Alan Sutcliffe was a composer, designer, author, and computer programmer. He was one of the founding members of the international ‘Computer Arts Society’, based in the UK, which he chaired for 10 years.
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Alan Sutcliffe
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| last name: | Sutcliffe |
| first name: | Alan |
| birthday: | June 30, 1930 |
| birth-place: | Todmorden (West Yorkshire UK) |
| death date: | March 26, 2014 |
Summary
Biography
| 1949 to 51 | Studied Mathematics in Bristol. |
| 1951-53 | Military Service, worked as a draughtsman for a year. |
| 1961 | Started computer programming, working first for the English Electric Computers, then for International Computers Limited. |
| 1962 | Attended a composition course at Dartington Summer School of Music, conducted by Luciano Berio. |
| 1963 | Became a system programmer and prepared his first computer graphics. |
| 1966 | Was introduced to Peter Zinovieff through Delia Derbyshire while employed at ‘International Computer limited’ in Bracknell, Berkshire at the post of ‘Manager of New Series Branch’ (R&D). |
| 1965 | Attended new music summer course at Darmstadt, W.Germany, attended classes with Luciano Berio in England |
| 1967 | Composed ‘ZASP’ -a computer composition – in collaboration with Peter Zinovieff, the first piece composed on one computer (ICT 1900) and realized on another (PDP 8), which explored acoustics generated by algorithmic patterns and textures uniquely inherent to the electronic muic equipment. |
| 1968 | ‘ZASP’ wins the second price at the IFIP (International Federation of for Information Processing)Congress. |
| 1968 | Gave a provocative lecture at ‘Internationale Woche der Experientellen Musik" at the Technische Universitat, Berlin, W.Germany entitled ’Die Electronische Musik ist Tot’. |
| 1968 | Initiated the founding of the ‘Computer Arts Society’ to promote ‘the creative use of Computer in the arts’ along with Gustav Metzger, George Mallen and John Lansdown, which he chaired for 10 years. By the first two years it had 254 members in Britian and 123 overseas members. |
| March 1969 | Helped to launch the CAS ‘Computer Arts Society’ and it’s publication ‘PAGE’ at ‘Event One’ at RCA, London. |
| 1969 | Spent three months in the computer music studio of the University of Illinoisi, Chaimpaign-Urbana and visited various American artists including Kenneth Knowolton at Bell Labs, New Jersey. |
| 1973 | Joined Zinoveiff’s Electronic music studios Ltd. as a part-time director, mainly programming for the studio but increasingly involved in the synthesizer business. |
| 1973 to 1980 | Worked as a part-time director of System Simulation Ltd.,with colleagues from CAS. |
| 1978 | Produced computer animation for Ridley Scott’s film Alien. |
| 1979 | Elected chairman of the Specialist Groups Board and became the Vice President of the BCS. |
| 1980 onwards | Worked as a freelancer on graphics software for Cambridge University, the RAF, and for UNESCO in Vietnam, among others; he also became an expert in CAD systems for carpet design. |
| 2002 | Involved with the CACHe project, which led to the reformation of the Computer Arts society, and he has recently been elected president. |
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References
- Franke, Herbert W. 1971. Computergraphik Computerkunst. Munich:Bruckmann
- Franke, Herbert W. 1972. Computer Art. New Delhi:Mass Communication & Marketing Pvt. Ltd
- 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
- Klütsch, Christoph 2005. The Summer 1968 in London and Zagreb: Starting or End Point for Computer Art?. In: Creativity & Cognition 05 Proceedings. [unknown address]:ACM press
- Land, Richard I. 1969. Computer Art: Color-Stereo Displays . In: Leonardo. Great Britain:Pergamon Press
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