1965: "Want to help pioneer what may become a new art form? All you need is paper, ink, a talent for mathematics and computer equipment worth about a quarter of a million dollars…"
From Computer Scores 'Breakthrough' in Art from the Lansing State Journal, May, 16 1965.
1965: "And are they good?… Arjay Miller, president of Ford Motor Co., thinks so. He bought five of the drawings on the exhibition’s opening day—at prices ranging around $20 each.
In fact, a lot of people apparently think so. Computer artist W. Gale Biggs says more than half of the 70 offerings were sold during the three-hour first day of the show."
Below: Arjay Miller in the 1960s.
Paul R. Harrison in 1965: "Our idea of art is that it’s something which communicates and has aesthetic values. Our work communicates and it does have aesthetic values. Therefore, it’s art.
Now if you ask us if we’re artists — that’s different…"
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