biography is courtesy of Lisson Gallery and image is courtesy of Forward: “Born in Los Angeles, where she lived and worked for her entire life, Channa Horwitz (1932–2013) studied graphic design in the early 1950s at Art Center College of Design and Fine Art at Cal State Northridge in the early 1960s. In 1972 she […]
biography and image are courtesy of Sous Les Etoiles Gallery and Elementum: “Karl Martin Holzhäuser, b. 1944 in Germany, is one of the earliest champions of Concrete Photography. Today, Holzhäuser has returned to the roots of his chosen artistic medium, creating a new genre in the field of cameraless photography that combines the stringency of […]
Dieter Honisch was director of the Neue National Galerie at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin from 1975 to 1997. In 1970 and 1972, he served as commissioner of the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Honisch studied art history in Münster, Vienna, and Rome. In 1960, he received his doctorate with a thesis on Anton […]
biography is courtesy of the Tate: “was an Austrian artist, sculptor, and graphic artist. His works are in the collections of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, the Museum of Modern Art, the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, and the Tate Modern. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, […]
“Helmut Heißenbüttel (21 June 1921 – 19 September 1996) was a German novelist and poet. Among Heißenbüttel’s works are Das Textbuch (The Textbook) and Marlowe’s Ende (Marlowe’s End). He received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1969. His other awards include the Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse (1979) and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1990). Heißenbüttel […]
Frederick Hammersley (January 5, 1919 – May 31, 2009) was an American abstract painter whose work in the landmark 1959 Four Abstract Classicists exhibition established him as a pioneer of hard-edge painting. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Hammersley’s childhood was marked by frequent moves due to his father’s position with the Department of the […]
Leon D. Harmon (November 28, 1922 – 1983) was a researcher in mental/neural processing, particularly regarding vision, who worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated. Harmon started his career as a radio serviceman and electronics hobbyist. In 1950, he went to work as a wireman on the IAS machine at the Institute for Advanced Study, where […]
Claudia Hart emerged as part of that generation of 90s intermedia artists in the “identity art” niche, but now updated through the scrim of technology. Her work is about issues of the body, perception, nature collapsing into technology and then back again. Everything is fluid in it including gender. She considers it Cyborg-ish, creating liminal […]
As a generative artist and human-computer interaction researcher, Shiqing (Licia) He employs an expressive visual language alongside technological innovations to communicate emotion and experiences. Licia He grew up in China and currently resides in London, UK. Her cross-disciplinary artworks often use multicultural experiences as inspirations. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Studio Art […]
Jean-Pierre Hébert (1939 – March 28, 2021) was a conceptual artist who avidly explored and participated in the emergence of postmodernism. His interests lied mainly in the analysis and understanding of the latent rules, styles, trends, mania, recipes behind modern or contemporary art, and in their interpretation, extension, adoption, integration, adaptation. Genes and algorithms identified, […]
Desmond Paul Henry (1921-2004) stands as one of the pioneering figures in early British computer art. Born in Huddersfield, England, he grew up with dual fascinations for machines and art, aspiring from a young age to become a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci who could blend creativity with technical skill. During World War II, he served […]
Grace C. Hertlein began to work as an artist in the mid 1940s, showing her work in individual exhibitions from 1959. As a friend of the chief editor and co-publisher of the magazine Computers and Automation, she played a decisive part in the concept for the Computer Art Contest, the winner of which was presented […]
Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. In 1984 he moved to London, where he worked in construction before studying for a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths college from 1986 to 1989. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. Since the late 1980’s, Hirst has used a […]
Tyler Hobbs is a visual artist from Austin, Texas who works primarily with algorithms, plotters, and paint. His artwork focuses on computational aesthetics, how they are shaped by the biases of modern computer hardware and software, and how they relate to and interact with the natural world around us. Tyler develops and programs custom algorithms […]
David Hockney, OM, CH, RA (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.[2][3] Hockney has owned a home and studio in Bridlington and London, and two residences in California, where he […]
Sven Inge (born Sven Inge Höglund) was a Swedish painter and pop artist who came to some prominence in the late 1960s, doing performed visual experiments with digital technology as an art medium, and coloristic paintings. Sven Inge was born in Umeå in 1935 and grew up in a small village in Västerbotten in northern […]
Hervé Huitric studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (grad. 1969) and computer science at the University of Vincennes, now University of Paris VIII (M.A., 1973, Ph.D. 1980). 1969 founding member of the Groupe Art et Informatique de Vincennes. Professor at the University of Vincennes. Collaboration with Monique Nahas. He lives in Nogent-sur-Marne, FR. […]