Plastic Paper: CODE IN MOTION: EARLY COMPUTER ANIMATION
07/05/2011 (19:00 - 20:15)
CODE
IN MOTION: EARLY COMPUTER ANIMATION Curated by Clint Enns | Various Artists |
84min.
Presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre
Saturday May 7th, 7:00pm
Park Theatre - 698 Osborne
Admission $7
The works in this program explore both the
mathematical precision of computer graphics, as well as the uncontrolled, the
uncontrollable and the random. Included are both early examples of
experimental and narrative computer animated films including work by John
Whitney, Sr., John Stehura, James Whitney, Stan Vanderbeek and Kenneth
Knowlton, Lillian Schwartz, Pierre Hébert and Peter Foldès. As an added
bonus, an innovative computer generated commercials produced by Robert Abel and
Associates will be shown between each film.
Includes the films:
Catalog – John Whitney, Sr., 1961, 7
minutes
Cybernetik 5.3 (1960-65) – John Stehura, 1965, 8 minutes
Lapis – James Whitney, 1966, 10 minutes
Poemfield no.2 – Stan Vanderbeek and Kenneth Knowlton, 1966, 6 minutes
The Artist and The Computer – Lillian Schwartz, 1976, 11 minutes
Around Perception –
Pierre Hébert, 1968, 16 minutes
La Faim
– Peter Foldès,
1974, 11 minutes
Various Robert Abel Commercials, Various Dates, 7 minutes
