Primary Study:On The Birth Of Computer Art

In contemporary terminology,"Computer Art" has seldomly appeared as a discussion topic in the academic world;most likely,it will be absorbed into the spectra of Digital Art,Media Art,and New Media Art.Those scholars,who still insisted on using the term "Computer Art," are using it out of respecting to those pioneers' mighty contributions as well as longing for the chaotic era of Computer Art.The notorious "Two Cultures" lectures in the 1950 s intensified the divison between Art and Science.It caused an extended chaotic debate among scholars.In the 1960 s,Computer Art as "The Third Culture" was treated as a fill in the huge gap solution between Art and Science.It comes,not only,with great expectations but also with enormous biases;unfortunately,it slowly faded away and eventually exited the stage of Art.Since the beginning of Computer Art 50+ years ago,the related researches by western academy have been gradually diminished starting in the 1990s;on the other hand,similarly researches in the mainland have come to a complete overhaul also in the 90 s.The scholars researching speed on the definition of Computer Art is falling way behind the rapid development and multiplication ability of computational science.Scholars felt completely disoriented by this complex and multivariating development in computational science.Computer Art still exists nowadays;however,it has infiltrated and fully integrated into different branches of Art.It also carries all its controversies and problems into these branches of Art.Thus,it is crucial to dig up the relationship between the Computer Art's ancient history and the pioneer Art movement in the same era.In addition,it's critical to analyze the negative evaulation.The purpose of this thesis is to provide the author a foundation and reference point for her future research on Computer Art creation,implementation,and research through the in-depth analysis of the history of Computer Art.