| last name: | Barbadillo |
| first name: | Manuel |
| birthday: | 1929 |
| birth-place: | Sevilla (Spain) |
| death date: | 2003 |
| died in: | Málaga (Spain) |
Manuel Barbadillo is one of the early proponents of computer art in Spain.
He´s also a founding member of the group Nueva Generación in Madrid and a member of the artistic board of the Gesellschaft für Computerkunst und Computergrafik, which was founded in 1978.
Barbadillo received the Pablo-Ruiz-Picasse-Prize in 1999.
He is member of the Computer Arts Society.
MY WAY TO CYBERNETICS – Text by the artist featured in Artist and Computer.
| 1929 | Born in Sevilla, Spain. |
| 1951 | Studies in the “Escuela de Artes y Oficios” of Sevilla. |
| 1954 | He participated in his first colective exhibition. |
| 1955 | military service took him to Ceuta in Marocco. |
| 1959 | He moves to New york where he works as painter and lives until 1962. |
| 1968 | Barbadillo made a computer course in the Centro de Cálculos of Madrid University and was invited by Camarero, García Ernesto to make a work proposal for this institution. |
| 1968 | Barbadillo was a founding member of the Seminar Generación Automática de Formas Plásticas and was an active member until 1972. |
