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A mechanical or computer-driven device that makes drawings, from 19th-century harmonographs to plotters and robot arms. Artists build them to share authorship with the machine.
In 1963 my dad designed a drawing machine, essentially an analog computer. He was intrigued by the idea of transforming his drawings by computer.
Caroline Csuri, Caroline Csuri on Charles Csuri and Computation as Playground
Only when the slow, extremely slow drawing machine did its work, totally according to what the computer had produced. And what the computer had produced was the result of my program.
Frieder Nake, Frieder Nake Interview