1. David Em was born on 1952 and is an American digital artist, known for his pioneering breakthroughs in computer art.
10 Facts About David Em
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David Em was born in 1952 in Los Angeles, California.
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David Em's father was a petroleum engineer and his mother was an illustrator.
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David Em studied painting for three years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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David Em created his first digital picture in 1975 at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, California, using SuperPaint, "the first complete digital paint system".
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David Em created digital art at the California Institute of Technology, and Apple Computer.
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David Em's images have been presented internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou, the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, MIT, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
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David Em is the first digital artist to have his working papers acquired by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
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David Em's work is independent of any group or movement.
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David Em says he "makes pictures with electronic light, sculpts with memory", and "evolves images that grow into and out of each other".