Harold Cohen

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Harold Cohen (born May 1, 1928 in London - † April 27, 2016 ) was a British painter , graphic artist and computer scientist . He lived and worked in London, San Diego / California and New York City . His painting can be assigned to Abstract Expressionism . He is the older brother of the internationally known painter Bernard Cohen (* 1933).

life and work

Harold Cohen graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 1951 after studying art . He went on a study trip to Italy . From 1952 to 1966 Cohen held various teaching positions in England.

His work gained international attention in the 1960s, in 1961 he took part in the II. Biennale de Paris and in 1963 in the Tokyo Biennale, in 1964 he was invited to the painting department at documenta III in Kassel . In 1966 Cohen took part in the Venice Biennale as one of five British artists . In 1977 he was invited a second time to a documenta in Kassel, to documenta 6 in the drawing department .

In 1968 Cohen received a visiting professorship in visual arts at the University of California at San Diego ( USA ). In 1969 he took over the management of her department for visual arts and became founding director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). Harold Cohen shows great interest in programming and artificial intelligence . In 1971 he was invited as a visiting researcher to the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford University to work on the development of a drawing machine. In 1974 Harold Cohen programmed the first program version of AARON : AARON is a kind of algorithm for the drawing movement of the human hand for an autonomous computer as a drawing machine.

Literature and Sources

  • documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Memory of Harold Cohen
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter, printmaker and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2016