{"id":940,"date":"2013-01-25T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2013-01-25T13:57:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T18:57:13","slug":"the-worlds-first-figurative-computer-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/940\/the-worlds-first-figurative-computer-art","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Earliest Known Figurative Computer Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/01\/the-never-before-told-story-of-the-worlds-first-computer-art-its-a-sexy-dame\/267439\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/sage_pinup_1956.jpg\" alt=\"SAGE Pin-Up First Computer Art First Computer Porn\" class=\"centered shadow\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five thousand years ago, when massive beasts still roamed the earth, an early modern human carved <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Venus_of_Hohle_Fels\" target=\"_blank\">the figure of a sexually robust woman<\/a> into a piece of woolly mammoth tusk, creating the earliest known figurative artwork.  During a time of almost certain hardship and scarcity, when acquiring that tusk involved slaying an animal 100 times one&#8217;s weight, the artist devoted countless hours to create a sculpture that idolized nothing less than sex itself.<\/p>\n<p>35 millennia later, during a time when computing power was so scarce that it required a government defense budget to finance it, a late modern human <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/01\/the-never-before-told-story-of-the-worlds-first-computer-art-its-a-sexy-dame\/267439\/\" target=\"_blank\">utilized a $238 million military computer<\/a>, the largest such machine ever built, to render an image of a sexually robust woman on a glowing cathode ray tube screen.  The year was 1956, and its creation was a landmark moment in computer graphics and cultural history that has gone unnoticed until now.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full story I wrote about this landmark piece of digital art <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/01\/the-never-before-told-story-of-the-worlds-first-computer-art-its-a-sexy-dame\/267439\/\" target=\"_blank\">over at The Atlantic<\/a>.  I&#8217;d like to personally thank Lawrence Tipton, Robert Martina, and all of the SAGE veterans who helped me research this piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-five thousand years ago, when massive beasts still roamed the earth, an early modern human carved the figure of a sexually robust woman into a piece of woolly mammoth tusk, creating the earliest known figurative artwork. During a time of almost certain hardship and scarcity, when acquiring that tusk involved slaying an animal 100 times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}