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Back in 1983, as part of the Visual Studies program at MIT I took a Computer Graphics course at the Architecture Machine Group laboratory, I wrote a program in PL1 language that could generate images of modern art, abstract works of Mondrian, Malevich, Newman, Reinhardt, Stella,… which were in a way electronic copies of works of art. Another program would generate installation views on two simulated walls with works of these artists. Generated images were shown on a separate color screen(frame buffer) maximum resolution 640×480. Even so there was not enough memory in the huge computer to be saved. The only way to save the images was as slides taken by a classic photo-camera and this is how it became possible to show them now. Those were simple programs and all the images were in fact 2D. Nevertheless those low resolution computer generated images looked pretty good and many colleagues and visitors to the Lab liked them. This project named “Electronic Gallery” even received an award from the MIT Council for the Arts.