- Title:
- Derivatives of an Image: Transformation in Degree Zero
- Object name(s):
- Brief description:
- Derivadas de uma Imagem: Transformação em Grau Zero (Derivatives of an Image: Transformation in Degree Zero), by Waldemar Cordeiro and Giorgio Moscati, lithograph after impact print, Brazil, 1971
- Brief description:
- Lithograph showing an image of a romantic young couple made up of symbols that create lighter and darker tones.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Prints
- Associated concept:
- Computer Art
- Credit line:
- Given by Thomas Cordeiro Guedes and Grégoire Cordeiro Belhassen through the Mayor Gallery
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2018LG5967/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 61
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 44.5
- Inscription content:
- 'Derivadas de uma Imagem'
- Inscription interpretation:
- Inscribed in pencil, below image
- Inscription content:
- 'Waldemar Cordeiro e Giorgio Moscati offset 1971'
- Inscription interpretation:
- Inscribed in pencil, below image
- Material:
- paper
- Material:
- ink
- Object name:
- Object number:
- E.202-2018
- Object production date:
- 1971
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1971-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1971-12-31
- Object production note:
- Made using an IMB 360/44 mainframe computer
- Object production note:
- after 1969 original
- Object production person:
- Waldemar Cordeiro
- Person's association:
- artist
- Object production place:
- Brazil
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Lithograph showing an image of a romantic young couple made up of symbols that create lighter and darker tones.
- Reproduction number:
- 2018LG5967
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Technique:
- lithography
- Technique:
- Lithograph, after a computer generated impact print
- Text:
- Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers (2018) WALDEMAR CORDEIRO (1925–73) AND GIORGIO MOSCATI (DATES UNKNOWN) Derivatives of an Image: Zero-Degree Transformation (Derivadas de uma Imagem: Transformação em Grau Zero) Brazil, made 1969, printed 1971 This is thought to be one of the first computer artworks made in Brazil. It is one of a series of images created by the Italian-born Brazilian artist Waldemar Cordeiro, with physicist Giorgio Moscati. Using an IBM mainframe computer, Cordeiro and Moscati transformed a photograph of a romantic young couple into symbols that create lighter and darker tones. Lithograph, after a computer-generated impact print Given by Thomas Cordeiro Guedes and Grégoire Cordeiro Belhassen through the Mayor Gallery Museum no. E.202-2018
- Text date:
- 07/07/2018-18/11/2018
- Text reason:
- Gallery label text
- Text:
- Waldemar Cordeiro (1925-1973) was born in Italy and trained at the School of Fine Arts in Rome. He emigrated to Brazil in 1949 and soon became a prominent member of the Brazilian avant garde scene as one of the main theorists and practitioners of concrete art in that country. In 1968, he became one of the first Brazilian artists to use a computer to create images, when he gained access to an IBM 360/44 computer in the Physics Department of the University of São Paulo. The original image, of which this is a later print, is thought to be one of the first computer-generated artworks made in Brazil. It is one of a series of images created by Cordeiro, with physicist Giorgio Moscati. Using the IBM 360/44 mainframe computer, Cordeiro and Moscati transformed a photograph of a romantic young couple into symbols that create lighter and darker tones.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arreola, P., Gardner, C. and Lenz, M. Digital Art: 1960s - Now. London: Thames & Hudson with the Victoria and Albert Museum,
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p. 53, fig. 5.
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/dde1a170-8fe0-39f7-9ab1-9f21a2489a06, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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