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ARAZI, EFRAIM 1937-2013. Original gelatin silver print, signed ("Efi Arazi"), 1962, and numbered 12 of 50,
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ARAZI, EFRAIM 1937-2013.
Original gelatin silver print, signed ("Efi Arazi"), 1962, and numbered 12 of 50, framed.
THE BEGINNING OF COMPUTER ART.
Israeli-born Arazi was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went on to found and head Scitex Corporation (renamed Scailex in 2005), an Israeli company that specialized in developing and manufacturing hardware and software for graphic design, printing and publishing. While at MIT he began to create art using the computer to create striking random number-generated patterns. The present work was featured on the cover of the January 1963 issue of Edmund Berkeley's Computers and Automation (considered the first computer magazine). Berkeley coined the term "computer art" to describe the piece. It was popular enough that he initiated the long-running Computer Art Contest the same year. From Computers and Automation, January 1963: "The brush is an electron beam; the canvas, an oscilloscope; the painter, an electronic computer."
THE BEGINNING OF COMPUTER ART.
Israeli-born Arazi was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went on to found and head Scitex Corporation (renamed Scailex in 2005), an Israeli company that specialized in developing and manufacturing hardware and software for graphic design, printing and publishing. While at MIT he began to create art using the computer to create striking random number-generated patterns. The present work was featured on the cover of the January 1963 issue of Edmund Berkeley's Computers and Automation (considered the first computer magazine). Berkeley coined the term "computer art" to describe the piece. It was popular enough that he initiated the long-running Computer Art Contest the same year. From Computers and Automation, January 1963: "The brush is an electron beam; the canvas, an oscilloscope; the painter, an electronic computer."



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