The year is 1978. As a rebel against Warhol’s 3,000-year-old silkscreen technology, I had invented and completed a
painting machine (probably the first electronic inkjet printer ever) at 210 Fifth Avenue, fourth floor, New York City.
The first painting machine, “the mother of all digital.” In the machine are displayed the very first machine drawings,
announcing the new age of electronic artworks. The large black-and-white, scan-like drawings like the tv monitors
ready to receive all that is to come into its field in the next twenty-nine years. A Rosetta stone or tabula rasa for art
and technology in the twenty-first century.
painting machine (probably the first electronic inkjet printer ever) at 210 Fifth Avenue, fourth floor, New York City.
The first painting machine, “the mother of all digital.” In the machine are displayed the very first machine drawings,
announcing the new age of electronic artworks. The large black-and-white, scan-like drawings like the tv monitors
ready to receive all that is to come into its field in the next twenty-nine years. A Rosetta stone or tabula rasa for art
and technology in the twenty-first century.
Photograph by Beau Ryan.