ANTICIPATION , AESTHETICS & INNOVATION

What are these?

1801: Jacquard Loom*

Inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard designs a loom that weaves based on a series of punched cards.

The Jacquard Machine is able to move individual warp threads up and down according to the pattern of holes punched into the cards.*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY_gQ9TNIUw

*http://www.alientravelguide.com/art/weaving/history/jacquard.htm

Advanced Pattern Making and Design

1890: Herman Hollerith’sTabulating Machine*

Used punched card as the basis for storing and processing information 

Founded the company that was to become IBM

*http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/hollerith.html

Not So Different…

Computer Programming*

*http://www.imagineiteasier.com/articles/Installation/installation.php

Steps to programming Computer programmers prepare punch cards Feed them into the computer Computer processes cards http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH0MXZ

-T4Js 1985 “Calculated Movements” by Larry Cuba

Present: New Era of Computer Animation

Imagination is the only limit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xStm-qC

drhA 2004 “Microcosm” by Dr. Jo Takayama