From the earliest days of electronic computers, people have used them to create art: from drawings to poems, from screenplays to paintings, and from music to films. Today, the computer has become an indispensable tool, and quite often a medium of its own, for many diverse artists.

On the evening of July 22, 2022, CHM offered an opportunity to experience some of the earliest experimental films by artists who were incorporating the emerging technology of computer animation between 1967 and 1970, and to juxtapose these works to those of Camille Utterback, a digital artist who adopted new computer technologies for interactivity in her award-winning installations beginning in the late 1990s. Utterback—a winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellowship and a professor of art at Stanford University—was joined on CHM’s stage by David C. Brock, who curated the Museum’s recent exhibition, Early Computer Films, 1963-1972.

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