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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1280 objects, 394 artists
Nourathar: The Fine Art of Light Color Playing Book
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
Films in Review, Vol. 5, No. 6 (June–July 1954) Ephemera
Four-Panel Oscilloscope Photo Oscilloscope
Cosmopolitan, April 1967 Ephemera
A House of Dust Prose/Poetry
Eye of the Beholder / Eye II Plotter
Seated Nude (AP) Print
CB 7-70 Plotter
Beasts in a Field Plotter
The Computer in Art Book
Untitled (punch cards) Painting
Connections of Points by Arc Sequences Print
Structures Comprising Superposed Rectangles Print
Explosion of Ordered Structures Print
Quadrilatères Entrebaillés Plotter
Body Print of Mary Textile
Untitled (red) Print
Untitled (blue) Print
Diamond 2D design Plotter
Inner City Variation III Print
Inner City Variation II Print
Untitled (digital painting) Print
Sketchbook Book
Untitled computer plotter drawing Plotter
Untitled Print
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 1, No. 2 (May 1976) Ephemera
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 1, No. 3 (August 1976) Ephemera
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 1, No. 4 (November 1976) Ephemera
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 1976) Ephemera
Artist and Computer Book
Computer Graphics and Art subscription renewal letter Ephemera
Computer Graphics and Art (set of 13 issues) Ephemera
The Bangerts: Some Steps Along the Path Ephemera
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 2, No. 4 (November 1977) Ephemera
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 2, No. 1 (February 1977) Ephemera
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 2, No. 3 (August 1977) Ephemera
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 2, No. 2 (May 1977) Ephemera
Plotter output of topological 3D Mappings Plotter
Harmonices Mundi Sound
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 3, No. 1 (February 1978) Ephemera
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 3, No. 3 (August 1978) Ephemera
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 3, No. 2 (May 1978) Ephemera
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 3, No. 4 (November 1978) Ephemera
Letter from Grace C. Hertlein to G. Verroust, February 19, 1978 Ephemera
Computer Printed Fleece Dress Drawing
Ana Sacerdote de Guthmann (Galería Lagard, Buenos Aires, 1979) Ephemera
Lillian 2 (Picturephone Self Portrait) Print
Man in New York Dot-Matrix
The Rocker Patti Smith Textile
Digital Visual Image Series I #10 Print
DES08X3 Plotter
Computer Graphics and Art, Vol. 4: 1979 Yearbook Ephemera
Computer Code Lame Shirt Textile
See the Beautiful Sea XXIV Print
See the Beautiful Sea XI Print
Runway Dress Textile
Set, Dress, Pants Textile
Androgyny (6 Women + 6 Men) Photograph
High Performance, No. 22 (Vol. VI, No. 2), 1983 Ephemera
Color Veil (Head series) Print
BYTE, Vol. 9, No. 10 (September 1984): Computer Graphics Ephemera
Computer Cola, For Andy Print
BIG MOMA Poster (super-sized edition) Print
MOMA Poster, 1984 Print
Untitled Self-Portrait Print
ClickArt: Personal Graphics for the Macintosh Algorithm
Homage to Munch: the Artist Print
Homage to Johns: 0 through 9 Print
Constellation III (The Play of Planets) Print
Magnitron Print
Spacescope Print
MOMA poster, 1985 Print
Composites: Computer-Generated Portraits Book
Does It Make Sense Print
Immigrant Child Print
Labyrinthe: City 3 Print
Mona Leo Print
Devil Series #3 Print
Homage to Hockney Print
Creative Computer Imaging Book
Self Portrait Print
Ear Ache Mixed Media
Tea Leaves Mixed Media
Leo & I Print
Lettres de ma mère (portfolio) Print
Lettres de ma mère (3) Print
Lettres de ma mère (1) Print
Lettres de ma mère (5) Print
Lettres de ma mère (4) Print
Lettres de ma mère (6) Print
Lettres de ma mère (2) Print
First Transmission Print
Unseen Worlds Sound
Soviet Union Lives (RAM Flag Series) Painting
Electronic Avalanche Print
Sociotecture Print
The Computer Artist's Handbook: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications Book
Images Du Futur Poster Print
Child Support Print
Untitled Print
Coffee Break Print
www.beetles Print
Untitled Print
Arbeiten am Computer. Originaltintenstrahldrucke 1998–1999 Book
The Computer in the Visual Arts Book
Art/Women/California 1950–2000: Parallels and Intersections Book
Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age Book
Joan Truckenbrod (Telos Portfolio Collection) Book
The Art of Sonia Landy Sheridan Book
Véra Molnar: une rétrospective, 1942/2012 Book
Pairing of Polarities: The Life and Art of Sonya Rapoport Book