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Diptych by Tony Robin in 1992. Robin has spent his career exploring the "hypercube" (4d cube). Here plotted they are 4d cubes in 3d space on a 2d canvas. These are quite large at around 60x48 in. Plotted and hand colored with watercolor.

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Hi plotter friends. I've been collecting a *lot* of plotter works lately. Some well known artists, some lesser known. Some pieces (quite) old and some new. Some by artists in this group! I'll post some of them here over the next few weeks. Some of my favorite pieces are older and mostly unknown. It's always fun to track down the artists from the 70s and 80s and talk to them. Here's "People" by George Hart. He's better know as a sculpture but in the early 80s spent a some time plotting with an HP9845 - the famous line of first workstations by HP - and an 8 pen plotter. This piece is from 1982.

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Aaron Marcus. Noise Barrier. 1974 Acquired from the artist himself. He's out there, available, and super nice. One of the last OGs.

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Untitled, Monique Nahas, 1972 Painted on IBM computer punch cards based on instructions from a computer. Early explorations in gen art.

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GM based punks! Missed the mint but had to pick one up on secondary.

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I'm casting into the void my historical computer art collection at /hist-comp-art . Come join, learn where gen art started, talk, and whatever!

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I'm casting into the void my historical computer art collection at /hist-comp-art. Come join, learn where crypto art started, talk, and whatever!

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Plotter output of topological mappings, Ruth Leavitt, 1977. Ruth created these will a calcomp plotter. They were gen art designs for future sculptures. Ruth was a pioneer in computer art. This is my first piece to go on loan to a museum and will be shown in Lichtenstein this summer and Amsterdam next summer.

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Computer house of cards by Eames. Created as souvenirs for IBM at the world's fair in Japan, 1970. The set shows a variety of inner & outer workings of computers. Made before the invention of the computer chip. They were also featured at the recent LACMA exhibit. Original sets still available on the Eames website.

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Untitled plotter drawing, 1969, Gerhard Von Graevenitz. Von G used dice when he started creating gen art in the 50s. But had moved to computers by this point. If you're interested in more historical digital art I'm trying to build a community at /hist-comp-art

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Image from NASA-2, the first computer to create color images. This is one of the 1st color pixel images ever. Created as part of the new shuttle simulator program. View from the front. 8 prints in the set. I talked to Bob Schumacker who built NASA-2 and who verified the image as legit. Art? Maybe. Cool in any case.

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Gerhard von Graevenitz. 1969 untitled plotter drawing. Von G was co-founder of the New Tendencies group in the 60s. He started making Gen art in the 50s by rolling dice. This piece is from after he switched to using computers. Original plots recently discovered and some on display currently at RCM gallery in Paris.

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