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Computergraphik Anerkennung - Honorary Mention 1990

Communication - Dawn

Yoshiyuki Abe
To enter for Ars Electronica is a great pleasure for me. Fine-art-oriented competitions like Ars Electronica are important and valuable for CG artists. All my images are program-generated and especially math-based. With image acquisition by scanner and drawing with painting software, we can get something we've never seen. It must be something that a human being cannot produce in his brain. I want to build a scene of actually non-existing and non-imagined matters by using the newest and strongest tool human brain has ever invented: the computer.
The reason why to generate images on a machine is that we need a non-human interface for our computer-aided society to come, and we also have to think about mathematics-based, programmed, synthesized/generated images for expanding our perception. The fine arts have shown what a human being is able to do. The computer-generated art will show what a human being is able to understand. (Yoshiyuki Abe)

Technical background:

Communication-Dawn, 1990
Hw: Homebrew 16 Bit (80186+8087) 11 MHz
Sw: In Turbo C
Yoshiyuki Abe was born in Gumma, Japan, in 1947 and received his B.E. in photographic engineering from Chiba University, Japan, in 1972. Since 1972, he has been a freelance photographer and film director for shorts films. From 1982 to 1986 he concentrated on designing and constructing his own custom computer graphics system.