User:Autopilot/Grace Hertlein

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ComputersArsandPeopleV25N08197608_26997487/page/6/mode/2up "I believe we have a more mature, poetic art form today, and that if current trends continue, by 1980 we shall see a fully devleoped, accepted art form made possible by the use of computers".

"the specific hardware developments of Evans and Sutherland in the areas of solid appearing graphics will cause a genuine revolution in utliitarina and art graphics 9and films). The wire-care or "line emphasis" will give way to deimsional, "solid" graphics"

http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/Award/11

Grace C. Hertlein began to work as an artist in the mid 1940s, showing her work in individual exhibitions from 1959. As a friend of the chief editor and co-publisher of the magazine Computers and Automation, she played a decisive part in the concept for the Computer Art Contest, the winner of which was presented on the cover of each year’s August edition.

When teaching, she introduced IT specialists to Computer Art, while also making artists aware of computer programmes. Hertlein regards this interdisciplinary approach as extremely productive, but she found it difficult to realise initially, in face of opposition.

“I am an interdisciplinary person, who might have taught in an English, Art or a Philosophy Department. I was, after all, not a pure scientist – merely an artist with the ability to write and speak, to philosophize.”

" The teaching of computer art is a bridge that unites ‘Art and Science’.Art Departments find the subject too technical. Computer departments find the area too artistic. "

In her late years, Hertlein continued to write philosophical poetry, and composing computer music (since 2004).

exhibitions http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/exhibition/11 Ex Machina – Early Computer Art until 1979. The Collections Franke and other donations at the Kunsthalle Bremen. Exhibition in honour of the 80th birthday of Herbert W. Franke.

A comprehensive catalog appeared upon the occasion of Kunsthalle Bremen for the first time showing their recently acquired substantial collection. It consists actually of two separate collections, brought together over many years by Herbert W. Franke, himself a pioneer of computer art, an important author and theoretician of digital art, and a writer of science fiction novels (among other activities).

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/research-journal/issue-no.-6-summer-2014/cataloguing-change-women,-art-and-technology/

Grace Hertlein, like Molnar, was born in 1924 and also began to use computers to make art in 1968. Hertlein studied art, printing and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago (1961-5) and went on to attain a BFA (1968) and MFA (1970) in sculpture at California State University, Chico. (12) She first exhibited her computer art in 1969, when it was selected for a show at the Fall Joint Computer Conference, Las Vegas. (13) Hertlein was conscious of her status as one of only a few women working with computer art, writing in her 1970 resume:

Since 1970 my work has been included on an invitational basis in all the major computer art exhibitions. As an example, 20 artists were invited to show their work in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1973. I was one of those 20 artists, the only woman in the world to participate in this important exhibition. (14)

Hertlein played an important role in championing The Computer Art Contest. (15) This was one of the earliest, if not the first, award dedicated to computer art. (16) The magazine Computers and Automation launched the contest in its February 1963 issue, although Hertlein only became involved with the contest when she became arts editor for the publication in 1974. Hertlein worked alongside Edmund C. Berkeley, chief editor and co-publisher of the magazine, to develop the concept of the contest. The winner of the competition was subsequently featured on the cover of each year’s August issue. (17)

References are very extensive.

In 1974 Hertlein was art editor of Computers and People (the magazine previously known as Computers and Automation). She was the art editor for the magazine again in 1976, 1977, 1979 and 1980. Hertlein wrote extensively on computer art and was an editor of Computer Graphics and Art (from 1976 to 1978) also published by Berkeley Enterprises Inc.

http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/exhibition/269

This exhibition was one of the three sections of the Tendencies 5 (fifth international event of the New Tendencies), which took place from June 1st to July 1th, 1973. It was dedicated to visual research by means of computers and it aimed to show that there was no crisis of motivation and method in this field, only critical situations in relation to such research. The “computer visual research” section reinforced what early representatives of the New Tendencies said about “art” and the social position and the tasks of artists-investigators, which had become more pronounced in visual visual research by means of machines. The exhibition of computerists was also an occasion to reexamine the problems which have sprung up after the dissemination of views based on information theory. [Radoslav Putar. Originally published in tendencije 5, exhib. cat., Galerija suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb, 1973, n. p. in: Rosen, 2011

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Grace C. Hertlein, professor at California State University, is a famous computer artist. She started her work in the mid-1940s and had her first exhibition, at the “Fall Joint Computer Conference”, in 1969. She has her unique understanding toward computer art. In her report, she listed 13 examples of new computer art approaches and styles. Unlike Molnar and Nees, her computer artwork is no way near geographic style. Instead of the neatness and order, the representational sign of computer artwork, Hertlein’s artworks are full of sketchy lines, organic elements, and natural themes. Just like what she wrote, “distortion algorithms are applied to static-looking designs, resulting in feelings of energy and tension”

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Grace C. Hertlein studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1961–1965) and sculpture at Chico State College (B.F.A. 1968 and M.F.A. 1970). 1970–1998, professor at the department of computer science, California State University, Chico. 1974–1976 art editor of the journal »Computers and People« (formerly »Computers and Automation«), 1976–1982 editor of the yearbook »Computer Graphics and Art«. She lives in Chico, CA, USA. Exhib.: 1969, exhibition at the “Fall Joint Computer Conference,” Las Vegas, NV. 1970, »Data Designs«, State University of New York, Brockport, NY. 1970, »Computer Graphic 70«, Brunel University, Uxbridge. Lit.: G. H., »Computer-Aided Graphics in Dimensional Form«, M.A. thesis, Chico, CA, 1970. G. H. “An Artist Views Discovery Through Computer-Aided Graphics,” in: »Computers and Automation«, August 1970, pp. 25–26.

Computer art for computer people - a syllabus 1977 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/965141.563902

http://www.new-tendencies.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=60

— Grace C. Hertlein

(1924, Chicago, IL, USA) studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1961–1965) and sculpture at Chico State College (B.F.A. 1968 and M.F.A. 1970). 1970–1998 professor at the department of computer science, California State University, Chico. 1974–1976 art editor of the journal Computers and People (formerly Computers and Automation), 1976–1982 editor of the yearbook Computer Graphics and Art. She lives in Chico, CA, USA.

Exhib.: 1969, exhibition at the “Fall Joint Computer Conference,” Las Vegas, NV. 1970, Data Designs, State University of New York, Brockport, NY. 1970, Computer Graphics 70, Brunel University, Uxbridge.

Lit.: G. H., Computer-Aided Graphics in Dimensional Form, M.A. thesis, Chico, CA, 1970. G. H. “An Artist Views Discovery Through Computer-Aided Graphics,” in: Computers and Automation, August 1970, pp. 25–26.

https://azprojectsblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/when-the-machine-made-art_-the-troubled-hi-grant-d-taylor.pdf

long book, with lots of citations.