Basic Information
Artist(s):
Title:
Igaro (from the Systems Dimensions Limited Portfolio)
Medium:
Image Size:
20.5 x 20.5 in.
Surface Size:
22.75 x 22.75 in.
Date Created:
1973
Inventory #:
Barbadillo-1973-01
Description
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 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 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 […]
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
