| The History of Crossover Art |
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| - Digital Art - Charles A. Csuri |
Charles A.
Csuri is an artist and computer graphics pioneer and professor at the Ohio State
University. He exhibited his paintings in New York City from 1955-1965. His
early work is in the collections of Walter P. Chrysler, movie actor Jose Ferrer,
pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and sculptor George Segal.
In 1964, he experimented with computer graphics technology and in 1965 he began
creating computer animated films. The 4th International Experimental Film Festival,
Brussels, Belgium, 1967, awarded him the prize for animation. His work was highlighted
in the exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity held at The Institute for Contemporary
Art, London, England, 1968. One of Charles Csuri's computer films is in the
collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
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Charles A. Csuri: Random War. 1967 |
Fig.:
Charles A. Csuri: Random War. 1968. Click
on the thumbnail to see the large version of the drawing.
Fig.: Computer Technique Group: Running Cola is Africa. 1963.
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"A drawing was made of a single toy soldier and this became a data set. The computer program used a random number generator. The random numbers determined the distribution and position of 400 soldiers on a battlefield. A transformatation involving rotations was used to determine the angle of each soldier. One side was called the 'Red' and the other one the 'Black' and the names of real people were given to the program. Another program assigned military rands and army serial numbers also at random. The random number generator decided the following information. (1) Dead (Charles Csuri)
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