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Karl Kraft

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PAST-POTENTIAL-FUTURES

Date: Sunday May 25, 2008
Time: 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Location: London Tate Modern
Notes: PAST-POTENTIAL-FUTURES
Early Experiments in Computer Animation

This free Sunday evening screening in the Turbine Hall will celebrate the inspiring technical and aesthetic advances of early computer animation, including work by key pioneers such as Charles Csuri, Ed Emshwiller, Denys Irving, Kenneth Knowlton, Malcolm Le Grice, Lillian Schwartz, Stan VanDerBeek, and many others.

Decades before our contemporary CGI-saturated media landscape, artists during the 1960s and 70s - working at Bell Laboratories, IBM, and in their own studios - created radical experiments at the vibrant intersection of art and technology.

Tate Modern's iconic architecture will be transformed by the pulsating, kinetic and colourful ryhthms of these visionary glimpses into the future of cinema.

Films provided by EAI, Lumen, LUX, and the Lillian Feldman Schwartz collection at The Ohio State University.

FREE admission.
Tickets available on a first come / first served basis between Friday 23 - Sunday 25 May from Tate ticket and information desks.

For more information call 020 7887 8888.

www.tate.org.uk/modern/thelongweekend2008
 

polystyle

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Sounds good , if not great.
Some of the early computer graphics were quite good, some dated.
Csuri, haven't heard his name for awhile ...
Without seeing the show, I would guess there might be some cool stuff in there,
people were still experimenting and not already in the blinkered ' there's only this way' to do CG -
or the expectation that CG has to look like this or that.
By the '80's NY Institute of Technology was doing some cool stuff ,
IBM Advanced CG Lab too.
Was a nice gig working with them;)
 
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