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28 George Nees,
Corridor
, early 1960s,
computer-generated image.
CAD (computer aided design) system, built for General Motors by
IBM, was shown publicly. In the same year Lockheed Georgia started
using computer graphics. This was also the year of the first computer
art competition, sponsored by the trade periodical
Computers and
Automation
. Both first and second place in the first competition
were won by entrants from the
Army Ballistic Missile Research
Laboratories. The first computer art exhibition was held in
us
, at
Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, organized by A. Michael Noll,
Frieder Nake and George Nees (illus.
1965
), while in the same year
another similar exhibition was held at the Howard Wise Gallery
in New York. The year afterwards, an
annus mirabilis
of computer
art, two scientists at Bell Labs, Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon
produced their
Studies in Perception
(illus.
28
), which greatly fur-
thered the burgeoning field of computer imaging, IBM awarded
the newly created post of Artist-in-Residence to John Whitney Sr,
while Charles Csuri's
Hummingbird
(illus.
29
) was purchased by the
Museum of Modern Art in New York for its permanent collection.
In
30
, a movement,
Experiments in Art and Technology
(EAT) was
started in New York by the artist Robert Rauschenberg, a friend of
John Cage, and the engineer Billy Klüver, who had assisted Jean
1967
