{"id":799,"date":"2006-05-04T18:39:12","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T00:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=799"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:38:57","slug":"calculations-pioneers-of-computer-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2006\/05\/04\/calculations-pioneers-of-computer-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculations: Pioneers of Computer Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span><strong>Thursday, May 4, 2006, 6pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<address>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/09\/Cuba450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2917\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/09\/Cuba450.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Cuba, Calculated Movements (1985).\" width=\"450\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Larry Cuba, Calculated Movements (1985).<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/address>\n<p>Decades before Hollywood CGI spectaculars, artists worked with computers to create an aesthetic specific to the machine. At IBM, Bell, and in their own home-built labs, they generated visionary spectacles from mathematical precision\u2013 stroboscopic patterns, kinetic rhythms, and volumetric illusions. Tonight\u2019s program is a cross-section of films by these early pioneers \u2014 from John Whitney\u2019s stunning, analog-computer-generated <em>Catalog <\/em><span>(1961) and the pulsating geometry of Lillian Schwartz\u2019s <em>Enigma<\/em><\/span><span> (1972) to the dense digital metaphysics of John Stehura\u2019s <em>Cybernetik 5.3 <\/em><\/span><span>(1965-69) and the allegorical characters of Peter Foldes\u2019 <em>Hunger <\/em><\/span><span>(1973). Also on the program: <em>Hummingbird<\/em><\/span><span> (1967, Charles Csuri); <em>Sunstone <\/em><\/span><span>(1979, Ed Emshwiller); <em>Calculated Movements <\/em><\/span><span>(1985, Larry Cuba); <em>Poemfield No. 5: Free Fall <\/em><\/span><span>(1966, Stan VanDerBeek); <em>Permutations<\/em><\/span><span> (1968, John Whitney).<\/span> 1961-1985, various directors, Canada\/USA, ca. 64 min, 16mm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span>[FRAY]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tonight\u2019s show is an instance of [FRAY], a distributed series of screenings, discussions, student initiated projects and a conference. [FRAY] traces intersecting hyperthreads of time, screen and code-based experimental New Media art hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\u2019s Department of Film, Video, and New Media.<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, May 4, 2006, 6pm Larry Cuba, Calculated Movements (1985). Decades before Hollywood CGI spectaculars, artists worked with computers to create an aesthetic specific to the machine. At IBM, Bell, and in their own home-built labs, they generated visionary spectacles from mathematical precision\u2013 stroboscopic patterns, kinetic rhythms, and volumetric illusions. Tonight\u2019s program is a cross-section [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2006\/05\/04\/calculations-pioneers-of-computer-animation\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Calculations: Pioneers of Computer Animation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[70,108,180,250,441],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-11","tag-animation","tag-canada","tag-early-video-art","tag-group-programs","tag-new-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8797,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/8797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}