Computer art that pre-dates MacBooks and Photoshop by decades – In 1969, Frederick Hammersley produced an extensive series of “Computer Drawings” which he programmed and printed from an IBM mainframe computer, a mammoth machine that would …

Following on from our previous post, here are some examples of computer drawings from 1969 that Frederick Hammersley was able to produce by using these punch cards. Hammersley recounted this process in an article …

So amazing! The Archives of American Art just shared these IBM punch cards utilized by Frederick Hammersley to create computer drawings in 1969, during his time teaching at the University of New Mexico. We …