Large Landscape: Ochre and Black, Charles Jeffries Bangert; Colette Stuebe Bangert

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Charles Jeffries Bangert; Colette Stuebe Bangert, Large Landscape: Ochre and Black
Charles Jeffries Bangert; Colette Stuebe Bangert, Large Landscape: Ochre and Black
Charles Jeffries Bangert , Colette Stuebe Bangert
Large Landscape: Ochre and Black
1970
Charles Jeffries Bangert
1938–2019
Colette Stuebe Bangert
born 1934
Large Landscape: Ochre and Black, 1970
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: color ink; computer-plotter; paper
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 23 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 81.28 x 58.42 cm
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 36 x 30 in
Credit line: Gift of Colette Stuebe Bangert and Charles Jeffries Bangert
Accession number: 1999.0232
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing," Mar-2012, Stephen Goddard Colette and Jeff Bangert were pioneers in the early days of computer-generated graphic art. This work, a unique algorithmic drawing, was produced by one of the Bangert’s programs (MELLY) written in the Fortran programming language. The artists recall that the steps involved in making this and similar works included typing code onto IBM 80-column punched cards with a keypunch machine, delivering the cards to the I/O (input output) desk at the KU Computer Center to have the program read from the cards and converted onto magnetic tape, receiving the tape from the I/O desk, and connecting the tape to a Calcomp plotter that did the actual printing. Colette recently reflected, “When I first saw this drawing plotting...I knew I had never seen such a drawing...it influenced much of what I did from then on, and then I began to very slowly see what Jeff and I had drawn then to even now.” SG