Calculations: Pioneers of Computer Animation

Presented by The iotaCenter and Echo Park Film Center

In an effort to enlighten both art and technology, artists worked with computers to create an aesthetic specific to the machine decades before Hollywood CGI spectaculars. At IBM, Bell, and in their own home-built labs, they generated visionary spectacles from mathematical precision–complex abstractions, stroboscopic patterns, kinetic rhythms, and volumetric illusions. Tonight”™s program is an introduction to these early pioneers and a cross-section of some of their finest works. iota is working with local venue Echo Park Film Center, in conjunction with Chicago-based artist Jodie Mack and Amy Beste to bring you this program.

For more information about the program, visit the event page.

When: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 8pm
Where: Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado (at Sunset) in Los Angeles

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