and was shown at an exhibition devoted to computer “plotter art.” Image courtesy of the Smithsonian Science Service Historical Image Collection. Computers Break out the screwdrivers ...

Calderon. “It was great to go to bed at night and hear the computer and the plotter working by themselves in the workshop.” While the art world was slow to fully recognize Ms. Molnar’s work ...

Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions ... the vigorous movement of the plotter or Mohr’s own hand guided by the computer is evident. Just as that observant viewer wrote on the wall ...

Gradually Molnár began to think about making art on a machine. She learned BASIC and FORTRAN. In 1968, she gained access to a mainframe. Some of the early output, a series of plotter drawings ...

Computer plotters are a type of ... inkjet technology is the ability to print photo quality graphics, increasing the versatility of the plotter.

There was a time when plotters were the pinnacle of computer graphics output. While they aren’t as common as they used to be, there are some advantages to having a plotter. [Symon] wanted a ...

Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Cohen, a painter, wrote a computer program to draw closed shapes. After transferring these shapes to paper using a plotter ...

The plotter was the first output device to print graphics and large engineering drawings. Using different colored pens, it could draw in color long before color inkjet printers became viable.