I became interested in computer graphics while in collage and learned programming in BASIC. Because of my coding ability, I was accepted into the first computer graphics class offered in the CSULB Art Department, where I programmed graphics software for class use.
After graduating from college, I purchased an Atari computer to continue my digital explorations; and began blending the new tech with my traditional art background.
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Plotter Drawings
Graphics produced in CSULB Computer Graphics class, Spring 1982. Programmed in BASIC, on a HP desktop computer, and printed with a pen plotter.
ATARI Graphics
ATARI Patterns
Graphics programmed in BASIC on an Atari 1200 XL desktop computer and photographed with a 35mm camera off the computer monitor: (left) a variety of individual photographs; (right) a single multi-exposure photograph. ©1983-1989
ATARI Animations
Video of graphics programmed in BASIC on an Atari 1200 XL desktop computer. c. 1983/4.
Original animations were recorded on VHS tape in real-time, and that video was shot with digital camera for this video presentation.
Prism
I developed a program that filled the screen with random colored pixels, then with a pixel averaging system, would vary output depending on initial variable inputs.
Multi-exposure Photography
With the desire to create more complex imagery, I harked back to my experience in printmaking. I developed a system of using hand cut-out masks placed over the computer monitor to enable taking multi-exposed photographs, expanding the colors/textures I could produce in a single image.
City Slickers
In using the multi-exposure technique, I began playing with collage, cutting out and combining multiple images together to create larger compositions.
This ultimately lead to the next step in the evolution of my art: Digital Mixed Media works.