Computer Memoirs of Ray Lauzzana

This article traces the author's work with computers from his earliest experiences in the 1960s through the mid-1980s when personal computers and the Internet changed everything. The author's earliest work with computing involved developing a "critical path" system along the lines outlined by Buckminster Fuller. He continued mixing art and mathematics throughout his career, engaging psychophysics and synesthesia. By the 1980s, the author turned to publishing about computer graphics; in the mid-1980s, he homebrewed a "listserver" to distribute one of the first electronic publications—fineArt forum (fAf). In 1981, he was invited by Al Gore to develop an exhibition of computer artists at the Library of Congress for the Congressional Hearing on the Internet—the legislation passed, and computing has never been the same.