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Colette and Charles J. Bangert
Colette and Charles J. Bangert (commonly known as Jeffery) are well-known for their works of algorithmic art, which they produced as a couple. Colette was trained as an artist, while her husband studied mathematics, and later, computer science and programming; the two combined their skills to join the ranks of early innovators within the field. […]
Manuel Barbadillo
Manuel Barbadillo was a painter and one of the early proponents of computer art in Spain. Born in Seville in 1929, he enrolled in art school in the early 1950s before military service took him to Morocco by 1955, where he stayed through 1959. He then moved to New York for a few years before […]
Otto Beckmann
Otto Beckmann, who was a sculptor by education, is counted as one of the pioneers of computer art. “Otto Beckmann’s interaction with his computer was highly personal. He used it in isolation in his studio; the computer was a special tool—an extension of him. He called it an “intelligible tool with dialog properties,” which artificially […]
Oskar Beckmann
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
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
Beyls develops generative systems in music, the visual arts and hybrid formats. He has published extensively on various aspects of digital media, including on the application of artificial intelligence to artistic pursuits. His work has been widely exhibited and performed at conferences like Siggraph, ICMC, and ISEA. Beyls conceives of computer media as an active […]
José Bréval
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
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 + […]
Herbert Brün
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
Acclaimed artist/photographer Nancy Burson’s work is shown in museums and galleries internationally. “Seeing and Believing”, her traveling 2002 retrospective originating at the Grey Art Gallery, was nominated for Best Solo Museum Show of the Year in New York City by the International Association of Art Critics. She has served as a visiting professor at Harvard […]