"Cubic Limit" (1974) by Manfred Mohr

During my one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in 1971, I met the CEO of C.G.M (La Companie Generale de Micromatique), a data storage and preservation company, which specialized in micro films. He invited me to experiment on their brand new machine DATAGRAPHIX 4460 to make computer animations. I gladly accepted and during the next 4 years I made several short computer films. It was a very painful experience since the process was very slow and the turnover dragged out over many months.
Article citing Manfred Mohr's use of the Datagraphix machine, 1973

For the film, each frame was drawn with a light beam on a small high resolution screen with an attached camera which automatically photographed each frame onto celluloid film. This film was then transfered through a contact copy onto 16mm film to create the animations.

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Artificiata I (1969) by Manfred Mohr

Artificiata I was my first artist book. The drawings for the book made in 1968/1969 were my last drawings before I started using the computer in my work in 1969. I called the book Artificiata I because I saw it as an artificial visual sonata and felt I would make a second book Artificiata II when I started using the computer. I actually didn't make this second book Artificiata II until I returned to some of these ideas in 2012.

Published by Agentzia, Paris with a preface by composer Pierre Barbaud.

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"Complementary Cubes" (1973-4) by Manfred Mohr

Originally written for the film "Cubic Limit" but was not used in the film. It shows 2 sequences of subsets of all the combinations of 2 rotating cubes, one with 'n' edges and the other with '12 minus n' edges. Images from this film were published in the catalog "Cubic Limit", 1975 (see below). Images from this film were subsequently used in artworks: "transformations of texts and images", 1976 and "signs and co-signs", 1976.

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