Kerry Strand

Kerry Strand (b. 1940) programmed some of the most widely circulated images in early computer art — the demonstration plots of California Computer Products (CalComp) in Anaheim, where he worked in the programming department from 1966 to 1972. His Hummingbird, drawn by the CalComp 770 magnetic-tape system and model 702 flatbed plotter in a thirty-minute plot, appeared in Cybernetic Serendipity (ICA, London, 1968) and won first prize in the 1968 Computer Art Contest, with Gary Craigmile handling color and plotting. An engineering and physics student at the University of Washington, he served in the US Army from 1961 to 1963, finished a physics degree at Cal State Fullerton in 1972, and spent the rest of his working life — 1972 to 2007 — as a programmer analyst at Boeing. He lives in Everett, Washington. The V&A, the Science Museum, and the ZKM all hold his CalComp plots.

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