Have you ever wondered what could a single military project, known as the Manhattan Project, accomplish when it came shrouded in wartime secrecy? The Manhattan Project, known for creating the atomic bomb, has accomplished much more than its original purpose. This film will take you on a journey to discover lesser-known technological wonders that emerged
WHAT IF WE BEGAN the story of digital art not with a screen but with a canvas? In the first room of the exhibition “Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, visitors are confronted by I.B.M. Disc Pack, a large grisaille painting of six thin, industrial-looking disks stacked on a spindle. As the title indicates, this 1965 work by Lowell Nesbitt which evidences Pop art’s fascination with commodity fetishism while anticipating the sometimes frigid Photorealism of the 1970s offers a close-up view of the spinning magnetic hard disks IBM invented in the
COBOL is now into its seventh decade of usage as a global programming language and continues to be hugely important as a system language for the global economy.