Introduction
Completed in 1970, Pixillation combines computational patterns, hand-worked pigment, crystal imagery and electronic music. It demonstrates the hybrid production of early computer film rather than an entirely automated image-making process.
RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Pixillation: work and context
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Work, material and process
The Henry Ford describes how slow computational production after a 1969 grant prompted Schwartz to work on glass, photograph crystals and reprocess computer footage. Gershon Kingsley’s Moog soundtrack contributed to the final audiovisual construction.
Section sources: Pixillation
Historical significance and questions
Editorial interpretation: the label computer-generated film can conceal editing, painting, optical treatment and musical collaboration. The node restores an artist’s material work to technological history. A machine’s name alone cannot explain the film’s visual rhythm.
Section sources: Pixillation
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Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Hummingbird.
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Experiments in Art and Technology (organization).
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Date displayed for this node: 1970 · Historical date recorded for the source: 1970
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Pixillation
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections/explore/articles/remembering-lillian-schwartz
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Provenance, translation & verification
Archive node #230 · Work and artistic practice
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Date as recorded: 1970
Remembering Lillian Schwartz ↗
Remembering Lillian Schwartz
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