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3 unusual facts about Larry Cuba


Electronic Visualization Laboratory

Computer artist Larry Cuba spent time at EVL, using the tools there for his films 3/78 and Calculated Movements, as well as a short special effects sequence for Star Wars.

Larry Cuba

Created in Chicago with Tom DeFanti's Graphic Symbiosis System GRASS, consists of sixteen "objects", each composed of 100 points of light, some of them geometric shapes like circles and squares, others more organic shapes resembling gushes of water.

Sharon Louden

During this program Louden's multiple animations were screened with other notable works, such as: "Lines Horizontal" Norman McLaren, 1962 ; "Two Space" Larry Cuba, 1979 ; "Free Radicals" Len Lye, 1958 ; "Symphonie Diagonal" Viking Eggeling, 1924 ; "Silence" Jules Engel,1968 ; and "Chemical Sundown" by Jeremy Blake, 2001 to name only a few.



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