1975

I began making digital drawings by programming the computer in FORTRAN programming language. I began using the computer because I wanted to embody in my imagery phenomena in the physical world that was invisible to the eye yet elicited a visceral experience to the body. I wanted these drawings, and later textiles, to have a gestural and emotive sensibility. These early drawings were created using an IBM Mainframe computer and a CalComp Plotter. The computer processing was done in Batch mode. My computer programs were processed and the resulting data for the drawings was recorded on a 16 BPI tape. I picked the tape up at the computer center and hand delivered it to the Geography Department at Northern Illinois University, who operated the large Calcomp drum. plotter.

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