Computer Art Contest

The Computer Art Contest was launched in the January issue 1963.

As a friend of the chief editor and co-publisher Edmund C. Berkeley of the magazine Computers and Automation, Hertlein, Grace C. played a decisive part in the concept for the first competition of computer graphics, the winner of which was presented on the cover of each year’s August edition.
The response to the annual contest was considerable, and it also led to international networking among computer artists. [Source: Ex Machina – Frühe Computergrafik bis 1979. ...]

The first two prizes, in 1963 and 1964, went to graphics by the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratories,

The second prize in 1963 Stained Glass Window by Electronics Associates Inc.

A purely artistic work received a prize for the first time when Michael Noll won in 1965 with Computer Composition With Lines.

The subsequent prize-winners were:

Nake, Frieder in 1966 with Komposition mit Quadraten.
Csuri, Charles, James Shaffer (1967) with Sine Curve Man.
Strand, Kerry in 1968 with Hummingbird.
Childs, Tom in 1969 with Circus.

The magazine Computers and Automation stopped publishing in 1972.