Short films by Lillian F. Schwartz (1927-2024)

what I find interesting in her short films is the "disconnect" between visual and audio. it is not perfectly synchronized, perhaps it would not have been possible to do so. but today with all out technical possibilities, to see something like this, it transmits a kind of purity and innocence.

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Post by joony527 » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 12:33 PM UTC

Very nice short films! Had fun watching them

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Post by lproven » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 12:39 PM UTC

joony527 wrote: post #6

Very nice short films! Had fun watching them

All of them just display an error message for me. Nothing is playable.

What am I missing here?

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Post by anonu » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 12:49 PM UTC

kiisupai wrote: post #2

For more context on her: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lillian-schwartz-compu...

> becoming the first female artist in residence at Bell Labs

I never knew about her - thank you for posting. The intersection of art and computers has always fascinated me. And clearly she was a pioneer in this field.

Here's the NYT obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/technology/lillian-schwar...

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Post by lproven » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 12:50 PM UTC

lproven wrote: post #7

joony527 wrote: post #6

Very nice short films! Had fun watching them

All of them just display an error message for me. Nothing is playable. What am I missing here?

Seems to be a Mozilla browser fail. Works in Chrome. :-(

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Post by rootbear » Tue, Oct 15, 2024, 2:36 PM UTC

When I was at the University of Maryland in the late 70s, Schwartz visited the Computer Vision Lab and gave a talk. Sadly, I don't remember much about the talk but I did enjoy meeting her and discussing computer art.