Computers and People, Vol. 24 No. 8 (August 1975) — Thirteenth Annual Computer Art Exposition, 1975

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Berkeley Enterprises, Newtonville MA, August 1975. 36 pp., OCR'd scan from bitsavers.org (Computers_And_Automation/Computers_and_People_V24_N08_197508.pdf), the source link. Thirteenth Annual Computer Art Exposition, 1975: pp. 8–27. Cover: A white-on-black computer graphic of a tiered, multi-storey structure with vertical masts and a starburst in a dotted night sky, captioned "NIGHT SCENE" by Lillian Schwartz (no machine stated; the roster gives her affiliation as Bell Labs, Murray Hill, N.J.). The introduction on page 8 calls this "the 13th Annual Art Issue" and "our largest and most varied issue, featuring the work of 41 artists from 11 countries." It is the first exposition explicitly edited by Grace C. Hertlein, now Art Editor on the masthead: "The selection, design, and layout of the Art Issue Section is by Professor Hertlein." Many works came from the International Conference of Computers and the Humanities exhibition (USC). No prizes are given; student entries are asterisked "in the hope of eliciting more student works," the youngest being 14-year-old Kelly Lam, who plotted random numbers from an HP-65 calculator. Hertlein also writes the editorial "A Defense of Computer Art and Graphics" (p. 6); page 2 announces her quarterly "Computer Graphics and Art". Most of the 70-odd works carry only title and name, making the section a European-heavy survey: Bonacic, Analivia Cordeiro's "Computer Dance", Barbadillo, Alexanco, Delgado, Sevilla, Johannesson and Kallin, Huitric and Nahas, Beckmann, Holzhauser, Franke, Bassett, Kawano, Zajec, Mikulic and Ziljak. Longer captions explain Vera Molnar's "RESEAU-TO" deformation program (IBM 370 with 2250 CRT) from her 1974 "Computer-Picture-Book", Sozo Hashimoto's "Varying Manifestation" series on a FACOM 230-35 display, Patrick Porter's "modulation" technique and Michael Davis's language ARTRAN. Manfred Mohr shows Cubic Limit drawings just exhibited in Paris; Lillian Schwartz has the cover "Night Scene" and "Nude Descending a Staircase". Page 27 closes with a roster of all 41 artists, cities and page numbers. Artists and works as credited: Jose-Luis Alexanco (captioned J. Alexanco) — Madrid, Spain — "Designs for Sculpture" (p. 9) · Manuel Barbadillo — Malaga, Spain — "Ogara" (canvas, p. 10) and "Lenea" (p. 16) · Klaus Bassett — Stuttgart, Germany — "Kubus-Serie" (p. 14) · Otto Beckmann — Wien, Austria — "Analog Graphics" (two images, p. 12) · Vladimir Bonacic — Jerusalem, Israel — "Design for Exterior Mural" (p. 8) · Charles Bromley — Taylor University / COMPUTRA, Upland, Ind. — "Space Circles" (©1973 COMPUTRA, p. 23) · Analivia Cordeiro — Sao Paulo, Brazil — "Computer Dance" (pp. 9 and 16) · Waldemar Cordeiro — Sao Paulo, Brazil — "Detail" and "Untitled work" (p. 10) · Michael Davis (student) — San Francisco State University, San Francisco, Calif. — "Nocturne" and "Man Running" (p. 25) — programmed on a CDC computer in his own language, ARTRAN · Gerardo Delgado — Sevilla, Spain — "Serigraphy" (p. 16) and "Serigraph" (p. 17) · Barbara Dwyer — (no city given) — "Three on a String" (p. 26) · Herbert Franke — Munich, Germany — "Analoggrafiken" (p. 14) · David Garrison — Buffalo, N.Y. — "Untitled work" (p. 11) · R. E. Greenlee (roster: W. E. Greenlee) — COMPUTRA, Upland, Ind. — "Untitled Work" (p. 24) — drawn with homemade computer and plotter · John Groener — M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass. — "Moonbat" (p. 24) · Jean-Claude Halgand (captioned J. C. Halgand) — Paris, France — "Detail, Sur I" (p. 14) · Sozo Hashimoto — Tokyo, Japan — "Varying Manifestation" Series: "Manifestation 1" to "Manifestation 4" (p. 21) — FACOM 230-35 with F6233A Graphic Display System, FORTRAN IV · Grace C. Hertlein — Chico, Calif. — "Design for Textile" (p. 17) · Karl Holzhauser (captioned K. Holzhauser) — Bielefeld, Germany — "Generative Photography" (nine images, p. 12) · Herve Huitric — Paris, France — two "Untitled work"s with Monique Nahas (pp. 11 and 15) · Tom Huston — COMPUTRA, Upland, Ind. — "Happy Birthday" (©1973 COMPUTRA, p. 23) · Sture Johannesson — Malmo, Sweden — "Bois" (p. 10) and "Untitled work" (p. 15), both with Sten Kallin · Sten Kallin — Malmo, Sweden — "Bois" (p. 10) and "Untitled work" (p. 15), both with Sture Johannesson · Hiroshi Kawano (captioned H. Kawano) — Tokyo, Japan — "Simulated Colour Mosaic" (p. 13) · Kelly Lam (student, age 14) — Annandale, Va. — "Untitled work" (p. 25) — random points from a Hewlett-Packard HP-65 pocket calculator, plotted and ink-traced by hand · Ruth Leavitt (captioned R. Leavitt) — Minneapolis, Minn. — "Herringbone Series" (p. 13) · Claude Marquette — Paris, France — "Detail, Tapestry" (p. 11) · Tomislaw Mikulic (captioned T. Mikulic) — Zagreb, Yugoslavia — "Untitled Serigraph" (p. 15) · Manfred Mohr — Paris, France — "Generative Drawings" from the Cubic Limit Series (p. 19; "This Series was shown in Paris, May-June 1975") · Vera Molnar — Paris, France — "Computer Icone" and "Carres" (p. 9); four illustrations from her 1974 "Computer-Picture-Book" (p. 20) — "conversational method" on a CRT screen 2250 + IBM 370, FORTRAN program "RESEAU-TO" · Monique Nahas — Paris, France — two "Untitled work"s with Herve Huitric (pp. 11 and 15) · Katy Owens (student) — Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. — "Dawn of Creative Computing" and "Moon Rise" (©1975 Katy Owens; serigraphs available from COMPUTRA, p. 22) · Duane Palyka (captioned Duane M. Palyka) — Salt Lake City, Utah — "Graphic" (p. 18) · Patrick Porter (graduate student) — Blacksburg, Va. — untitled generative "modulation" series (p. 26) · Lillian Schwartz — Bell Labs, Murray Hill, N.J. — "Night Scene" (front cover) and "Nude Descending a Staircase" (p. 17) · Soledad Sevilla — Madrid, Spain — "Detail of Large Work" (p. 16) · Michael Stephens (captioned M. Stephens) — Kansas City, Mo. — three "Detail"s (p. 13) · Jere Truex (student) — Taylor University / COMPUTRA, Upland, Ind. — "Octal Crystal" (©1973 COMPUTRA, p. 25) · Edward Zajec (captioned E. Zajec) — Trieste, Italy — from "The Cube: Theme and Variation" Series (p. 17) · Stephen Zeigler (captioned S. Zeigler) — Kansas City, Mo. — "Detail" (p. 14) · Vilko Ziljak — Zagreb, Yugoslavia — "Two Studies" (p. 19). Rest of the issue: Editorial "A Defense of Computer Art and Graphics" by Grace C. Hertlein (p. 6); announcement of the planned quarterly "Computer Graphics and Art" (p. 2); Forum letters from Edward D. Napier and R. D. Jamtgaard (p. 7) and Gerard Salton on ACM operations (p. 27); "The World of Translation" by Serge Raffet (p. 28); "'All the Language of Thought Calculable like Mathematics'" by Lawrence M. Clark (p. 30); "Daily Surveillance Sheet, 1987, from a Nationwide Data Bank" by Dennie Van Tassel (p. 31); "An 'Almost-True' Theorem Involving Tetrahedral Numbers" by Herbert E. Salzer and Jeffrey Mogul (p. 33); Games and Puzzles for Nimble Minds by Neil Macdonald (p. 35).