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A: Brooklyn, New York, United States, B: Stuttgart-Mitte, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Deck of punched cards serving as invitation to "Computer-Generated Pictures" exhibition (New York, 1965).
The first public exhibitions of computer art were:
Feb 5-19, 1965:
Georg Nees: Computergrafik. Studiengalerie der Technische Hochschule Stuttgart. Held by Frieder Nake and Georg Nees. Opened by Max Bense.
Apr 6-24, 1965:
Computer-generated pictures. Howard Wise Gallery, New York, held by A. Michael Noll, Bela Julesz, both of whom worked at Bell Labs. The announcement for the show was a small deck of colored IBM punch cards.
"The agreement was that any profits from the sale of the works would be split between the Wise Gallery and either Julesz or Noll. In the end, not a single work was sold" (Noll, First-Hand: Early Digital Art at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., accessed 01-19-2014).
Nov 5-26, 1965:
Computergrafik. Galerie Wendelin Niedlich, Stuttgart. held by Frieder Nake and Georg Nees. Opened by Max Bense.
