“Light Strokes” by Richard Greene received a Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica 1990.
“Light Strokes”, represents the results of a search I began in 1977 for a way to endow computer graphic input devices with the expressiveness of traditional artists' tools. It was obvious then that computers opened up a world of powerful new graphic possibilities.
About Richard Greene
Richard Greene was born in Utica, New York, in 1953. In 1974 he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and began working at the Exploratorium, a museum of science and perception in San Francisco.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.