The Swedish artist duo Beck & Jung, comprised of Holger Bäckström (1939–1997) and Bo Ljungberg (1939–2007), were seminal pioneers in the field of computer-generated art. Their work is prominently featured in the Anne + Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection, representing a critical bridge between early mainframe computing and fine art printmaking. Artistic Collaboration and Philosophy: […]
Charles Jeffries Bangert and Colette Bangert Charles Jeffries Bangert, known as Jeff, was born in 1938 in Fargo, North Dakota. He studied mathematics at Harvard, printmaking at the Art Institute of Chicago, and earned a BA in mathematics and studio art from the University of North Dakota, later completing graduate studies in mathematics and statistics […]
Manuel Barbadillo (1929-2003) was a Spanish painter and pioneering figure in computer-assisted art. Born in Cazalla de la Sierra, Sevilla, he trained as a painter in various workshops and art schools in Seville while studying Law. Between 1955 and 1959, military service and extended travels took him to Morocco, where his style evolved from realism […]
Otto Beckmann was born in Vladivostok, Russia, in 1908 and moved with his family to Vienna in 1922. He trained as an electromechanic and studied at both the Higher Technical College in Mödling and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, graduating in 1941 as a sculptor. During the war years, he taught at the […]
Son of the computer artist Otto Beckmann, Oskar was an engineer and telecommunications scientist who constructed the hybrid computer that his father used for his artwork. Oskar “was familiar with electronic data processing and Markov generators from his studies (…) and he decided to build a special-purpose computer for his father. He started the development of […]
Anna Beller is an experimental painter and digital artist with an architectural background, originally from Berlin. She experiments with color relationships and its transparencies in different painting techniques, recently adding a pen-plotter to find an experimental symbiosis between human and automatic art expression. In her digital art route she follows a logic and conceptual route, preferably […]
Peter Beyls is an interdisciplinary artist born in 1950 in Kortrijk, Belgium, whose practice centers on generative systems that explore autonomous behavior, perception, and emergence through code. He studied electronic engineering, music, and computer science at EMS Stockholm, the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, and the Slade School of Art at University College London, and in […]
Born to a Polish mother and to a father who was an electrician, French artist José Bréval graduated in 1970 as an engineer in electronics and information technology. Before graduating, he developed an interest in art after having visited the exhibition Lumière et Mouvement organised by Franck Popper at the Museum of Modern Art of Paris in […]
Sophia Brueckner is a futurist artist, designer and engineer. The goal of her work is “to meaningfully combine her background in design and engineering with the perspective of an artist to inspire a more positive future” (Bio). Brueckner received her Sc.B. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Brown University, her MFA in Digital + […]
Artist’s biography and portrait courtesy of Rare Nest Gallery: “Herbert Brün’s computer graphics represent a watershed in early computer art and design. Widely recognized as a visionary pioneer in electronic composition including music and graphics, as a leader in social thought and computer theory and as a beloved teacher and mentor, Brün was the first […]
Nancy Burson was born in 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri. She studied painting at Colorado Women’s College in Denver from 1966 to 1968 before moving to New York City, where she found early support from Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT). She began collaborating with engineers and computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]
biography and image are courtesy of CompArt DADA: Database of Digital Art: “Max Bense was a German philosopher, scholar, and poet. His background studies were in philosophy, mathematics, geology, and physics, and later in information theory, semiotics, and cybernetics. He was particularly influential in the 1950s and 1960s in West-Germany and internationally. He became one […]
biography and image are courtesy of the 16 4 66 Portfolio: “Born on 31 March 1928 in Burgel, Thuringia. Lecturer for typography at the Stuttgart Higher Graphic College.”
Jean H. Bevis, Georgia State University professor of mathematics, his works derive their programmatic design source from this discipline. His graphic, Princely Potential, was chosen as the symbol for the NCC ’76 Art Exhibition and imprinted on souvenir buttons for art show guests.
