Lillian Schwartz, Computer Art Pioneer Who Awed Scientists and Curators Alike, Dies at 97

Lillian Schwartz, an artist who found visually dazzling ways of using computers to move painting into the future, blazing new trails for many digital artists who came after her, has died at 97. Kristen Gallerneaux, a curator at the Henry Ford Museum, whose collection includes Schwartz’s archive, confirmed her death on Monday. Schwartz’s films translated painterly styles into pixels, portraying warping forms and blinking grids using computer technologies. In that way, she found a means of injecting new life into the experiments being done on canvas by modernists during the first half of the 20th century. Her achievemen......

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