Desmond Paul Henry
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Desmond Paul Henry (1921–2004) was a Manchester University Lecturer and Reader in Philosophy (1949–82). He was one of the first British artists to experiment with machine-generated visual effects at the time of the emerging global computer art movement of the 1960s (The Cambridge Encyclopaedia 1990 p. 289; Levy 2006 pp. 178–180). During this period, Henry constructed a succession of three electro-mechanical drawing machines from modified bombsight analogue computers which were employed in World War II bombers to calculate the accurate release of bombs onto their targets (O'Hanrahan 2005). Henry's machine-generated effects resemble complex versions of the abstract, curvilinear graphics which accompany Microsoft's Windows Media Player. Henry's machine-generated effects may therefore also be said to represent early examples of computer graphics: "the making of line drawings with the aid of computers and drawing machines" (Franke 1971, p. 41).
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Desmond Paul Henry | |
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Born | July 5th.1921 Huddersfield, Yorkshire, UK |
Died | October 24, 2004 Manchester, Lancashire, UK |
Nationality | British |
Notable work | Outputs of Drawing Machines 1,2 and 3 |
Movement | Computer Art and Generative Art |
Spouse | Louisa Henriette Bayen (1920-1992) |
Children | Anne-Marie, born 1948. Rita, born 1951. Elaine, born 1957. |
Website | http://www.desmondhenry.com/ |
During the 1970s Henry focused on developing his Cameraless Photography experiments. He went on to make a fourth and a fifth drawing machine in 1984 and 2002 respectively. These later machines however, were based on a mechanical pendulum design and not bombsight computers (O'Hanrahan 2005).