Computergraphic
Photo, 65x64 cm, 1965

In June 1965 I took part in the very first ‘computer art’ exhibit (with another engineer colleague from Bell Labs, Mike Noll) in the Howard Wise Gallery in New York. Although there was a disclaimer below my computer-generated stereograms and textures that these were merely the results of scientific experiments, and that their creator did not regard them as pieces of art, the newspapers disregarded it. I have many clippings with headlines such as ‘Cold computer art!’ and ‘Computers take over arts!’

Bela Julesz: Dialogues on Perception. Cambridge, Massachusetts - London, England: MIT Press, 1995, p.96.