Oscillons
Ben Laposky, 1950

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Herbert Franke Oscilloscopy & Computer graphics
Georg Nees
Michael Noll Generated paintings similar to established artists
Frieder Nake plotter prints of matrix multiplications

First (?) graphic images generated by an electronic machine. Laposky (a mathematician and artist from Cherokee, Iowa) manipulated electronic beams acros the face of an oscilliscope and then recorded the patterns using hihg-speed film, color filters and special camera lenses.He called his oscillographic artworks oscillons and electronic abstractions

What I find important in this is the discovery that the computer can be used for artistic purposes.

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Guillermo Acevedo

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