Benjamin Francis Laposky (1914–2000) was a mathematician, artist and draftsman in Cherokee, Iowa. He has been credited with making the first computer graphics, utilizing an oscilloscope as the creation medium for abstract art. In 1953 he released what he called “Oscillons” (or oscillogram designs) along with a corresponding thesis entitled “Electronic Abstractions” via a gallery […]
Carl Laszlo ( Hungarian László Károly ; born July 16, 1923 in Pécs , † November 8, 2013 [1] in Basel [2] ) was a Hungarian – Swiss art dealer , collector , psychoanalyst and author . Laszlo grew up in Pécs as the son of an assimilated upper middle-class Jewish family. He attended the Cistercian high school in his hometown and then went on to study medicine . As a fourteen-year-old, he had started collecting Hungarian folk art and interested in her Asian roots. Laszlo’s family […]
“Ruth Leavitt’s introduction to computers was via her first husband, Jay Allen Leavitt. Her own background as an artist was in abstract expressionism. She was a master-class student under Hans Hofmann, with whom she initially studied and practised abstract expressionism. Prompted by her husband who taught at the Computer Science Department at the University of […]
Auro Lecci began his computer graphic works at the data center of the University of Pisa (Italy) and later continued at the Department of Art of the University of Massachusettes, Amherst, MA (USA). Works and lives in Florence, Italy. 1958-1964 studied architecture at the University of Florence and the University of Oregon at Eugene. 1965-1968 studied electronic […]
Biography and photograph are courtesy of the artist’s website: “Joanie Lemercier (b. 1982) is a French visual artist and environmental activist whose work explores human perception through the manipulation of light in space. Working primarily with light projection and computer programming, Lemercier transforms the appearance of everyday objects and forms, bending reality to his imagination. […]
biography and artist’s portrait courtesy of the artist’s website: “Patrick Lichty is a media artist, writer, curator and designer of over 30 years. Born in Akron Ohio in 1962, he was raised on art, technology, and science fiction. After getting his BS in Electronic Engineering and working in the discipline, he began an art and […]
Zach Lieberman’s oeuvre is largely based on “augmenting the body’s ability to communicate” (Systemis). He holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hunter College and both a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design, where he now teaches graphics programming classes. Lieberman has exhibited his work and held residencies around the […]