From: roger.kockaerts (roger.kockaerts@chello.be)
Date: 02/07/00-04:07:10 AM Z
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Campos & Davis Photos wrote:
>
>> This list is supposed to be about non silver processes so I ask this
>> question in the knowledge that digital imaging is a real non silver
>> process!
>> The history of the photographic image is well documented. In the UK we
>> read that Fox Talbot is considered the Father of photography, although
>> others were working on processes at the time which used
>> electromagnetic radiation to produce an image aswell.
>> Can anyone tell me the supposed history of digital imaging? When was
>> the first digital image made?
>> Was it rastor or vector? Who thought up the idea of rastor images? I
>> suspect this sort of information will need to be collated by
>> historians someday when all but a few images become digital.
Mathematicians and scientists have been aware of the graphic fascination of
Lissajous figures even before cathode ray oscilloscopes existed. According
to information from Ben F. Laposky, C. Burnett was the first to propose this
kind of application for Lissajous figures as early as 1937.
Ben F. Laposky (USA) provided the first major initiative, and thus the
origin of graphics generated by means of electronic machines and computer
installations since 1950.
In 1960 Kurd Alsleben (D) started to make drawings by means of an analogue
system and a mechanical drawing installation.
The year 1965 witnessed the first exhibition of digital graphics in the USA
at the Howard Wise Gallery in NY.
"Cybernetic Serendipidity" an exhibition suggested by Max Bense and
organized by Jasia Reichardt took place in London in 1968 and aroused world-
wide interest for computer art and especially for computer graphics.
I myself have been active in the computer graphics field since the early
1970's under the pseudonym of Roger Coqart and have published a number of
yearly "Computer Generated Visual Arts Bibliographies" since 1976 before the
publication "Aspects: the Computer in Visual Art" edited by ICSAC
(Internationaal Centrum voor Structuuranalyse en Constructivisme), Brussels,
1981. I also have a nice collection of early international computer graphics
work which I will exhibit shortly at Atelier pH7 in Brussels.
Prof. Dr. Herbert Franke published a very good book on "Computer Graphics -
Computer Art" with an extensive chapter on the history of the medium, at
Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo in 1971, second
edition: 1985. ISBN 0-387-15149-4.
Greetings
Roger
Roger Kockaerts
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