Copper Frances Giloth : From Video Games to Video Art, 1980
From Video Games to Video Art, 1980
Excerpt from an interview with Bob Sirott, CBS News at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
From Video Games to Video Art is an interactive computer installation and a series of plotter drawings created using this software program. Using a joystick and buttons the user to could create a simple image and then using that image and its 7 simple symmetries create more complex drawings. Additional software and hardware designed by T. DeFanti and D. Harris. 10 plotter drawings were included in the exhibition. Hardware: Datamax Zgrass UV-1 machine with a custom interface.
Exhibitions:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, “Video Art: The Electronic Medium,” Sept-Oct 1980. Interactive installation and a series of plotter drawings created using the Symmetry software. Additional software and hardware designed by T. DeFanti and D. Harris. 15 plotter drawings, multiple sizes, 1980.
Courtesy of Copper Giloth.
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