Edward E. Zajec

Year of birth, place
1938, Trieste, Italy
Role at the ZKM
in the archives
Biography
Edward Zajec studied fine arts at the Cooper School of Art, Cleveland, OH (1959–1961), the Akademija za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje, Ljubljana (grad. 1966), and at Ohio University, Athens, OH (M.F.A. 1968). 1968 instructor at Carleton College, Northfield, MN, where he began working with computers. 1969 teaching position for painting at St. Olaf College, Northfield. 1970 returned to Trieste where he contiued artistic work with computers. 1980 professor of computer art at the Transmedia Center at Syracuse University, where he instituted computer graphics for the fine arts program. He lives in Syracuse, NY, USA.
Exhib.: 1968, »RAM L1«, Boliou Gallery, Northfield, MN. 1969, exhib. accompanying the “Fall Joint Computer Conference,” Las Vegas, NV. 1970, »RAM«, Galleria La Cappella, Trieste.
Lit.: E. Z., “The Cube: Theme and Variations,” in: »PAGE«, 20, 1972, p. 4.

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