Explore the History of Computer Art
The Ragnar Digital Collection is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive collections of computer and digital art.
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À la mémoire de J. M. Jacquard Textile
Visite de Mgr le duc d'Aumale à la Croix-Rousse Textile
Mémoire sur l'étude optique des mouvements vibratoires Book
Pendulum Autographs, vol. 1 (album of harmonograph drawings) Drawing
Pendulum Autographs, vol. 2 (album of harmonograph drawings) Drawing
Nourathar: The Fine Art of Light Color Playing Book
Art in Cinema: A Symposium on the Avantgarde Film Book
Untitled Oscilloscope Photo Oscilloscope
Untitled Oscilloscope Photo (2) Oscilloscope
Untitled Oscilloscope Photo (3) Oscilloscope
Untitled Oscilloscope Photo (4) Oscilloscope
Untitled Oscilloscope Photo (5) Oscilloscope
Untitled Oscilloscope Photograph (negative #1) Oscilloscope
Untitled Oscilloscope Photograph (negative #2) Oscilloscope
Abstronic Set Oscilloscope
Untitled Double Oscilloscope Photograph (negative #3) Oscilloscope
Untitled Double Oscilloscope Photograph (photograph #1) Oscilloscope
Abstronic Sketch #2 Oscilloscope
Abstronic Film
Abstronic title card (“Animated Electronically”) Print
Abstronic title card (“by Mary Ellen Bute”) Print
Oscillon #18 Oscilloscope
Oscillon #173 Oscilloscope
Films in Review, Vol. 5, No. 6 (June–July 1954) Ephemera
Encounter, vol. III, no. 4 Book
PF Reporter, Vol. 6, No. 10 (October 1956) Ephemera
Oscillon #596 Oscilloscope
augenblick 3’58 (June–July 1958) Ephemera
augenblick 1’58 (March 1958) Ephemera
augenblick 2’58 (April–May 1958) Ephemera
augenblick 6’58 (December 1958–January 1959) Ephemera
augenblick 5’58 (October–November 1958) Ephemera
augenblick 4’58 (August–September 1958) Ephemera
Four-Panel Oscilloscope Photo Oscilloscope
augenblick (journal, 1955–1961) Ephemera
Experimental Music: Composition with an Electronic Computer Book
Stochastische Texte (Augenblick 1'4) Prose/Poetry
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution: The Rede Lecture Book
Ordination Photo Photograph
augenblick 4’4 (November–December 1960) Ephemera
augenblick 3’4 (May–August 1960) Ephemera
augenblick 2’4 (January–April 1960) Ephemera
Untitled (1) Oscilloscope
Untitled (2) Oscilloscope
Computergrafik 5 Print
Music From Mathematics (Box Set) Sound
Cibernetik 5.3 Film
Almanacco Letterario Bompiani 1962: Le applicazioni dei calcolatori elettronici alle scienze morali e alla letteratura Book
Synthesized Speech Sound
augenblick 2’5 (April–June 1961) Ephemera
augenblick 1’5 (January–March 1961) Ephemera
augenblick 3/4’5 (July–December 1961) Ephemera
Giant Brains, or Machines That Think Book
Untitled from Drawing Machine One Machine Drawing
Recreational Mathematics Book
rot 6 Prose/Poetry
Reid Gallery Invitation (One Man Show) Ephemera
"Ideographs" Exhibition Brochure Ephemera
Music From Mathematics (Decca LP, 1962) Sound
Kennedy Portrait Print
Computer Speech – Hee Saw Dhuh Kaet Sound
Language D'un Ordinateur - Hee Saw Dhuh Kaet Sound
rot 11 - Monolog der Terry Jo Prose/Poetry
Double Painting
Exhibition Catalog, Robert Fraser Gallery, 1963 Mixed Media
Untitled from Drawing Machine Two Machine Drawing
The Logic of Saint Anslem Machine Drawing
Musiques formelles: nouveaux principes formels de composition musicale Book
Imperial Painting
Untitled from Drawing Machine Two (b&w) Machine Drawing
VOGUE, Jan. 15, 1964 Ephemera
The Electronic Computer as an Artist (Canadian Art Magazine) Ephemera
The Bell System Technical Journal, Volume XLIII, Number 6 (November 1964) Ephemera
A Souvenir of the New York World’s Fair (punched card) Ephemera
Peace Through Understanding Dot-Matrix
Harold Cohen: Paintings 1960–1965 Book
Computer Graphics in Communication Book
Computer Music / Musik der Senoi (Mayala) Native Music Sound
Random Polygon Print
25/2/65 Nr. 14 Plotter
Nr. 6 Plotter
Rectangular Hatching (test print) Plotter
rot 19 - computer-grafik Book
Computer Generated Three Dimensional Movies (monograph) Ephemera
Mona by the Numbers (Blueline Variant) Plotter
Playboy, Vol. 12, No. 6 (June 1965) Ephemera
UV Light Choreogramme Oscilloscope
Untitled Choreogramme Photograph Print
16 4 66 Print
Flies Print
9 evenings: theatre and engineering Print
du atlantis, Vol. 26 (August 1966) Ephemera
futura 13 - frieder nake - computer grafik Print
Hommage à Paul Klee Plotter
Untitled Computer-Generated Choreogramme (for Otto Beckmann) Plotter
Design Quarterly 66/67: Design and the Computer Ephemera
3:4 rV (computer generated sculpture) Sculpture
Klartexte Mixed Media
Cosmopolitan, April 1967 Ephemera
Computerchoreographie: strukturbild Aplomb Print
#3 (v3) Print
#4 Print
Derrynan Suite Print
#3 Print
#5 Print
#3 (v2) Print
#1 Print
#2 Print
Bijutsu Techō 美術手帖, no. 288 Ephemera
Tenjō Sajiki Shimbun 天井桟敷新聞, no. 4 Ephemera
Nissenbi-ten 日宣美展 (Japan Advertising Artists Club Exhibition), 1967 Ephemera
Hummingbird II, 1967 Print
Flies Print
Flies (plotter drawing) Plotter
Random War Print
E.A.T News (Vol 1 No 1, January 15, 1967)) Ephemera
Drawings by Computer: Human-Figure Studies 1555045 - Human Figure, Sitting (side view) Print
Drawings by Computer: Human-Figure Studies 1555044 - Human Figure, Sitting (front view) Print
Boeing Man: Human Figure, Extreme Reaching Pose (Drawings by Computer: Human-Figure Studies 1555046) Print
Buon Natale 1967 e Felice Anno Nuovo / Merry Christmas 1967 and Happy New Year Sound