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

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    101 points kiisupai | 16 comments | 15 Oct 24 10:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.836s | source | bottom
    1. kiisupai ◴[15 Oct 24 10:58 UTC] No.41847240[source]▶
    For more context on her:

    https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lillian-schwartz-compu...

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    2. chelseak6 ◴[15 Oct 24 12:12 UTC] No.41847734[source]▶
    Short films are ^^^^
    3. wiz21c ◴[15 Oct 24 12:27 UTC] No.41847846[source]▶
    The mother of all the demoscene !!!
    4. inatreecrown2 ◴[15 Oct 24 12:30 UTC] No.41847878[source]▶
    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.
    5. joony527 ◴[15 Oct 24 12:33 UTC] No.41847903[source]▶
    Very nice short films! Had fun watching them
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    6. lproven ◴[15 Oct 24 12:39 UTC] No.41847947[source]▶
    All of them just display an error message for me. Nothing is playable.

    What am I missing here?

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    7. anonu ◴[15 Oct 24 12:49 UTC] No.41848019[source]▶
    > 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-schwar...

    8. lproven ◴[15 Oct 24 12:50 UTC] No.41848026{3}[source]▶
    Seems to be a Mozilla browser fail. Works in Chrome. :-(
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    9. rootbear ◴[15 Oct 24 14:36 UTC] No.41849077[source]▶
    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.
    10. ChrisArchitect ◴[15 Oct 24 14:54 UTC] No.41849253[source]▶
    Related:

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

    11. yuvalr1 ◴[15 Oct 24 15:22 UTC] No.41849547{4}[source]▶
    Works for me on FF
    12. myth_drannon ◴[15 Oct 24 15:56 UTC] No.41849893[source]▶
    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.
    13. pdr94 ◴[15 Oct 24 15:59 UTC] No.41849924[source]▶
    I saw this here so many times, I guess Amiga demos were really inspired by this
    14. bryanrasmussen ◴[15 Oct 24 19:05 UTC] No.41851994[source]▶
    so I guess this stuff will be out of copyright in 2094 then?
    15. imaginationra ◴[15 Oct 24 20:33 UTC] No.41852811[source]▶
    I feel like I had to watch these as part of my MKULTRA programming sessions.