Peripheral Vision: Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the Origins of Computer Art

Zabet Patterson

2015

Book

MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Platform Studies series
Hardback
xviii, 133 pages
9.5" tall

The Library

Description

The historian of digital media Zabet Patterson wrote this book about the art made at Bell Labs from 1961 to 1972 on the Stromberg-Carlson S-C 4020, a microfilm plotter with a cathode-ray screen and a film camera. She covers the Bell Labs engineer E. E. Zajac’s film of an orbiting satellite and the 1965 “Computer-Generated Pictures” show of his colleagues Béla Julesz and A. Michael Noll. She also writes on the Poemfields that Kenneth Knowlton made with Stan VanDerBeek, Bell Labs’ artist in residence, and on the computer artist Lillian Schwartz’s film Pixillation.

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