Starry

Spent a chilly spring break day in NYC with my daughter, mostly at MoMA. The shot above is one of my favorite bits of exhibition design: you enter the gallery approaching a wall. As you get closer, you can see that there's a crowd on the other side looking at something intently. Drawn to find out what they're looking at you finally see that it's van Gogh's The Starry Night, like you've seen before, but this one is the real thing. Even though I know this, it hits me every time[ref]Sadly, since this was written, they've changed the layout of this gallery at MoMA, and the painting is just another one hanging on the wall.[/ref].
MOMA visit { .img-caption } My main goal was an exhibit on computer art starting in the 1950s, but it was too small and left out way too many important things (no Harold Cohen?)
Gallery entrance { .img-caption }
Printed circuit board silkscreen art { .img-caption }
An actual (working?) Thinking Machines CM-1 { .img-caption }
Source for "Computer Poem Field No. 2, VanDerBeek/Knowlton { .img-caption } "Computer Poem Field No. 2" was a collaboration between artist Stan VanDerBeek and computer scientist Ken Knowlton at AT&T Bell Labs, part of a series of pieces done in the late 60s: > Each film was constructed using Knowlton's BEFLIX computer language, which was based on FORTRAN. The films were programmed on a IBM 7094 computer. The films were created in black and white, with color added later by Brown and Olvey. This particular version is taken from a film with some color decay. View Change History