Computers and Automation, Vol. 19 No. 8 (August 1970) — Eighth Annual Computer Art Contest

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Berkeley Enterprises, Newtonville MA, August 1970. 68 pp., OCR'd scan from bitsavers.org (Computers_And_Automation/197008.pdf), the source link. Eighth Annual Computer Art Contest: pp. 13–24. Cover: A black-and-white maze-like field of dot-textured cells, "Tapestry I" by Lillian Schwartz and Ken Knowlton, a frame from the Bell Telephone Laboratories film "Pixillation", captioned "8th Annual Computer Art Contest -- First Prize". The section (pp. 13-24) opens with "Tapestry II" and the award note: first prize to Lillian Schwartz and Ken Knowlton of Bell Telephone Laboratories for "Tapestry I", frames from the AT&T film "Pixillation" made as 240 x 340 dot arrays on a Stromberg-Datagraphics 4060 microfilm printer under an IBM 360/50, via a system for "global and local operations on two-dimensional internal arrays of alphanumeric characters". Judges are named for the first time -- Leslie Mezei and Berkeley -- and "one of the strong elements considered by the judges this year was the new, creative uses of the computer as an artist's tool". Nearly 120 drawings came from France, Holland, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Sweden and the U.S.; the p. 24 list asterisks the published entrants. The honorable mentions: Manfred Mohr's first C&A appearance with "Stairways"; Goran Sundqvist's circle-program pictures from a Tektronix 611 terminal on a SAAB D22; Geurts and Meertens' "Crystallization", ALGOL 60 on the Electrologica X8 imposing neighbor-color rules on a random grid until it stabilizes; Sozo Hashimoto's transformed Japanese arabesque (IBM 7040); Sumner's ALGOL "In Wilderness"; Sandia S-C 4020 pieces (Robbins, Hendricks). Grace C. Hertlein's "City Painting" and "The Field" -- IBM 1620 plots drawn with nylon brushes fitted to the plotter in brown, green and gold inks on mylar -- lead into her article (pp. 25-26): "The limits of the computer artistically are the limits of the artist's imagination, and the degree to which the artist accepts the computer as an aid to his creation." First prize: Lillian Schwartz and Ken Knowlton, "Tapestry I", Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J.; a frame from the computer-generated film "Pixillation" produced for American Telephone and Telegraph Co.; 240 x 340 dot array on a Stromberg-Datagraphics 4060 microfilm printer controlled by an IBM 360/50. Also: "Tapestry II" by Schwartz and Knowlton printed on p. 13 as a second entry.; All other drawings printed receive honorable mention; judges were Leslie Mezei (University of Toronto) and Edmund C. Berkeley.. Artists and works as credited: Lillian Schwartz and Ken Knowlton -- Bell Telephone Labs, Murray Hill, NJ -- "Tapestry I" (cover, first prize), "Tapestry II" -- frames from the film "Pixillation"; Stromberg-Datagraphics 4060 microfilm printer, IBM 360/50 · Manfred Mohr -- 58 Bld. Latour-Maubourg, Paris 7, France -- "Stairways" -- no equipment stated · Lloyd Sumner -- Computer Creations, Charlottesville, VA -- "In Wilderness" -- Burroughs B5500 and CalComp 565 plotter, programmed in ALGOL (Copyright 1970 by Computer Creations) · Grace C. Hertlein -- Computer Science Dept., Chico State College, Chico, CA -- "City Painting", "The Field" -- IBM 1620 and CalComp digital plotter, IBM Drafting System/FORTRAN; nylon brushes in the plotter's flow-pen assembly, inks on mylar overlays · Sozo Hashimoto -- Komazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo -- "Source Pattern -- and Three Transformations" (traditional Japanese arabesque transformed) -- IBM 7040, FORTRAN · Goran Sundqvist -- Kraftdata AB, Stockholm -- "Fossil II", "Spirals", "Firebird" (caption "Fire Bird") -- Tektronix 611 display terminal connected to a SAAB D22 computer · Leonard Kilian -- University of Notre Dame -- "Crosses", "Mask", "Landscape" (with Robert Venn) -- FORTRAN on a Univac 1107 with CalComp plotter · Robert Venn -- University of Notre Dame -- "Landscape" (with Leonard Kilian) · Leo Geurts (list: Leo J. M. Geurts) and Lambert Meertens -- Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam -- "Crystallization" (four drawings; regularity imposed sweep by sweep on a random black/white square field) -- ALGOL 60 on an Electrologica X8 · Donald K. Robbins -- Advanced Techniques Div., Sandia Corp., Albuquerque -- "Evolution" -- Univac 1106, Stromberg-DatagraphiX 4020 plotter · Leigh Hendricks (list: Mrs. Leigh Hendricks) -- Sandia Corp., Albuquerque -- "Entropy" -- IBM 7090, Stromberg-DatagraphiX S-C 4020 · Entered but not published (names-and-addresses list, p. 24): David Caulkins (Los Angeles); Ruth Dayhoff (National Biomedical Research Foundation, Silver Spring); James G. Dempsey (Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati); Steve Derby (Phoenix); D. J. DiLeonardo (Westinghouse Bettis); J. A. Elenbaas (Dow Chemical, Midland); Darel Eschbach (University of Toledo); Charles Klein (Sugar Grove, IL); Auro Lecci (Firenze); Harvey N. Lerman (Maitland, FL); James S. Lipscomb (Belmont, MA); Charles Mattox (Albuquerque); E. M. Pass (Georgia Institute of Technology); T. Radford (Cape Town, South Africa); Anton G. Salecker (New York State Dept. of Transportation); Abad E. Sandoval (Los Alamos); Richard W. Seeley (Long Beach); Bharat K. Shah (Cessna Aircraft Co., Wichita); A. B. Sperry (Hewlett Packard, Loveland); Dr. Evan Harris Walker (Havre de Grace, MD); Stan Webber (Armco Research, Middletown, OH). Rest of the issue: Editorial "Computers and Truth" by Edmund C. Berkeley; "An Artist Views Discovery Through Computer-Aided Graphics" by Grace C. Hertlein; "Interactive Computer Graphics in Architecture" by Sheldon Lee Anonsen; "A Prose Glossary of APL" by Harry Katzan, Jr.; "The Dilemma of the Systems Analyst" by Elias M. Awad; "Computers and Social Change: Uses -- and Misuses" by David F. Foster; "The Crossroads of Decision" by Thomas J. Watson, Jr.; a section on the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Berkeley preface, Theodore Charach statement); Report from Great Britain by Ted Schoeters; Readers' Forum (ACM Counter Conference, computers for the blind); Numbles and Problem Corner.