Large Landscape: Ochre and Black

Charles Jeffries Bangert, artist

1938–2019

Colette Stuebe Bangert, artist

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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"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