Computers and Automation, Vol. 22 No. 8 (August 1973) — Eleventh Annual Computer Art Exposition

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Berkeley Enterprises, Newtonville MA, August 1973. 52 pp., OCR'd scan from bitsavers.org (Computers_And_Automation/197308.pdf), the source link. Eleventh Annual Computer Art Exposition: pp. 8–21. Cover: A white-on-black plotter drawing of tall, flame-like bundles of flowing parallel lines rising from a base, captioned "FIRE" with the line "11th Annual Computer Art Exposition"; credited on the contents page as "Fire" by Lloyd Sumner (no machine stated; his other drawing in the issue is marked Copyright Computer Creations 1972). The section opens on page 8 with Lloyd Sumner's "A Beginning to 'Why?'" above an editorial note marking the turning point of the series: for ten years the August issue had held contests judged "with the temerity of personal preferences," but since those "rather arbitrary standards" had been questioned "by more than a few of our professional friends," as of August 1973 the "Art Contest" becomes the "Art Exposition": "We have told the management to take the judges' platform away." No prizes or honourable mentions are given. Over 75 drawings arrived; a Twelfth Exposition is announced for August 1974. Sumner's "Fire" is the cover. Seventeen works by 14 published artists follow with short technical captions: Norton Starr's "Harmonic Variation, 5" (IBM 360-75, WATFIV, Calcomp drum plotter) and full-page "Archimedean Spiral" of complete graphs on 3 to 20 vertices; Geurts and Meertens' "Coalesced Triangles" (ALGOL 60, drawn by hand from printed coordinates); Manfred Mohr's "Cluster - Phobia", where "the idea of a printed circuit is basic to this program" (FORTRAN IV, CDC 6600); Grace Hertlein's randomized "Picasso Derivation"; A. B. Sperry's date-seeded polygons from an HP 9820A calculator; Dunker and Shao's PICS tube-module perspectives; Wade Shaw's spark-tablet drawings on an SD 4020 microfilm recorder; and two Drakula Series drawings by H. W. Franke. Page 21 lists all 25 entrants, asterisking the 19 published; unpublished entrants include Sozo Hashimoto and Vera Molnar (printed "Vers"). Page 5 notes the magazine becomes Computers and People on January 1, 1974. Artists and works as credited: Lloyd Sumner — Computer Creations, Draper, VA — "Fire" (front cover) and "A Beginning to 'Why?'" (Copyright Computer Creations 1972) — machine not stated · Norton Starr — Mathematics Dept., Amherst College, Amherst, MA (U.S.A.) — "Harmonic Variation, 5" and "Archimedean Spiral" — Calcomp 30" drum plotter from an IBM 360-75 programmed in WATFIV (Archimedean Spiral produced at the University of Waterloo (Ontario) Computing Centre) · Leo Geurts and Lambert Meertens — Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, Holland (The Netherlands) — "Coalesced Triangles" — ALGOL 60 program on a Honeywell-Bull time-sharing teletype terminal, drawing rendered by hand from output coordinates · Manfred Mohr — 58 Bld. Latour-Maubourg, Paris (France) — "Cluster - Phobia" — FORTRAN IV on a CDC 6600, plotted with an x,y incremental plotter · Grace C. Hertlein — Computer Science Dept., California State University, Chico, CA — "A Picasso Derivation" (from the Automated Man Series; Copyright 1972 Computra) — machine not stated · Thomas J. Huston — Computra, Box 608, Upland, IN — "Numerical Noel" and "Sonic Boom" — FORTRAN, drawn on an IBM 1130-CalComp plotter · Clifford Geddes and Marsha Caunt — California State University, Chico, CA (U.S.A.) — "In Nature's Realm" (from a beginning class in computer art) — machine not stated · A. B. Sperry — Editor, HP Keyboard, Hewlett Packard, Loveland, CO (U.S.A.) — "123173 (December 31, 1973)" and "123073" — Hewlett-Packard Model 9820A Programmable Calculator with a 9862A X-Y Plotter · Kenneth F. Dunker and Paul Shao — Engineering Annex, Dept. of Architecture, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (U.S.A.) — "Dy Siu" and "Chin Hou" — PICS, a Fortran IV program, on an IBM System/360 Model 65 with Calcomp Incremental Plotter · Daniel VanArsdale — 5361 Perkins Rd., Oxnard, CA (U.S.A.) — "Automated Construction" — DatagraphiX 4460 COM Recorder and IBM 7094, coded in FORTRAN · Wade D. Shaw — Basic Software Group, Science Research Council, Atlas Computer Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Berkshire, England — "Helmet" and "Waveform" — SD 4020 microfilm recorder, FORTRAN on a PDP-15, hand-drawn input from a spark tablet · H. W. Franke (Dr. Herbert W. Franke) — 8191 Puppling Nr. 40, West Germany — "Square Affair" and "A Bit of the Bubbly" (Drakula Series; Copyright 1972 Computra) — pen and ink drawings from a plotter and computer · D. Eastwell — 14404-87 Ave., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada — submitted entry, not reproduced · E. John Groener, Jr. — Center for Space Research, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA — submitted entry, not reproduced · Sozo Hashimoto — 2-28-2 Komazawa, Setagaya-Ku, Tokyo, Japan — submitted entry, not reproduced · Vers Molnar [sic; Vera Molnar] — 54, Rue Halle, Paris 14e, France — submitted entry, not reproduced · Tord Tengstrand — Research Inst. of Swedish National Defence, Stockholm, Sweden — submitted entry, not reproduced · Peter Wu — California State University, Chico, CA — submitted entry, not reproduced. Rest of the issue: Computer Poems gathered by Richard W. Bailey, with pieces by Gus Garside and Robin Shirley, Robert Gaskins, Jr., and Louis T. Milic (p. 7); "Competitive Restructuring of Monopoly Situations" by Dan L. McGurk (p. 22); "How to Read by Computer" by G. Howard Poteet (p. 26); policy statement "Unsettling, Disturbing, Critical" (p. 27); "Computer Programming Using Natural Language - Part 3" by Edmund C. Berkeley, Andy Langer and Casper Otten (p. 28); "Lessons of Watergate - Part 7" by Richard E. Sprague (p. 36); editorial "Skepticism" by Berkeley (p. 6); Numbles by Neil Macdonald (p. 35); Newsletter, New Contracts, New Installations, Monthly Computer Census and Calendar.