Short films by Lillian F. Schwartz (1927-2024)

(lillian.com)

105 points | by kiisupai 9 months ago ago

16 comments

  • ChrisArchitect 9 months ago

    Related:

    Lillian Schwartz, Pioneer in Computer-Generated Art, Dies at 97 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41844260

  • kiisupai 9 months ago
  • rootbear 9 months ago

    When I was at the University of Maryland in the late 70s, Schwartz visited the Computer Vision Lab and gave a talk. Sadly, I don't remember much about the talk but I did enjoy meeting her and discussing computer art.

  • wiz21c 9 months ago

    The mother of all the demoscene !!!

  • inatreecrown2 9 months ago

    what I find interesting in her short films is the "disconnect" between visual and audio. it is not perfectly synchronized, perhaps it would not have been possible to do so. but today with all out technical possibilities, to see something like this, it transmits a kind of purity and innocence.

  • myth_drannon 9 months ago

    I wonder if some of the Amiga demos were inspired by her art, they have very similar effects and hers are at least a decade earlier.

  • pdr94 9 months ago

    I saw this here so many times, I guess Amiga demos were really inspired by this

  • imaginationra 9 months ago

    I feel like I had to watch these as part of my MKULTRA programming sessions.

  • joony527 9 months ago

    Very nice short films! Had fun watching them

    • lproven 9 months ago

      All of them just display an error message for me. Nothing is playable.

      What am I missing here?

      • lproven 9 months ago

        Seems to be a Mozilla browser fail. Works in Chrome. :-(

  • bryanrasmussen 9 months ago

    so I guess this stuff will be out of copyright in 2094 then?

  • chelseak6 9 months ago

    Short films are ^^^^