Lillian Schwartz

Lillian Schwartz
Schwartz at Bell Labs in the 1970s
Born
Lillian Feldman

(1927-07-13)July 13, 1927
DiedOctober 12, 2024(2024-10-12) (aged 97)
Known forComputer-mediated art
Spouse
James Schwartz
(m. 1946)
AwardsWinsor McCay Award, Emmy Award

Lillian Feldman Schwartz (July 13, 1927 – October 12, 2024) was an American artist considered a pioneer of computer-mediated art and one of the first artists notable for basing almost her entire oeuvre on computational media. Many of her ground-breaking projects were done in the 1960s and 1970s, well before the desktop computer revolution made computer hardware and software widely available to artists.