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Darcy Gerbarg is a New York painter and digital artist who has made art with computers since 1979. She taught NYU's first computer art course and directed the first SIGGRAPH art shows.
And what happened as people found out that I was using computers to make art, which started in '79, was that I'd walk into the room and people would move away from me as if I almost had some awful disease or something.
Darcy Gerbarg, 1980s Computer Art: Mark Wilson, David Em, Dan Sandin
Darcy Gerbarg is another important person in that trajectory. She also recognized the importance of the physical art object. She understood the importance of something—a painting, something you hung on a wall.
A. Michael Noll, A. Michael Noll on When It All Started