Joan Truckenbrod
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Joan Truckenbrod | |
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| Born | 1945 (age 79–80) Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Education | School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| Known for | digital art |
Joan Truckenbrod (born 1945 in Greensboro, North Carolina)[1] is an American artist. She is known for her work in digital art, and is credited as being one of the earliest pioneers of digital art in the 1960s.[2] She uses sculptural forms in video to explore "the simultaneous experience of multiple realities that is evoked through ritual."[3] An essential aspect of her artwork is "making things by hand, integrating hand construction with the electronic imagery of video".[4]
She received an MFA degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1979.[1] Truckenbrod began her work with creating line drawing in 1975 using the computer program in Fortran programming language. She created fiber textiles in 1978 and 1979 "using heat transfer color prints hand-ironed onto fabric". She also created one of the first courses in the computer graphics called "Creative Computer Imaging".[4]
