[INCUNABULUM OF EARLY AI ART - COMPUTER ART - POST-DIGITAL BOOK] Computer Graphics

by Willsberger, Johann (editor) and Frank Böttger, Sylvia Roubaud, Gerold Weiss, Aron Warszawski, Rolf Wölk (artists)

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[Munich-Ottobrunn: Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH], 1972. Square quarto (34 × 34 cm). Original printed laminated boards; 160 pp. with over 130 full-page reproductions of computer graphics as well as some examples of applied technical graphics of aircraft development and road planning. With 10 separate color screen prints by Frank Böttger, Sylvia Roubaud, Gerold Weiss, Aron Warszawski, and Rolf Wölk. Film lamination on the binding joints with age-typical minor damage and wear; half title and last page (colophon) fox-stained; else good or better; the color serigraphs very good. First and only edition of an elaborately designed early publication on computer-generated art; here a copy from the part of the print run produced for IBM. The volume was not published in Max Bense's academic environment, but is the result of industrial, experimental research. On the occasion of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, the exhibition MBB Computer Graphics was shown on the premises of Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH. The exhibits were created by a team of mathematicians, engineers, and mechanical engineers from MBB's aircraft department, together with the painter and graphic artist Sylvia Roubaud, mainly in their spare time. Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm was one of the leading German aerospace and defense companies at the time and was later acquired by Daimler-Benz. One of the company's best-known projects was the development of the world's first passenger-carrying magnetic levitation train, which

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