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Chester "Chet" Nelson Kasnowski (born 23 January 1944, Perth Amboy, New Jersey), Vermont artist and art instructor, is recognized for mail art creations, sequence drawings and a Dada-influenced publication, "Incommation."

While enlisted in the United States Air Force at the Wright-Patterson base in Dayton, Ohio, Kasnowski began his studies with the Dayton Art Institute.

At the conclusion of his undergraduate degree, he pursued a Master's degree at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Kasnowski wanted to combine his interest in art and computers. Tulane's art department was willing to work with the information technology department. There, he created "digital art" - plotting and charting binary code on canvas. At that time, codes were still created with the penciled-in punch card, sequentially fed to a computer.

He tells the story of trying to determine a random moment based on calendar date, atmospheric conditions and time. One predawn morning, he hears the university's computers all begin running and he realizes his random moment program is being created. Kasnowski laughed to learn that a random moment created a flat line.

His Tulane University days brought him into the influence of one of three mentors, Hal Carney (need reference information). Carney used Kasnowski to record much of the set creation Carney provided for Tulane's opera and theater companies. (need attributions)

Upon graduation, Kasnowski joined the staff at the New Orleans Museum of Art, purchasing Ansel Adams and Edwards photographs for the NOMA's collections. Kasnowski was an associate curator of education at the time and did not foresee photography as an accepted form of art.

EARLY LIFE:

Perth Amboy, Vermont, USAF in Wright Patterson, Dayton Art Institute, Tulane University New Orleans Museum of Art, curator

Art Works:

Guggenheim

MoMA - Franklin Furance, Ephemera - miscellaneous graphic materials, three sheets, two envelopes, mail order. http://arcade.nyarc.org/search~S8/?searchtype=X&searcharg=Kasnowski&searchscope=8http://arcade.nyarc.org/search~S8/?

Tate Gallery in London Stedelijk, Amsterdam

University of Iowa

http://archives2.getty.edu:8082/xtf/view?docId=ead/900270/900270.xml in the Bern Porter mail art collection

"Incommation" at http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/umbrella/article/view/318/282

Cleveland Museum of Art

"Set and Subset" at http://clevelandart.org/collections/collection%20online.aspx?type=refresh&csearch=Artist%20/%20Maker:Chet%20Kasnowski