Chuck Csuri - the computer arts and animation pioneer has his
new
website online:
Charles Csuri is best known for pioneering the field of computer
graphics,
computer animation and digital fine art, creating the first
computer art
in 1964. Csuri has been recognized as the father of digital art
and computer
animation by the Smithsonian Magazine, and as a leading pioneer
of computer
animation by the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and The Association
for
Computing Machinery Special Interest Group Graphics
(ACM-SIGGRAPH) .
Between 1971 and 1987, while a senior professor at the Ohio State
University,
Charles Csuri founded the Computer Graphics Research Group, the
Ohio Super
Computer Graphics Project, and the Advanced Computing Center for
Art and
Design, dedicated to the development of digital art and computer
animation.
Csuri was co-founder of Cranston/Csuri Productions (CCP), one of
the worlds
first computer animation production companies. In 2000 Charles
Csuri
received both the 2000 Governor's Award for the Arts for the best
individual
artist, and The Ohio State University Sullivant Award, that
institution's
highest honor, in acknowledgment of his lifetime achievements in
the fields
of digital art and computer animation.