2024-10-15
RIP the brilliant pioneering computer artist and filmmaker Lillian Schwartz 💜 [image]
New York Times
Lillian Schwartz, one of the first artists to use a computer to make films and who brought together art, science, and tech communities in the 1970s, died at 97
Early in the digital era, she worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point arriving at a novel theory about the “Mona Lisa.”
RIP pioneering computer artist and filmmaker Lillian Schwartz. Scene from “The Artist and The Computer” documentary on her work from 1976. [video]
New York Times
Lillian Schwartz, one of the first artists to use a computer to make films and who brought together art, science, and tech communities in the 1970s, died at 97
Early in the digital era, she worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point arriving at a novel theory about the “Mona Lisa.”