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      THE COMPUTER-GENERATED ARTWORKS OF VLADIMIR BONAČIĆ

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      CAT 2010: Ideas before their time : Connecting the past and present in computer art (CAT)
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            Scientist Vladimir Bonačić began his artistic career 1968 under the auspices of the international movement NewTendencies (NT), at the Gallery for Contemporary Art of Zagreb, which had pushed for his inclusion. From 1968 to 1971 Bonačić created a series of “dynamic objects” – interactive computer-generated light installations, five of which were set up in public spaces. The author shows the context of Bonačić’s work within the Zagreb cultural environment dominated by the New Tendencies movement and network (1961-1973). The paper shows his theoretical and practical criticism of the use of randomness in computer-generated art and describes his working methods as combining the algebra of Galois fields and an anti-commercial approach with custom-made hardware. It seems that Bonačić’s work fulfills and develops Matko Mestrovic´’s proposition that “in order to enrich that which is human, art must start to penetrate the extra-poetic and the extra-human.”

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            Conference
            February 2010
            February 2010
            : 32-47
            Affiliations
            [0001]Multimedia artist, curator and researcher

            Transart Institute

            http://darkofritz.net/
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            10.14236/ewic/CAT2010.5
            784dbd23-912b-49e9-889d-3ecf5833242e
            © Darko Fritz. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. CAT 2010: Ideas before their time : Connecting the past and present in computer art, London

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            CAT 2010: Ideas before their time : Connecting the past and present in computer art
            CAT
            London
            3 February 2010
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            CAT 2010: Ideas before their time : Connecting the past and present in computer art
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Categories
            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction

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