Norton Starr

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Born 1936-06-18 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

Norton Starr is a (Retd.) Professor Emeritus of Mathematics 
and Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA.

He does not identify himself primarily as a visual artist but as a mathematician using computer graphics to illustrate mathematical functions with variables and basic graphs within a spiral design. A lot of his work was developed in 1972-1973, during a sabbatical taken at the computer center ‘Department of Combinatorics and Optimization’ of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Many of his compositions illustrating functions of two variables have appeared in various texts in mathematics and in computer science.

Web site: http://www3.amherst.edu/~nstarr
Cited in: Ex Machina - Frühe Computergrafik bis 1979. ..., 25 Jahre Computerkunst - Grafik, Animation un..., Computers and Automation
Programming languages/software used: FORTRAN

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL:

1958 Masters in Mathematics at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachussetts, USA.
1959 Member of the Mathematical Association of America. Lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Kansas City,Missouri,USA.
1962-63 Visiting professor at the University of Waterloo, Ontario,Canada.
1963 Member of the American Mathematical Society.
1964 Doctorate in Mathematics at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
1966 Professor of Mathematics at the Amherst College (Massachusetts) – President of this faculty from 1976-79 as well as from 1984-87
1972-73 Developed his interest for computer graphics in a year´s sabbatical from the Amherst College while working at ‘Department of Combinatorics and Optimization’, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada using the plotter of the university computing centre.
2009 Retired from Amherst College.

EXHIBITIONS :

1974 Beauty in Science, Science in Art, Pennsylvania State University.
1975 ‘PRINTOUT’, Watson Gallery, Wheaton College. ‘Third International Computer Art Festival’, CUNY, New York City. ‘Canadian Computer Show’, Toronto. ‘ACM ‘75’, Minneapolis.
1976 ‘National Prints and Drawings Exhibition’, Warbeke Gallery, Mount Holyoke College.
1976 ‘ACM ’76, The Association for Computing Machinery Annual Conference’, Houston.
1977 ‘ICCH 3, The Third International Conference on Computing in the Humanities’, Waterloo, Ontario. ‘International Computer Arts Exhibition’, Tokyo.
1978 ‘Art and the Computer’, Worcester Art Museum. Sixth New Zealand Computer Conference, Auckland.
1989 ‘Computer Art in Czechoslovakia and the World’, Palace of Culture, Prague. Printmaking: at the speed of thought, The Print Club, Philadelphia.
1995 Henion Bakery Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts.
2007 ‘Ex Machina – Frühe Computergrafik bis 1979’, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany.

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Norton Starr teaching at Amherst College. (Picture taken by Frank Ward)

 
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