Ken Knowlton
knowltonmosaics.com (images to his work here)
http://www.kenknowlton.com/
Physical Mosaics:
- Seashells as Pixels
- Liberated Seashells
- Dominoes, Dice & Other Tesserae
Other / Digital:
- Alphabetic Portraits
- Puzzle Folk & Magicians
- Collages & Misc. Media
constructing domino portraits http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_FILE/2003/09/722.pdf
https://www.atariarchives.org/artist/sec19.php
Exerpt (Manifesto -2012) http://www.kenknowlton.com/pages/35manifesto.htm
Quote:
“What the world needs is a massive consortium from science, math, social sciences, history, philosophy, religion, economics, business, politics – to devise downsizing schemes, justified by world systems simulations, leading to safeguards, stockpiles, backups, plans-B, austerity triages, etc. The effort would need to be vastly multi-disciplinary and international. It’s not likely to happen; without it we are implicitly saying full-steam-ahead to chaotic, choking disaster. Here’s a wry suggestion: that we scientists and other thinkers form an SSSSSSSSSSSS which, by strained back-formation, might stand for Strategists for a Slower Slide down the Slippery Slope to Softer Settling into a Sane, Stable, Secure, Sustainable Society. Not very likely, of course, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if a pandemic of intellectual and emotional sanity swept the world, leaving people infected with care, not about their gardens of ambition and entitlement, but about the future of humanity.”
–– Ken Knowlton Budd Lake NJ 2012
Education (Scientific)
- B. of Engineering Physics, Cornell U., 1953. Res. Asst. in Electron microscopy.
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M. S. Engineering Physics, Cornell U., 1955. Physics, Math, Biology
Thesis: X-Ray Microscopy with a Modified RCA Electron Microscope
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Ph.D. Communications Sciences, M.I.T., 1962. E.E., Computer Science
Thesis: Sentence Parsing with a Self-Organizing Heuristic Program
https://www.atariarchives.org/artist/sec19.php
Talks & Interviews
https://player.vimeo.com/video/315084485
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwPY7-jcLjk&
Films
Poem Field Poem Field is the name of a series of 8 computer-generated animations by Stan Vanderbeek and Ken Knowlton in 1964-1967.[1] The animations were programmed in a language called Beflix (short for “Bell Flicks”), which was developed by Knowlton
https://books.google.com.qa/books?id=6h3DBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=Poemfields&source=bl&ots=HFUP6syvdx&sig=ACfU3U000QTWQUqCLb38k5cBNuY4XR8LMg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihkNfy1IvqAhVv7XMBHT9TDncQ6AEwCHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Poemfields&f=false
https://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_VanDerBeek-Knowlton_Movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4agEv3Nkcs&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVu2BWLZqA&
Other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lmi6cmrq0w&
Stills
Art work http://www.knowltonmosaics.com/
Poem Field No. 1 (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsNmrCgwwQM&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwPY7-jcLjk&
interview with ken knowlton
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http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O152641/untitled-from-the-portfolio-art-print-knowlton-ken/
Beflix Programming Language
https://www.slideshare.net/LegalizeAdulthood/beflix
https://www.slideshare.net/LegalizeAdulthood/beflix
“The programming environment targeted by BEFLIX consisted of a FORTRAN II implementation with FORTRAN II Assembly Program (FAP) macros.” http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7090/C28-6235-3_FAP_Apr64.pdf
Interesting Artist related to topic
Nutthawut Suradejchai Typewriter/Graphic Artist. Using typewriter to draw / paint a picture http://nutthawut.com/
Vik Muniz
https://www.ted.com/talks/vik_muniz_art_with_wire_sugar_chocolate_and_string#t-232452
The machine, as seen at the end of the mechanical age, MoMa catalog
https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/thinking-through-machines-moma/
https://www.ted.com/talks/vik_muniz_art_with_wire_sugar_chocolate_and_string#t-626799
Papers
( Note: ACM has granted free access to their digital library until June 30, 2020 )
MINI-EXPLOR: a FORTRAN-coded version of the EXPLOR language for mini (and larger) computers ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Volume 9, Issue 3September 1975, pp 31–42 https://doi.org/10.1145/988049.988052 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/988049.988052
A report on the use of FORTRAN-coded EXPLOR for the teaching of computer graphics and computer art Proceedings of the symposium on Two-dimensional man-machine communicationOctober 1972, pp 103–112 https://doi.org/10.1145/800231.807020 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800231.807020
Knowlton’s MINI-EXPLORE re-implemented for GNU Fortran.
https://github.com/robmyers/explor