Robert Stoiber’s role in art education is defined by his position as a bridge between traditional art practices and the early computational methods of the 1980s. While he is celebrated for his own creative output, his professional identity is consistently tied to his work as an art educator. Educational Context and Philosophy: • Integrating Technology: […]
Thomas Michael Stephens studied theater design, creative writing, and art history at the University of Kansas, Kansas City, MO (1959–1963). 1962–1964 co-founder and director of the New Center U.S. Art Cooperative Gallery, Kansas City, MO. 1966 founding member of the Art Research Center (ARC). He lives in Columbus, KS, USA.
biography and image are courtesy of the artist’s website: “Born in Valencia in 1944. She studied at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona between 1960 and 1965. Between 1969 and 1971, she participated in the Seminar on the Automatic Generation of Plastic Forms at the Computing Center of the Complutense University of […]
Lyle Sankey was a student of Grace Hertlein’s at California State University, Chico, CA
Javier Seguí de la Riva is considered a key player in the University of Madrid’s Computer Center (CCUM), one of the few places of creative freedom tolerated under the Franco dictatorship. The experimental space, developed and funded by IBM, operated from 1968 to 1982 and brought together architects, engineers, philosophers, poets, painters, and others to […]
biography and picture are courtesy of the artist’s website: “Jen Stark’s art is driven by her interest in conceptualizing visual systems to simulate plant growth, evolution, infinity, fractals, mimetic topographies, and sacred geometries. Using available materials—paper, wood, metal, paint—Stark strives to make work that balances on a razor’s edge of optical seduction and perceptual engagement. […]
biography is courtesy of Galeria Richard Vanderaa: “German Informel is closely associated with K.R.H. Sonderborg. Inspired by the gestural painting of American Abstract Expressionism, his paintings and drawings reveal a fascination with technical constructions and their traces of movement. It shows the form in its process of creation. In doing so, Sonderborg used a spontaneous […]
biography courtesy of Penka Rare Books: “Struycken is one of the pioneers of computer art. In the 1970s, he wrote his own computer programs that calculated arrangements and constellations, which Struycken then executed. But as early as 1962, he undertook his first experiments on the mathematical relationships between color and form. In the analytical works […]
Biography: Beth Kobliner Shaw is a journalist, author and artist. As journalist and author, Beth has spent her career helping people understand personal finance. She has written two New York Times bestsellers, Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties and Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even if You’re Not), both […]
“Nicolas Schöffer (Hungarian: Schöffer Miklós; 6 September 1912 — 8 January 1992) was a Hungarian-born French cybernetic artist. Schöffer was born in Kalocsa, Hungary and resided in Paris from 1936 until his death in Montmartre in 1992. He built his artworks on cybernetic theories of contol and feedback primarily based on the ideas of Norbert […]
Biography and picture are courtesy of the artist’s website: Marcel Schwittlick is a Berlin-based artist who uniquely blends digital and physical art through the use of drawing machines and algorithmic systems. His work spans generative art and plotter art, where he transforms digital cursor-lines into intricate, tangible artworks. Schwittlick draws inspiration from generative aesthetics and […]
biography and picture are courtesy of the artist: Shahzia Sikander is widely celebrated for subverting Central and South-Asian miniature painting traditions into dialogue with contemporary international art practices and launching the form known today as neo-miniature. Engaging ideas of language, trade, empire, and migration through feminist perspectives, Sikander’s paintings, video animations, mosaics and sculpture explore […]
Brian Reffin Smith (born 1946) is an artist, writer, teacher and musician born in Sudbury, Suffolk, in the United Kingdom, who won the first-ever Prix Ars Electronica, the Golden Nica, in Linz, Austria, 1987. He lives in Berlin, Germany. Brought up in Sileby, Leicestershire, he attended what was then an early comprehensive school, Humphrey Perkins School, at Barrow-upon-Soar. Smith studied metallurgy and metal physics at Brunel University (his sculptural use […]
Adam Smith graduated from RISD in 1985 with his BFA. After moving to Cambridge, MA, he developed one of the first 3D CAD (Computer-Aided Design) applications. He then relocated to San Diego, where he worked for NASA as art director for a booklet, Global Change, later presented to the Reagan administration as the first NASA document acknowledging […]
Laura Splan is an American artist working at the intersections of Science, Technology, and Culture. Her research-based studio practice and interdisciplinary collaborations culminate in multimedia artworks, exhibitions, and events. With an approach grounded in what she calls the “tactical tactile”, her work cultivates intuitive comprehension of the interconnectedness of cultural and biological systems in the […]
Biography and photograph of artist are courtesy of the artist: Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics, generative imagination and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and […]
Tavares Strachan is a contemporary conceptual artist whose practice activates the intersections of art, science, and politics, offering uniquely synthesized points of view on the cultural dynamics of scientific knowledge. Aeronautics, astronomy, deep-sea exploration, and extreme climatology are but some of the thematic arenas out of which Strachan creates monumental allegories that tell of cultural […]
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 […]
Lloyd Sumner was an early American computer artist, one of the first to pursue computer art as his full-time career. Sumner was born in Virginia, as the youngest of 13 siblings, and was orphaned at the age of 16. In 1962, he entered the University of Virginia and got a part time job working at […]
Background Sundqvist, at Saab in Linköping, and later at AB Skandinaviska Elverk, used the Saab manufactured computer D21 at Skandinaviska Elverk to create a digital sound for Morthenson’s musical piece Neutron Star in 1967. In 1969, Sundqvist made the computer animations for Supersonics, a TV-film Morthenson made for Westdeutscher Rundfunk [7,10,11]. Morthenson met Sundqvist […]
Born in 1920 in Louny, a town in Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic, Zdeněk Sýkora is internationally recognized as a prominent experimental painter and artist. He began painting in 1940, studying art education and geometry at Charles University in Prague from 1945-47. His initial works, mainly landscapes, depicted the area around his hometown of Louny, especially […]
