Arts/Entertainment Local artists find computers a happy medium By KIRK ADAMS Staff writer For one Lawrence couple, marriage has developed into a collaboration in computer art. But the collaboration does not end there. Another essential member is the committee. Colette and Jeff Bangert, who have been married 28 years, are a team. The couple uses Colette's expertise in fine art and Jeff's knowledge of computers to create fine art, computer style. Colette is a painter who graduated from the John Herron Art Institute at Indianapolis and received a master's degree in fine arts from Boston University. She has taught drawing at Avila College in Kansas City, Mo., and at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Jeff studied mathematics at Harvard University and is graphics supervisor at the University of Kansas Computer Center. And through his work on the computer drawings, Jeff is an artist, too. The couple's work has appeared in two New York exhibits since the middle of last month, one in The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the other at Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Colette's intricate hand-paintings hang about their house. Many are a mixed-media of gouache paint, colored pencil and ink. They began drawing with computers in the summer of 1967, when Jeff began testing a pen plotter at the Computer Center. This computer drawing, titled "Katie..Field Oval, Red," is an example of the computer art created by Collette and JangBert, a Lawrence couple. Much of what is called computer art is designed by computers, not the But the Bangerts' works are drawings. "We see it (the computer) as the medium. A lot of people see it as the artists, the Bangerts explained, and many of the works are not drawings but photographs of the computer screen. Their home computer, on which they do most of their work, is an IBM personal computer. The computer with a Hewlett-Packard 7475A plotter. First, they develop a drawing program. That may take up to a year. Then they use the program to make a series of drawings until they think they have exhausted the program's possibilities. For each drawing, they program calculations into the computer that specify what the drawing will look like. The computer then uses the program to draw images using the plotter with pens attached to it. Most of the drawings are in color. The work is tedious, but the images are unique. "What we're trying to do are real art drawings for people's walls and galleries and things like that. And it isn't out it's really hard to do." Jeff said Artists have to ask different questions when they draw with the computer than when they draw with their hands. Colette said the computer tapped her creativity in different ways than did her hand work. "It has allowed me to study what form is, and it has totally changed my hand work — it has deepened it, extended it." "I get to enhance myself, and Jeff gets to enhance himself. Two people really are better together. I really think that." Colette said, "It's more like research into visual aesthetics than the commercial aspects." The Bangerts said there was some resistance to computer art among other artists. One reason is that not enough people have seen computer art. Another reason is that art dealers are worried because computer The Bangerts see their art more as a part of their lives than as a hobby. Jeff said that because the two were artists, of course their work was for sale, but they were not too concerned with making money. art can be easily reproduced Also, they said, the art appears simplistic compared to hand-drawn art. That is because the drawings are limited by the kinds of shapes and lines the computer can draw — the pens on the plotter can draw only limited line widths. But these attitudes are changing. 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