Aaron Marcus is a user-interface and information-visualization designer, as well as computer graphics artist. Marcus lives and works in Berkeley (California, USA).
Aaron Marcus
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| last name: | Marcus |
| first name: | Aaron |
| birthday: | May 22, 1943 |
| birth-place: | Omaha, Nebraska (USA) |
Summary
Biography
| 1961-65 | Studied physics and philosophy at Princeton University (New Jersey). |
| 1965-68 | Studied graphic design at Vale University at the School of Art and Architecture in New Häven (Connecticut) and became a Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts. |
| 1967 | Completed a period of practical training in programming with Bell Telephone Laboratories (AT+T Bell Labs) in Murray Hill (New Jersey). That was where he learned how to write programmes for the production of Computer graphics. |
| 1970 | Started working as a lecturer at Princeton University (New Jersey) and directed an international team in the field of visual communication during a research professorship at the East-West Centre in Honolulu. occupied himself with virtual reality. |
| 1971-73 | Designed one of the first virtual environments, which consisted of a combination of sculptural forms and three-dimensional typography. See Cybernetic Landscape I. investigated forms of concrete (visual) poetry, produced with the aid of a typesetting machine, which was connected to the computer and controlled by the programmes which Marcus had written. |
| 1982 | Founded AM+A (Aaron Marcus and Associates Inc.), which specialises, amongst other things, in the design of user interfaces and man-computer interaction. |
| 1992 | Received the National Computer Graphics Association’s Annual Award for Contributions to Industry. |
Works
References
- Herzogenrath, Wulf & Nierhoff-Wielk, Barbara, eds. 2007. Ex Machina - Frühe Computergrafik bis 1979. Die Sammlung Franke und weitere Stiftungen in der Kunsthalle Bremen. Herbert W. Franke zum 80. Geburtstag. Berlin:Deutscher Kunstverlag
- Krueger, Myron W. 1991. Artificial Reality II. Reading, MA, USA:Addison-Wesley
- Mohr, Manfred, et al., Leavitt, Ruth, ed. 1976. Artist and Computer. New York, NY.:Harmony Books – a division of Crown Publishers, Inc.
- Noll, A. Michael 2014. Timeline of Early Digital-Graphics Innovations at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated.
Publications
Illustrations
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