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Short films by Lillian F. Schwartz (1927-2024)

105 points by kiisupai 2y ago

kiisupai 2y ago
For more context on her: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lillian-schwartz-computer-art-dead-1234721078/ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lillian-schwartz-compu...
- anonu 2y ago
  > becoming the first female artist in residence at Bell Labs I never knew about her - thank you for posting. The intersection of art and computers has always fascinated me. And clearly she was a pioneer in this field. Here's the NYT obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/technology/lillian-schwartz-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/technology/lillian-schwar...
chelseak6 2y ago
Short films are ^^^^
wiz21c 2y ago
The mother of all the demoscene !!!
inatreecrown2 2y ago
what I find interesting in her short films is the "disconnect" between visual and audio. it is not perfectly synchronized, perhaps it would not have been possible to do so. but today with all out technical possibilities, to see something like this, it transmits a kind of purity and innocence.
joony527 2y ago
Very nice short films! Had fun watching them
- lproven 2y ago
  All of them just display an error message for me. Nothing is playable. What am I missing here?
  - lproven 2y ago
    Seems to be a Mozilla browser fail. Works in Chrome. :-(
    - terminalbraid 2y ago
      Works fine in Firefox for me.
    - yuvalr1 2y ago
      Works for me on FF
rootbear 2y ago
When I was at the University of Maryland in the late 70s, Schwartz visited the Computer Vision Lab and gave a talk. Sadly, I don't remember much about the talk but I did enjoy meeting her and discussing computer art.
ChrisArchitect 2y ago
Related: Lillian Schwartz, Pioneer in Computer-Generated Art, Dies at 97 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41844260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41844260
myth_drannon 2y ago
I wonder if some of the Amiga demos were inspired by her art, they have very similar effects and hers are at least a decade earlier.
pdr94 2y ago
I saw this here so many times, I guess Amiga demos were really inspired by this
bryanrasmussen 2y ago
so I guess this stuff will be out of copyright in 2094 then?
imaginationra 2y ago
I feel like I had to watch these as part of my MKULTRA programming sessions.

105 points by kiisupai 2y ago

For more context on her: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lillian-schwartz-computer-art-dead-1234721078/ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lillian-schwartz-compu...

anonu 2y ago
> becoming the first female artist in residence at Bell Labs I never knew about her - thank you for posting. The intersection of art and computers has always fascinated me. And clearly she was a pioneer in this field. Here's the NYT obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/technology/lillian-schwartz-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/technology/lillian-schwar...

chelseak6 2y ago

Short films are ^^^^

wiz21c 2y ago

The mother of all the demoscene !!!

inatreecrown2 2y ago

what I find interesting in her short films is the "disconnect" between visual and audio. it is not perfectly synchronized, perhaps it would not have been possible to do so. but today with all out technical possibilities, to see something like this, it transmits a kind of purity and innocence.

joony527 2y ago

Very nice short films! Had fun watching them

lproven 2y ago
All of them just display an error message for me. Nothing is playable. What am I missing here?
- lproven 2y ago
  Seems to be a Mozilla browser fail. Works in Chrome. :-(
  - terminalbraid 2y ago
    Works fine in Firefox for me.
  - yuvalr1 2y ago
    Works for me on FF

rootbear 2y ago

When I was at the University of Maryland in the late 70s, Schwartz visited the Computer Vision Lab and gave a talk. Sadly, I don't remember much about the talk but I did enjoy meeting her and discussing computer art.

ChrisArchitect 2y ago

Related: Lillian Schwartz, Pioneer in Computer-Generated Art, Dies at 97 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41844260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41844260

myth_drannon 2y ago

I wonder if some of the Amiga demos were inspired by her art, they have very similar effects and hers are at least a decade earlier.

pdr94 2y ago

I saw this here so many times, I guess Amiga demos were really inspired by this

bryanrasmussen 2y ago

so I guess this stuff will be out of copyright in 2094 then?

imaginationra 2y ago

I feel like I had to watch these as part of my MKULTRA programming sessions.