Wow! This article contained a lot of information! Besides the fact that the article skipped around a little bit, I found it to be really interesting.
I had no idea that the world of interactive media had been developing for so long! I guess when I pictured the development of computer immaging I pictured a bunch of tech people just sitting down and knowing right away that they wanted to design those types of computer programs. I didnt even stop to consider that the early versions of those programs have been around since WWII. This technology has come such a long way from creating balistics tables.
I think that people take this type of technology for granted everyday, (I know that I do!). It also really surprised me that I had never heard of any of these people before. Vannevar Bush (who first thought of computers as devices that could be used for personal use), Norber Weiner (who believed that the quality of ones communication with machines effects the quality of a persons inner life), and Lynn Hershman (one of the first to create digital artworks) were all huge names in the development of creative computer technology. Yet non of these people have ever come up in anything I have ever read.
Lynn Hershman was particularly interesting to me (image on the right is an untitled work by Lynn). Lynn was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1941. She was a professor at the Univer
sity of California and the Chair of the film department a
t San Francisco Art Institute. She was known for her art and film which focused on identity in a time of consumerism.
It was interesting to see just how many different people, involved in different fields, were needed to get computer technology to the point that is is now.
This article is very informative and I wish that more people could have the chance to read it.
