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29 Leon Harmon and
Kenneth Knowlton's
computer-generated
image of a cathode-ray
tube display, early 1960s.
Tinguely in the construction of his machines. EAT was concerned
with technology not so much as a medium than as a subject, as in
Ed Kienholz's construction
The Friendly Grey Computer
, or Lowell
Nesbitt's paintings of computers and computer peripherals (illus.
31
). In Britain Eduardo Paolozzi was expressing a similar fascina-
tion with computers through the medium of screenprinting, with
his
Universal Electronic Vacuum
series and others. In
a number
of artists, including Paolozzi, Hans Haacke, and Victor Vasarely,
a founder member of GRAV, were commissioned by Maurice
Tuchman, curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum
1968
30 Charles Csuri,
Hummingbird
, 1968,
computer-generated image.
