Basic Information
Artist(s):
Title:
Cerinea
Medium:
Image Size:
20.5 x 20.5 in.
Surface Size:
22.75 x 22.75 in.
Date Created:
1973
Edition Info:
7/100
Inventory #:
Barbadillo-1973-02
Description
signed lower right in graphite
numbered 7/100 lower left in graphite
titled center verso in graphite
provenance: from the Grace Hertlein Collection and Archives
The portfolio was commissioned by Systems Dimensions Limited, an early Canadian computer services firm, in 1973 as a way of promoting computers not only as a tool to expand industrial and administrative efficiency, but also as an new tool for artistic image-making. The portfolio commissioned nine international artists and academics in the field of computer science – among them Manfred Mohr, Georg Nees, Manuel Barbadillo, and Lebanese-Canadian Roger Vilder – to develop a series of computer-generated art. The resulting images are extraordinary, depicting complex patterns and bold colours generated from mathematical algorithms and machine code. Marking an important development of both abstraction and non-human generation, these are exceptional examples of some of the first wholly digital artworks.
signed lower right in graphite numbered P.A. lower left in graphite titled center verso in graphite provenance: from the Grace Hertlein Collection and Archives The portfolio was commissioned by Systems Dimensions Limited, an early Canadian computer services firm, in 1973 as a way of promoting computers not only as a tool to expand industrial and […]
code from computer program printed upper left above the image dates unknown: likely between 1968-1972 These computer print-outs by Manuel Barbadillo would have served as trial pieces, or research, for a later work that would have been produced by hand. Barbadillo wrote a computer program that enabled him to rotate the U- shaped forms within […]
a portfolio of six serigraphs created after original unique computer-generated images in a custom made box with the title printed on the front along the left side the portfolio contains: a serigraph printed colophon page that is numbered in graphite a lithographic introductory text by page Abraham A. Moles that is printed in English and […]
serigraph after an original unique computer-generated image signed lower right in graphite numbered lower left in graphite image: 12 x 12″ Art Ex Machina Portfolio
