Lloyd Sumner
Lloyd Sumner in front of a plotting machine.
Born 1943 in Hillsville, VA)(USA.
Early computer artist.
His works are characterized by smooth curves, moiré patterns, symmetry and evenly spaced lines. Randomness does not play an important roll, most works are carefully calculated, nothing left to chance [Source: Review: Computer Art and Human Response].
Had access to computer hardware while working at the Computer Science Center at the University of Virginia and
There was a plotting machine in it which no one knew how to use. So he learned, and [...] was soon producing computer art. [Source: Computer 'Paints' man]
Sumner said about computer art in general:
The computer artist is a reactor, not an innovator. He is an artist with a tool not a programmer with luck. [Source: Young Virginia Artist Uses Computer to Create…]
Cited in: bit international. [Nove] tendencije - Comput..., White Heat Cold Logic : British Computer Art ..., Computergraphik Computerkunst, The Summer 1968 in London and Zagreb: Startin..., A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Maga..., Computers and Automation '68, Computers and Automation '67
Programming languages/software used: ALGOL
1943 Born as youngest of 13 siblings.
1959 Orphaned at age of 16
1962 Enters University of Virginia.
1964 Part time job at Computer Science Center at University of Virginia, has access to B5500 computer and plotter, begins to experiment with computer drawings.
after 1964 Begins to enter art shows, first at Charlottesville businesses and the University.
Spring 1967 Graduates in (Mechanical) engineering science, major in mathematics, minor in arts at the University of Virginia, Engineering School.
1969 Makes a living by selling his computer art by catalog.
Artwork
Lloyd Sumner in front of a plotting machine.
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