Kerry Strand

Basic Info

Name: Kerry Strand
Country of Origin: US

Description

Kerry Strand worked with California Computer Products Inc. (CalComp) in the late 1960s, a company that, among other equipment, produced plotters. Strand won the first prize of the 6th Annual Computer Art Contest (1968) arranged by the magazine Computer Art Contest. His prize winning entry was the drawingHummingbird.

In the same year of 1968, the works Crest, Hummingbird and other images form part of an exhibition in the New York Room of the Statler Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

During the course of this exhibition, a competition for computer artists, initiated by CalComp, was announced. Winning universities and individual artists were to be supported by scholarships. [More on this!]

All of Strand’s works, including representational works such as “The Fisherman” orThe Snail of 1968, were exhibited under the name of the CalComp artist group.

With these works, CalComp also participated in important exhibitions of early Computer Art such as Cybernetic Serendipity in London in 1968 and tendencies 4in Zagreb 1968-1969.

Explore Artworks By Kerry Strand

A Selection of Winning Entries from the 1968 Computer Art Contest

Created in 1968 by Spalter Digital Collection Library, Kerry Strand, Larry Jenkins, Gary Craigmile, A.M. France

an ephemera folder containing two offset lithograph reproductions of original unique computer-generated plotter drawings from the 1968 Computer Art Contest Kerry Strand, Larry Jenkins & Gary Craigmile Plexus offset lithograph on paper image and paper: 16 x 12″ 1968 output machine: CalComp Plotter published by COMPRO, Cherry Hill, NJ text on the reverse of the […]


Cybernetic Serendipity (The Computer and the Arts) Portfolio

Created in 1968 by Masao Kohmura, Makoto Ohtake, Koji Fujino, Maughan Sterling Mason, Kerry Strand, James Shaffer, Charles “Chuck” Csuri, Donald K. Robbins, Kunio Yamanaka, William Alan Fetter

a portfolio containing a colophon page and seven lithographs all after original unique computer-generated plotter drawings in a custom made box printed and published by Motif Editions, London in 1968 each print has the artist name(s), title, date(s), associated university/company/location, and publishing information printed along the lower left edge of the paper 1. CTG – […]


The Snail

Created in 1968 by Kerry Strand

from the Cybernetic Serendipity portfolio containing a colophon page and seven lithographs all after original unique computer-generated plotter drawings in a custom made box printed and published by Motif Editions, London in 1968 artist name, title, date, associated company/location, and publishing information printed along the lower left edge of the paper the artist was associated […]