An Interview with Lillian Schwartz

+ Description

For the 2006 edition of Sonic Acts: Computer Anthology. I met in New Jersey State with Lillian Schwartz for an extensive and inspiring talk about her early work of digital art and encounter with computers and their use in the creative process.

Lillian Schwartz is one of the few artist, along with Stan Vanderbeek and John Whitney, who worked in the early days of computer history, during the ‘60 & ‘70, with machines and programmers to create short (abstract) computer generated films. She worked together with a wide variety of scientist, programmers and musicians such as Max Mathews to discover new means of visual expression thru the use of computer technology and programming.

From the hours of material that she elaborated on issues such as the meaning of digital art, Bell Lab, the computer as an creative tool and the collaboration with a computer, I’ve shorted out a small portion in to a 34 minute interview.

+ Download
A Quicktime movie is available here (34 minutes, 70mb.). Or at the Media Bay section of the site. The movie is formatted for Iphone and Ipod Touch users.

+Link
The web-site of Lillian Schwartz: www.lillian.com

note: This video material is for educational purpose only.

admin @ June 19, 2009