<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>Interview with Darko Fritz by Twan Eikelenboom for Virtueel Platform (Dutch): Terug naar de begindagen van computergegenereerde kunst<br>and <br>publication Mapping the Beginnings of Computer-generated Art in The Netherlands (initial release, visual art only) - PDF, English, 51 pages, 2011<br><br><a href="http://virtueelplatform.nl/kennis/terug-naar-de-begindagen-van-computergegenereerde-kunst">http://virtueelplatform.nl/kennis/terug-naar-de-begindagen-van-computergegenereerde-kunst</a><br><br><br>Here published 51 pages pdf document (English) is result of the first phase of the research that focus on visual arts. While progressing, the research transgressed its primarily focus on visual fine arts to other art disciplines, as becomes visible that they were strong and inseparable crossovers of artistic disciplines in practice and other creative use of computers. The achievements made in computer-generated literature, sound and music, film / animation, architecture / urbanism, theatre / dance, product / graphic design / typography and hardware / software design of artists tools were included in the outputs of second research phase (not published yet): Chronology (28500 words about more than 400 items) and Bibliography (230 items). During the research 167 subjects (authors and institutions) involved with digital technologies within art and culture sector were mapped. The research is going on ...<br><br>Web page with the interview by Twan Eikelenboom for Virtueel Platform (in Dutch) hosts 51 pages pdf document with initial findings on the visual arts (in English), and several never-published illustrations of computer-generated artworks in the Netherlands: <br>- handwritten computer program of non-realized gallery installation 'Nixmur (automatisering)' (1969) by Remko Scha - printer that endlessly print out the text of the anti Vietnam war slogan 'Nixon murderer'.<br>- photo of the gallery installation 'Random diagonal: MGN.22' (1977) by Samuel Meyering<br>- video documentation of the 'Mobilodrom' (1979) - "a vehicle producing sounds in reaction to its environment" with real-time computing, by Michael Fahres (excerpt from TV broadcast from 1979, that authors did't knew about) <div><br></div><div><br>---<br><br><a href="http://darkofritz.net">http://darkofritz.net</a><br></div></body></html>