Tony Mingacci's List: Misinformation Debate

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• Received 17 December 2010; accepted 20 April 2011.
• • Information is dated and updated in 2011, but not current.
• First Monday, Volume 16, Number 6 - 6 June 2011
• © First Monday, 1995-2013.

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• Original Creators: Visionary Computer Animator John Whitney Sr
• By Kevin Holmes — Jun 11 2012
• Whitney’s work stands out because not only was he an early, bold experimenter in the field of computer graphics, he was also explicitly using computers to create works of art.
• He also realized the connection between generated imagery and music, using jazz as inspiration to create compositions in real-time.
• was his collaboration with Saul Bass on the title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo in 1958.
• his most famous and recognized work
• experimentations with his self-built mechanical analogue computers, which he built with his brother, James.
• Whitney built his first analogue computer in the late 1950s
• he converted a World War II M-5 anti-aircraft gun director to create a complex drawing machine
• This instrument gave him the ability to explore the world of motion and movement in a new kind of abstract space powered by computers.
• The customized gun was able to control cameras that would maneuver above the artwork and, astoundingly, perform the kinds of functions that would later be common on digital computers
• Whitney could create a peerless type of art while keeping ahead of the computing technology of the time
• The film demonstrates techniques like the slit-scan effect
• create motion graphics
• nfluential in computer art
• twisting forms and spirals, along with their bold use of color
• Whitney was a visionary in what he thought possible in the world of motion graphics and computer imaging, paving the way for today’s computer animation industry and the complex abstract animations that can be seen in the works of artists like Scott Draves.
• began to experiment with digital effect
• In 1966, Whitney became the first artist-in-residence at IBM
• 1970s he’d stopped using his analogue machinery and instead primarily used digital computers, which were used to create Arabesqu
• Arabesque explores the notion of “harmonic progression” and Islamic architecture and was created using a vector display
• This sane audiovisual synthesis is something that can still be seen in modern animations like Beeple’s IV.10,
• While Whitney’s technical accomplishments were remarkable, it was also his adoption of the computer as an artistic tool that makes him an antecedent to many of today’s digital artists working in the fields of animation and beyond.

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