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Moving Pictures

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Published in Personal Computer News #078

Moving Pictures

Computers and art came together in an exhibition at the Hamilton Gallery, in London last week - the result was moving pictures. With exhibits displayed on monitors, the three-day event had pictures produced by under 12s to the over 18s. It was the result of the Commodore International Computer Art Challenge, where 200 entrants wrote their own software using a Vic 20 or Commodore 64, to produce a still or moving picture.

The winners shared £25,000 of prize money to buy Commodore equipment. And the overall winner of the competition was Hugh Riley, with his Meditation Failure and Obsessiveness pictures. As well as £1,500 worth of Commodore equipment, Hugh, from Manchester, has won a £5,000 endowment to study computer art anywhere in the world.