A. Michael Noll

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Born 1939 in Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Pseudonymous: Mike Noll

A. MICHAEL NOLL is a Professor Emeritus of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He taught courses in communication systems technology, and he continues to study the policy and social implications of communication technologies. Before joining the Annenberg School in 1984, Dr. Noll had a varied career in basic research ( at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, starting there in 1961), telecommunication marketing and science policy.

His research has included work in the areas of: the effects of media on interpersonal communication, three-dimensional computer graphics, human-machine tactile communication, speech signal processing, and aesthetics.

He is an early pioneer in the use of digital computers in the visual arts, and his computer art has been widely exhibited throughout the world. His earliest digital computer art was created during the summer of 1962, and the exhibition of his computer art (along with Dr. Bela Julesz) at the Howard Wise Gallery in New York City in 1965 was the earliest such exhibition in the United States. Dr. Noll’s computer-generated ballet was created in the early 1960’s and was the first such use of computers. His study of aesthetic preferences for a computer-generated pattern versus a painting by Mondrian has become a classic. In the late 1960 and early 1970’s, he constructed interactive three-dimensional input devices and displays and a three-dimensional, tactile, force-feedback (“feelie”) device that were the forerunners of today’s virtual-reality systems.

He created his earliest digital computer art in summer of 1962 while he was working at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, as documented in a Bell Telephone Laboratories Technical Memorandum “Patterns by 7090” (MM-62-1234-14, August 28, 1962).

In an early experiment performed a few years later, he compared a Mondrian painting with a computer-generated pattern – an experiment which latter became classic. His “Computer-Generated Ballet” was the first use of a digital computer to create an animation of stick figures on a stage. In 1968 and 1970, he utilized his four-dimensional computer-animation method to create the title sequences for a movie (“Incredible Machine”) and for a television special (“The Unexplained”) – a very early use of computer animation for generating title sequences.

He has served as the technical Assistant to the President’s Science Advisor at the White House in the early 70’s and was involved with computer security and privacy, computer exports, scientific and technical information, educational technology and federal research programs. He served as the first Co-Chair of a joint USA/USSR program in the application of computers to management.

Dr. Noll has published over ninety-five professional papers covering a wide variety of topics and in diverse journals. He was granted six patents for his inventions in speech processing and human-machine tactile communication while at Bell Labs

He currently writes a column in Telecommunications Online. In addition, Dr. Noll wrote reviews of classical music performances for the Classical New Jersey Society.

Dr. Noll’s work are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art , the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , the USC Fisher Gallery , the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Web site: noll.uscannenberg.org/
Award(s): Computer Art Contest
Member of institution(s): Bell Laboratories
Cited in: bit international. [Nove] tendencije - Comput..., Ex Machina - Frühe Computergrafik bis 1979. ..., Die Anfänge der Computerkunst, Computer Grafik. Ästhetische Experimente zwi..., 25 Jahre Computerkunst - Grafik, Animation un..., Computer Art, White Heat Cold Logic : British Computer Art ..., Exakte Ästhetik 6 / Objektive Kunstkritik, Computergraphik Computerkunst, Computers and Automation, The Summer 1968 in London and Zagreb: Startin..., Computers and the Visual Arts, Review of A.Michael Noll's 'The Digital Compu..., Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas, Reputations Made And in Making, Beckmann's Studio Computers Specified for Ear..., A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Maga..., 20th Century Computer Art: Beginnings and Dev..., Visual Intelligence: The First Decade of Comp..., Computer Graphics and Art - Nov 77, What is Generative Art?, Paragraphs on Computer Art, Past and Present, Artificial Reality
Programming languages/software used: BEFLIX

1961 B.S.E.E. from Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey, USA.
1963 M.E.E. from New York University, New York, USA.

1961 onwards Started basic research at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jerse, which lasted for the next fifteen years.

1965 “Computer-Generated Pictures” , with Bela Julesz, (early USA digital computer art exhibit), Howard Wise Gallery, New York City, U.S.A. “Gaussian-Quadratic,” “Vertical-Horizontal Number Three,” “Computer Composition With Lines,” and “Ninety Parallel Sinusoids.”

1965 “Computer-Art Exhibit.”, (with Vaughn Mason’s analogue computer art), Fall Joint Computer Conference, Las Vegas, U.S.A.

1965 Composed one of the earliest stereoscopic computer-animated movies, with separate images for the left and right eyes – “Four-Dimensional Hyperobjects” & “Computer-Generated Ballet” .

1967 “Computergrafik” (organized by M. Krampen) Galarie im Hause Behr, Stuttgart, Germany.

1967 “Computergrafik” (organized by M. Krampen), Studio f, Ulm, Germany.

1967 “Computer Sight and Sound.” Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey, U.S.A.

1968 “Computer Graphic.” House of Art, Brno, Czechoslovakia.

1968 “Computer Graphic.” Gallery, Jihlava, Czechoslovakia.

1968 “Computer Graphic.“Gallery, Cottwaldov, Czechoslovakia.

1968 “Cybernetic Serendipity.” Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, England.

1968 Composed the main-title animation sequence “Incredible Machine” for award-winning movie by Owen Murphy Productions for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company.

1968 “Tendencije 4.” Galerije Grada Zagreba, Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

1969 “Computer-Kunst” (sponsored by Clarissa Contemporary Art and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gellellseheft). Kubus Gallery, Hanover, Germany.

1970 Composed the main-title animation sequence “The Unexplained” for Encyclopedia Britannica Special by Lee Mendelson Productions for NBC and colorcast on April 3, 1970.

1970 Recieved Honorable Mention as an Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer by Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical-engineering honor society, in recognition of his contributions to computer-generated stereographics.

1971 Received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York.

1971 “Arteonica.” Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil.

1972 “Computer Art.” National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India.

1972 “Computer Art.” Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio,U.S.A.

1975 “Computer Art Exhibit.” Watson Art Gallery, Wheaton College, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A

1977 to 1984 Worked in the AT&T Consumer Products and Marketing Department where he performed technical evaluations and did research to quantify the market for teleconferencing.

1979 “Generacion Automatica de Eormas Plasticas.” University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

1984 Joined the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

1990 Recognised as a Pioneer in recognition of his early work in computer graphics by the Computer Graphics Pioneers of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

1992-93 Dean of the Annenberg School for the academic year, during which time he formulated a broader vision of communication that resulted in a merger of academic units at USC to create a greatly expanded Annenberg School.

1996 Wrote a regular newspaper column in the Newark Star-Ledger.

1994 Awarded a Distinguished Alumni Medal for Outstanding Achievement by the New Jersey Institute of Technology .

Dr. Noll is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Audio Engineering Society.
He was a member of the Society for Information Display, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.

He has authored books on telecommunication electronics (1995), telephone systems (1999) and television(1988), all published by Artech House, which explain the technical principles and workings of communications technology and systems to a nontechnical audience.

He is the junior author with Dr. John R. Pierce of Signals: The Science of Telecommunications (Scientific American Library), published by the Scientific American Library(1990). He is the author of -_The Evolution of Media_, published by Rowman & Littlefield (2007).

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