York. His work has been shown at Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, among other art venues around the world. It has also been featured in festivals like WRO Media Art Biennial, the Locarno Video Art Festival, Ars Electronica, ISEA and SIGGRAPH.

Explore Artworks By Edward Zajec

Prostor Version 50 (From the Prostor Series)

titled lower left below the image signed and dated lower right below the image hardware: IBM 1130 software: FORTRAN IV software output machine: CALCOMP 563 The Prostor Series establishes spatial relations determined by combinations of a given set of pre-designed modules on a randomly variable lattice. The shape of the composition as well as that of […]

Untitled (Spatial Metamorphosis)

hand written number below the image lower right: 0594 PLOT N.R. 42 printed within the image upper left significant computer and plotter output printing around the image “Centro di Calcolo Dell’ Universita di Trieste” printed along the right edge of the paper stamp showing a building with the inscription: “Universita degli Studi di Trieste Ricorda […]

Untitled (Spatial Metamorphosis)

hand written number below the image lower right: 02513 PLOT N.R. 23 printed within the image upper left significant computer and plotter output printing around the image “Centro di Calcolo Dell’ Universita di Trieste” printed along the right edge of the paper stamp showing a building with the inscription: “Universita degli Studi di Trieste Ricorda […]

Untitled (Spatial Metamorphosis)

hand written number below the image lower right: 46339 PLOT N.R. 1 printed within the image upper left significant computer and plotter output printing around the image “Centro di Calcolo Dell’ Universita di Trieste” printed along the right edge of the paper stamp showing a building with the inscription: “Universita degli Studi di Trieste Ricorda […]

Untitled (Spatial Metamorphosis)

hand written number below the image lower right: 40169 PLOT N.R. 45 printed within the image upper left significant computer and plotter output printing around the image “Centro di Calcolo Dell’ Universita di Trieste” printed along the right edge of the paper stamp showing a building with the inscription: “Universita degli Studi di Trieste Ricorda […]

Prostor Version 44 (From the Prostor Series)

titled lower left below the image signed and dated lower right below the image computer used to program the image: IBM 1130 with FORTRAN IV software machine used to draw the image: CALCOMP 563 The Prostor Series establishes spatial relations determined by combinations of a given set of pre-designed modules on a randomly variable lattice. The […]

RAM 10 V.15

titled lower left below the image signed and dated lower right below the image hardware: IBM 1620 output machine: ComPlot DP-1

T.V.C.==30=12828 (from The Cube: Theme and Variations Series)

one piece from the series entitled The Cube: Theme and Variations (T.V.C.). title and date printed lower left within the image “T.V.C.==30=12828==71” last name of the artist, Edward Zajec, and collaborating programmer, Matjaz Hmeljak, printed lower right within the image “PRG==HMELJAK==ART==ZAJEC” “Centro di Calcolo Dell’ Universita di Trieste” printed along the right edge of the paper […]

T.V.C.==70=21884 (from The Cube: Theme and Variations Series)

one piece from the series entitled The Cube: Theme and Variations (T.V.C.). title and date printed lower left within the image “T.V.C.==70=21884==71” last name of the artist, Edward Zajec, and collaborating programmer, Matjaz Hmeljak, printed lower right within the image “PRG==HMELJAK==ART==ZAJEC” “Centro di Calcolo Dell’ Universita di Trieste” printed along the right edge of the paper […]

RAM 9

titled lower left below the image signed and dated lower right below the image hardware: IBM 1620 output machine: ComPlot DP-1

Prostor 1 Version 9 (From the Prostor Series)

titled lower left below the image signed and dated lower right below the image California Computer Company (CALCOMP) information printed along bottom edge of the paper computer: IBM 1130 software: FORTRAN IV software output machine: CALCOMP 563 The Prostor Series establishes spatial relations determined by combinations of a given set of pre-designed modules on a randomly […]

T.V.C.==10=34702 (from The Cube: Theme and Variations Series)

one piece from the series entitled The Cube: Theme and Variations (T.V.C.). title and date printed lower left within the image “T.V.C.==10=34702=71” last name of the artist, Edward Zajec, and collaborating programmer, Matjaz Hmeljak, printed lower right within the image “PRG==HMELJAK==ART==ZAJEC” This square format computer print-out (or impact print on fanfold paper) shows an image […]

RAM 2 V.3

titled lower left below the image signed and dated lower right below the image hardware: IBM 1620 output machine: ComPlot DP-1

RAM 1 V.1

titled lower left below the image signed and dated lower right below the image hardware: IBM 1620 output machine: ComPlot DP-1

RAM 9 V.2

titled lower left below the image signed and dated lower right below the image hardware: IBM 1620 output machine: ComPlot DP-1

Prostor Version 143 (From the Prostor Series)

titled lower left below the image signed and dated lower right below the image computer used to program the image: IBM 1130 with FORTRAN IV software machine used to draw the image: CALCOMP 563 The Prostor Series establishes spatial relations determined by combinations of a given set of pre-designed modules on a randomly variable lattice. The […]