Scallop Potatoes #50

Basic Information

Title: Scallop Potatoes #50
Artist(s): Frederick Hammersley
Date Created: 1969
Edition Info: 6/6a
Framed Dimensions: 14.75 x 18.5 in.
Unframed Dimensions: 11 x 14.75 in.
Medium:
Inventory ID: Hammersley-1969-05

Description

signed lower left in graphite
titled lower center in print
numbered 6/6a lower right in graphite

hardware: IBM Mainframe Computer
software: ART 1 – developed by the University of New Mexico Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science using FORTRAN IV

printed by The Standard Register Company

“Hammersley made his computer drawings using the 26 letters of the alphabet, 10 numerals and 11 symbols. The working area of each drawing was made up of a field of 50 characters in hight and 105 characters in width. The printer placed the vertical characters closer together can the horizontal characters resulting in a printed rectangular field approximately 8 x 10.5″ on paper paper measuring 11 x 14.75″. Two printing arrays were possible; that is, a second series of characters could be printed over an initial layer. Left and right edges of the paper were perforated with 1/8″ holes that guided the paper through the printer.”
– Frederick Hammersley The Computer Drawings 1969 exhibition catalogue

 

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