“Larry Cuba is one of the most important artists currently working in the tradition known variously as abstract, absolute or concrete animation. This is the approach to cinema (film and video) as a purely visual experience, an art form related more to painting and music than to drama or photography.” [Youngblood, 1986]
“As Raphael Bassan wrote in a 1981 issue of La Revue du Cinema, “The computer animation establishes a parallel between visual perception and a structure of linguistic or mathematical order: it is concerned with establishing a new organizational field for the aesthetic material. …In the sphere of abstract cinema (lacking a better term), Larry Cuba’s research is, in fact, at the origin of a new direction which does not yet have a name…”" [Larry Cuba, n. d.]
Cuba’s computer-animated films 3/78, Two Space, and Calculated Movements “were shown at film festivals throughout the world—-including Los Angeles, Hiroshima, Zagreb and Bangkok—-and have won numerous awards. Cuba’s been invited to present his work at various conferences such as [”Siggraph":institution@256], ISEA, Ars Electronica, and Art and Math Moscow and his films have been included in screenings at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, The Hirshhorn Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Amsterdam Filmmuseum and the Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo.
Cuba received grants for his work from the American Film Institute and The National Endowment for the Arts and was awarded a residency at the Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe. He has served on the juries for the Siggraph Electronic Theater, the Montpellier Festival of Abstract Film, The Ann Arbor Film Festival and Ars Electronica." [Larry Cuba, n. d.]
Cuba describes his work in the following way: “My work consists of experimenting with algebraic structures to generate visual material that is unpredictable in its form. By that I mean that it was not designed, imagined or otherwise previsualized. The results are only known after the program is run, the computer executes the computations and produces the animation.” [Sullivan, 1999]