Painter, aeronautical engineer and first director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, California, then an Army facility. Pioneer in use of light in kinetic art. He also founded and edited the Leonardo journal.
Frank Joseph Malina
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| last name: | Malina |
| first name: | Frank Joseph |
| birthday: | October 2, 1912 |
| birth-place: | Brenham, Texas (USA) |
| death date: | November 9, 1981 |
| died in: | Boulogne-Billancourt (France) |
Summary
Biography
| 1934 | Obtained his Bachelor of Science at the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University and entered Caltech (California Institute of Technology). |
| 1940 | Obtained a doctorate in aeronautics at the Caltech. |
| 1942 | Creates the Aerojet General Corporation. |
| 1944 | Creates the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
| 1945 | Launched the first rocket, which makes him becoming a pinoneer of conquest of space. |
| 1947 | Becomes part of UNESCO as an advisor to the assistant director of the Department of Natural Science. |
| 1953 | Left the UNESCO ans sattled to Paris where he started his artist career. |
| 1953 | (In autumn) shows his work at the Henri Tronche Gallery. |
| 1955 | (In July ) starts presenting his works in three places in Paris (Comparaisons Salon, Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Allendy Gallery). |
| 1965 | Presents first audio-kinetic work in the Furstenberg Gallery. |
| 1967 | Gets more involved in the creation of the jurnal Leonardo. |
| 1968 | Launched the jurnal Leonardo. |
Exhibitions
References
- Land, Richard I. 1969. Computer Art: Color-Stereo Displays . In: Leonardo. Great Britain:Pergamon Press
- Reichardt, Jasia, et al., Brown, Paul, et al., eds. 2008. White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980. Cambridge, MA:MIT Press
- Rosen, Margit, ed. 2011. A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer's Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973. Karlsruhe (Germany) & Cambridge, MA (USA):ZKM & MIT Press
Illustrations
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