Electronic Abstraction 52

signed lower right titled lower left Ben Laposky produced his Oscillons on an analogue cathode-ray oscilloscope. He then manipulated the electronic wave forms (Lissajous-figures) displayed on the screen and then photographed the results. He thus created some of the first graphics generated using an electronic machine and helped pave the way for the truly digital […]

Gaussian-Quadratic

signed and dated 12/03 in ink lower right copyright AMN 1965 printed below the image lower left artist name, title, and original creation date 1963 printed below the image lower center Correspondence with the artist on 1/18/2021 regarding this work: It is a photographic print from a negative. The print was probably made in the […]

P-026 Inversion Logique (Logical Inversion)

signed and dated lower right in graphite “Tape 1, 107” written in graphite lower left titled lower left on the reverse of the paper in graphite hardware: CDC7600 software: Program 26 with FORTRAN output machine: Benson Plotter information bout the algorithm provided by the artist: The elements are horizontal, vertical, 45 degree lines, square waves, […]

P-156 A Cubic Limit I

signed and dated lower center artist name and title printed bottom edge lower left This algorithm uses the 12 edges of the cube as an alphabet. The number of lines slowly decreases towards the outside of the circle in a statistical procedure, while the cube slowly rotates.