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American artist Richard Fraenkel explored new forms of image making during the late 1960s through collaborations between artists and programmers, including the computer generated plotter drawing Picture Frame created with Jef Raskin through an E.A.T. competition.

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Richard Fraenkel is an American artist and educator whose work included painting, Xerox processes, and computer generated drawings. He studied at the University of Chicago, the University of Southern California, and La Escuela de Pintura y Escultura in Mexico, and later taught painting at institutions including Pennsylvania State University and SUNY New Paltz. During the 1960s and 1970s, Fraenkel participated in exhibitions connected to experimental media and collaborations between artists and engineers. In 1968, he collaborated with programmer Jef Raskin on Picture Frame, a computer generated plotter drawing that extended the decorative frame into the image itself. The work was produced through an E.A.T. competition and was later exhibited in The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.