Lectures
2012
AN EVENING WITH LILLIAN SCHWARTZ, Modern Mondays, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Tomorrow evening, the Museum of Modern Art is presenting a retrospective of work by legendary computer animator Lillian Schwartz. The 85-year-old Schwartz will be present at the screening to introduce her work: New York–based artist Lillian Schwartz (b. 1927) became a pioneer of computer-generated art in the late 1960s while a resident at Bell Laboratories, where she continued working as an artist, filmmaker, and art historian for over three decades. She was among the first American artists to employ computer language to create motion-graphics-based film and video art. Schwartz joins us to introduce a selection of her technically complex, finely executed investigations into visual perception. The program includes 2-D/3-D films from the 1970s to the present, such as Pixillation (1970), UFOs (1971), Enigma (1973), Olympiad (1973), and the newly released Before, Before (2012).”Films by Lillian Schwartz, National Film Board of Canada, Ars Nova Arts, Toronto, CanadaThe Films of Lillian Schwartz, Melwood Screening Room, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE, PARIS, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses.
THE THREE RIVER FILM FESTIVAL, PITTSBURGH, PA. SKYPE interview with Lillian F. Schwartz following screening of films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. November
UCR ARTSBLOCK, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. September
EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION, CHICAGO, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. October.
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE, NEW MUSEUM, NYC, NY, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. October.
CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz film “MUTATIONS”, score by Jean-Claude Risset. Part of a group show celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Avant-Garde Masters Grant program.
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, TORONTO, CANADA. Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. September.
NATIONAL FILM BOARD CANADA, SKYPE interview with Lillian F. Schwartz following screening of films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. May.
NORTHSIDE FILM FESTIVAL, BROOKLYN, NY. SKYPE interview with Lillian F. Schwartz following screening of films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. May.
COURTISANE FESTIVAL, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. January.
2011
SONIC TRUTH: Flaherty Seminar Films, Sep. 12.
CZECH INTERNATIONAL FILM SHOWING, SKYPE interview with Lillian F. Schwartz following screening of films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses.
CYBERNETIC CINEMA, NYC, NY. November 2.
SCAD, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. Oct
JIHLAVA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, SKYPE interview with Lillian F. Schwartz following screening of films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. October.
FLAHERTY ON THE ROAD, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY. October 14.
CYBERNETIC CINEMA, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. Churner and Churner Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, NY. October.
CHAMP D’ACTION, SKYPE interview with Lillian F. Schwartz following screening of films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. October.
PROTEUS GOWANUS GALLERY, BROOKLYN, NY, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. September.
FLAHERTY NYC SHOW, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses, NYC, NY. September.
FILM ANTHOLOGY, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses, NY September
FRENCH INP (NATIONAL PATRIMONY INSTITUTE) IN PARIS, SKYPE interview with Lillian F. Schwartz following screening of films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses. August.
PRIMER ENCUENTRO ARCHIVO MEMORIA IN MEXICO CITY, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses, August.
EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION, OCAD UNIVERSITY, TORONTO, CANADA, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses.
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS BOARD (CSTB) OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES. Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, DC. September 13.
UNIONDOCS SCREENING of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. June.
CINETECA NACIONAL, MEXICO CITY, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses, August.
THE 57TH ROBERT FLAHERTY FILM SEMINAR, SONIC TRUTH, COLGATE UNIVERSITY, HAMILTON, NEW YORK. Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses, June 18-24.
EXPANDED CINEMA AT THE PLANETARIUM CO-PRESENTED BY CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON AND HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses at Burke Baker Planetarium, May 14.
CINETECA NACIONAL, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz film MAYAN, Mexico City, August. Photographer – Laurens R. Schwartz
UCLA FILM FESTIVAL, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses, April.
WINNIPEG’S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films. May
UCLA FILM AND TV ARCHIVES’ BILLY WILDER THEATER, IN THE HAMMER MUSEUM, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses, May
FLATPACK FESTIVAL, BIRMINGHAM (UK), SKYPE interview with Lillian F. Schwartz following screening of films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses, March.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, PRINCETON, NJ, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses, November.
2009
ART CINEMA OFFOFF, Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses, Ghent, Holland. November
Screening of Lillian F. Schwartz films viewed in 3D with Chromadepth glasses, Utrecht, Holland. November.
1995
ART AND THE COMPUTER FOR WATT-MHBL, AT MURRAY HILL, NJ. June. (Women of AT&T).
1994
LEONARDO MEETS VIRTUAL REALITY, The Great Hall at the Cooper Union, NYC.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER SPIE COMPUTERS as an Artistic Medium.
PIXELLENCE, the new medium Pratt Institute.
1993
KEYNOTE SPEAKER IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND ON COMPUTERS IN THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, Glasgow School of Art, and Edinburgh University.
Overview of Computer Art” Readings from “The Computer Artist’s Handbook”, W. W. Norton. Small Computers in the Arts, Phil., Pa.
1992
LESSONS FROM LEONARDO: Additions to his Treatise. World Academy of Art & Science, Vinci, Italy.
THE ARTIST AND THE COMPUTER. Concordia University. Canada.
1991
COMPUTER ART & SOCIETY NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING AND VALUES, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.
COMPUTER ART AND ANIMATION FROM ’68 TO PRESENT Computer Science Department, University of Princeton.
PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA: THE FATHER OF COMPUTER ART School of Visual Arts, NYC.
1990
THE MISERICORDIA: A 2-dimensional translation into 3-dimensions Comitato Nazionale per il quinto centenario della morte di Piero della Francesco.
Electronic Restoration Comitato Nazionale per il quinto centenario della morte di Piero della Francesca, Italy.
INTERACTIVE ART AND ARTIFICIAL REALITY, “The New England School of Art & Design”. Boston, Ma.
MOMENTUM FOR THE 90’S, New York State Art Teachers Association. Kutshers, Plainview, N.Y.
1989
PIERO AND THE COMPUTER SANSEPOLCRO, Italy.
COMPUTERS AND LEONARDO DA VINCI DAYS, Corvallis, Oregon.
1988
The Staging of Leonardo’s LAST SUPPER First International Symposium on Electronic Art, Utrecht.
APPROPRIATION ART PIXIM 88 L’Image Numerique a Paris, Oct.
LEONARDO’S LAST SUPPER Univ. of Milan, School of Architecture.
UFO’S TO PABLO NERUDA ART – Hanover Fair 88.
1987
THE TWO MONA LISAS MIT Distinquished Lecture Series Media Forum.
THE MONA LISA Rochester Institute of Technology, Dec.4.
ANALYZING LEONARDO’S MONA LISA Laboratoire des Recherche du Muses de France: Palais du Louvre.
1986
CREATING A NEW WORLD OF ART: A sampling of computer-generated films from 1968 to 1986. Department of Information and Computer Sciences Colloquium. U. Hawaii at Manoa.
CREATING A NEW WORLD OF ART The Computer Museum, Boston, MA.
1985
COMPUTER ART – A Personal Perspective Bell Communications Research.
NEW EDITING TECHNIQUES BY COMPUTER With Film International Film Festival, Annecy, France.
1984
Film/Video Retrospective Lecture and Screening THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE at The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts.
THE COMPUTER AND ART – FILM, VIDEO, GRAPHICS. Soviet Specialists in Moscow and Leningrad sponsored by the United States Information Agency.
THE MAKING OF THE COMPUTER-GENERATED POSTER For The Museum of Modern Art Lecture at IBM, Armonk.
THE COMPUTER AS A MEDIUM FOR ART, “Relations Between The Visual Sciences and the Visual Arts”. The American Philosophical Society, April.
USING THE COMPUTER TO STUDY COLOR Siggraph Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1983
USING THE COMPUTER TO ANALYZE GREAT WORKS OF ART Invited Lecture Computer Symposium, Avignon, France.
FILMMAKING BY COMPUTER, Invited Lecture and Film Retrospective by the USIA in Athens, Greece.
1982
MOTION PICTURE ACADEMY Avant Garde Symposium.
THE COMPUTER & FILM, FILM/VIDEO RETROSPECTIVE by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
COMPUTER FILMS/LILLIAN SCHWARTZ LEHIGH UNIVERSITY Art Galleries, Pa., Feb.
COMPUTER-GENERATED ANIMATION, VENEZUELLAN ARTISTS AND FILM SPECIALISTS AT THE EMBASSY; TV presentation of Channel 2; National Art Gallery under the auspices of The National Film Institute of Venezuela and the USIA, Feb.
1981
AVANT-GARDE TECHNIQUES FOR FILM, Invited Lecture by US/China Cultural Relations, Shanghai, China.
COMPUTER GRAPHICS & SPATIAL ANALYSIS, Harvard Computer Graphics Week.
COMPUTERS AND ART, “CAD/CAM TECHNOLOGY IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING”, M.I.T. and the Boston Aquarium, March.
COMPUTER-VISION 81 London.
SPACE-PROBES NEXUS GALLERY & High Museum.
LILLIAN SCHWARTZ DAY at U.S. Embassy, Madrid, Spain
1980
NEW TECHNOLOGY AND FILM, The Brookings Institute, Washington, D.C.
SIGMA XI – Dartmouth College.
Image Processing “CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE”.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART London.
SLADE SCHOOL OF ART University College London.
Annual CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING INSTITUTE.
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF ART, London.
Inter-Color Society “THE STUDY OF COLOR”
EXXON Research Colloquium.
ETHNOLOGICAL FILM, Invited speaker and film showing at Centre Beaubourg – Paris, France.
COLOR BY COMPUTER-CONTROLLED COLOR MONITOR, Inter-Color. Society.
1979
COMPUTER AS A TOOL IN FILMMAKING, Colloque “L’Artiste et L’Ordinateru”, Centre Culturel Suedois, Paris, Oct. 22, 23, 24.
COMPUTERS & ANIMATION, Invited speaker and film retrospective at the United States Embassy, London, England.
ART AND COMPUTERS, Royal College of Art, London.
1978
SIGMA XI LECTURER, Rockefeller University.
BIBLIOTHEQUE PUBLIQUE D’INFORMATION – ethnographique film festival at Centre Georges Pompidou. PICTURES FROM A GALLERY and POET OF HIS PEOPLE.
UNESCO COLLOQUIUM ON CINEMA: Theory & Research Paris, France.
CENTRE BEAUBORG Paris, France. Lecture.
TRANSFORMATION, ANALYSIS. Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS the Huntsville Museum.
NEW JERSEY ARTIST OF THE MONTH Douglas College.
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER Maryland.
COLLOQUIUM-Secretariat d’Etat a’la Culture Office d’la Creation France.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN FILM AS ART, Sigma XI Lecturer, Rockefeller University.
MUSIC & ART BY COMPUTER, Invited colloquium AAAS, Philadelphia, Zellerbach Theater.
GRAPHICS & COMPUTERS, Invited Film Showing at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
THE COMPUTER AS A TOOL IN FILMMAKING, Invited Lecture, Centre Beauborg.
1977
INDEPENDENT AMERICAN FILMMAKERS : Southern Circuit (NEA).
RETROSPECTIVE, Centre Beaubourg Paris, France.
VANGUARD VIDEO – Film Carnegie Institute,Pittsburgh.
DANCE MOVEMENT IMPROVISATION WITH FILM HIGH MUSEUM, Atlanta, Georgia.
IFIP CONGRESS 77 Toronto.
ANIMATION AND EDUCATION Directed/Moderated for ICA.
FILMS BY WOMEN, Invited Conference, Annenberg Center for Communication Arts & Sciences.
L’ARTISTE ET L’ORDINATEUR, Invited colloquium, Swedish Cultural Center and the French Embassy.
THEORY & RESEARCH-FILM, Invited UNESCO Colloquium on Cinema: Paris, France.
ENHANCED COMPUTER IMAGERY, Invited Lecture, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland.
1976
COMPUTER FILM FOR IBM Systems Engineers Meeting.
FILM RETROSPECTIVE U.S. Embassy, Paris.
FOCUS ON CHANGE NEW SCHOOL for Social Research.
FILM FORUM The International.
SEMINAR FOR RCA PRINCETON, NJ.
CENTRE CULTURAL AMERICAIN, Dragon Theatre Paris.
NAVAL POST GRADUATE SCHOOL, Monterey “Image Science Colloquium”.
IBM SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM TORONTO, Canada.
1975
THE HIRSHHORN MUSEUM & SCULPTURE GARDEN, one- person (lecture & films).
Theatre d’ Assay with Jean-Claude Risset. Paris.
1974
COMPUTER GRAPHICS & FILM WORKSHOP New York University.
WOMEN BY WOMEN Centre Culturel Americain, Paris.
EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE-The International Computer Animation Festival.
1973
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ONTARIO, Canada. Feb.
FILM RETROSPECTIVE Newark State college, Union, NJ Feb.
1972
UNITED STATES EMBASSY, London, England. One-person film and lecture.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. Lecture and grant from IBM of Canada and Bell of Canada to produce computer-generated film. Production.
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, Philadelphia. Lecture and films.
UNITED STATES EMBASSY, London, England, one-person shows (films).
Lecture Series – “THE COMPUTER IN FILMMAKING” at the University of Toronto. Lectures.
1970
CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS in the Undergraduate curricula, Dartmouth College. “MATHOMS” and “UFO’s”. June.