Artistic intuition meets technical ingenuity: the unique contribution to Digital Art History of 1960's computer art pioneer, Desmond Paul Henry (1921-2004)

摘要

It is thanks to the artistic intuition and technical ingenuity of a Philosopher, Desmond Paul Henry, that a series of three innovative drawing machines (1961-71) were constructed from WW2 analogue bombsight computers. His drawing machines' unconventional modus operandi not only made for a very special bond between Henry and his machines, but also firmly establishes their transitional position in Digital Art history, spanning as they do what has been termed the pre-war (WW2) Industrial/Mechanical Age and the post-war Electronic/Digital Age (Popper, 1993).