A. Michael Noll • COMPUTER ART

 

A. Michael Noll created his earliest digital computer art in 1962 while he was working at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In an early experiment, he compared a Mondrian painting with a computer-generated pattern–an experiment which latter became classic. His "Computer-Generated Ballet" was the first use of a digital computer to create an animation of stick figures on a stage. In 1968 and 1970, he utilized his four-dimensional computer-animation method to create the title sequences for a movie and for a television special. Noll's early work in computer art was very pioneering and set the way for many others to follow. He wrote and spoke extensively about his computer art at the time. Examples of his work are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the USC Fisher Gallery, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

For examples of early computer art by Noll, please click here.

 

Computer Generated Animation:

"Computer-Generated Ballet" (1965).

"Four-Dimensional Hyperobjects" (1965).

"4-D Hyper Movie."

"Simulated Basilar Membrane Motion (3-D)" with R.C. Lummis and M. M. Sondhi.

"Incredible Machine" (1968) — main-title animation sequence for award-winning movie by Owen Murphy Productions for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company.

"The Unexplained" (1970) — main-title animation sequence for Encyclopedia Britannica Special by Lee Mendelson Productions for NBC and colorcast on April 3, 1970.

 

Shows (1965-1975) :

Howard Wise Gallery, New York City: 1965 (with Bela Julesz) "Computer-Generated Pictures" (early USA computer-art exhibit).

Fall Joint Computer Conference, Las Vegas: 1965 (with Vaughn Mason) "Computer-Art Exhibit."

Galarie im Hause Behr, Stuttgart, Germany: 1967 "Computergrafik" (organized by M. Krampen).

Studio f, Ulm, Germany: 1967 "Computergrafik" (organized by M. Krampen).

Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey: 1967 "Computer Sight and Sound."

House of Art, Brno, Czechoslovakia: 1968 "Computer Graphic."

Gallery, Jihlava, Czechoslovakia: 1968 "Computer Graphic."

Gallery, Cottwaldov, Czechoslovakia: 1968 "Computer Graphic."

Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, England: 1968 "Cybernetic Serendipity."

Galerije Grada Zagreba, Zagreb, Yugoslavia: 1968 "Tendencije 4."

Kubus Gallery, Hanover, Germany: 1969 "Computer-Kunst" (sponsored by Clarissa Contemporary Art and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gellellseheft).

University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain: 1979 "Generacion Automatica de Eormas Plasticas."

Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil: 1971 "Arteonica."

National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India: 1972 "Computer Art."

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio: 1972 "Computer Art."

Watson Art Gallery, Wheaton College, Amherst, Massachusetts: 1975 "Computer Art Exhibit."

 

Permanent Collections:

Large prints of "Gaussian-Quadratic" and "Computer Composition With Lines" are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Fisher Gallery at the University of Southern California.

Movie prints (16 mm) of computer animation are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Los Angeles).

Copies of various puplished papers by A. Michael Noll about his early computer art in the permanent collection of the Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA.

 


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