Transjovian Pipeline

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
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David Em

1979

16"x20"
Cibachrome

Highlights

Description

Transjovian Pipeline (1979), was created by David Em while he was the artist-in-residence at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Inspired by the flybys of Jupiter and Saturn by Voyager I and II, and created on advanced DEC minicomputers, its 3D rendering was years ahead of other works of the time, and became one of those most reprinted computer images of the 1980s, showing up on posters, books, magazines, and more.

The piece was critical in helping the general public to accept the general use of computers, and to understand that computers were fun and capable of improving their everyday lives, not just for governments and big corporations.