The Bre Pettis Collection of Computer Art

All movements

Bell Labs

In 1960s New Jersey, Bell Telephone Laboratories engineers — A. Michael Noll, Leon Harmon, Ken Knowlton and colleagues — made some of the first digital images and computer films in America, often on the sly between research projects.

Bell Labs
Computer Nude (Studies in Perception I) (1967) by Leon Harmon, from the collection.