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Ken Knowlton

knowltonmosaics.com (images to his work here)

http://www.kenknowlton.com/

Physical Mosaics:

Other / Digital:

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)

https://www.atariarchives.org/artist/sec19.php

Talks & Interviews

https://player.vimeo.com/video/315084485

https://vimeo.com/315084485

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwPY7-jcLjk&

https://youtu.be/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://youtu.be/V4agEv3Nkcs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVu2BWLZqA&

https://youtu.be/iwVu2BWLZqA

Other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lmi6cmrq0w&

A Computer Technique for the Production of Animated Movies, 1963
A Computer Technique for the Production of Animated Movies, 1963

Stills

Art work http://www.knowltonmosaics.com/

Dominoportrait of Chalie Chaplin
Dominoportrait of Chalie Chaplin
Nude, 1967
Nude, 1967
Details of Nude
Details of Nude

Poem Field No. 1 (1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsNmrCgwwQM&

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwPY7-jcLjk&

interview with ken knowlton

KEN KNOWLTON | DAM GALLERY
KEN KNOWLTON | DAM GALLERY

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O152641/untitled-from-the-portfolio-art-print-knowlton-ken/

Les Cashiers Sesa No. 5 (art magazine), 1973
Les Cashiers Sesa No. 5 (art magazine), 1973
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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

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