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...currently making the rounds of the public computer networks that causes infected machines equipped with voice synthesizers to intone the words "Don't panic." But the epidemic is giving the computer industry a chill. The virus that struck Macintosh owners last month was apparently spread through a program called FreeHand which is published by Seattle-based Aldus Corp. FreeHand is the first commercial software product known to have been a virus carrier. The bug could just as easily have instructed its host computers to erase their storage disks. Several companies are now marketing "vaccine" programs that offer some protection against...
...images, each done in model- airplane paint on an identical square of white-enameled steel. There are --to oversimplify this strangely permutational work, which fills a whole gallery in the present exhibition--four figurative motifs (house, tree, mountain, sea), three abstract ones (square, circle, triangle), three kinds of drawing (freehand, ruled, dots) and a wide but fixed number of standard colors, used straight from the can, never mixed on a palette...
...equipment enables engineers or draftsmen sitting in front of computer screens to make precise, elaborate and exquisitely detailed drawings of any piece of machinery or industrial part imaginable, without ever using rulers, compasses or any of the other traditional tools of the drafting trade. They can simply "sketch" freehand with an electronic pen right on the screen, and the computer, reaching into its memory, gives the rough shapes the precise tolerances requested, even rendering them in three dimensions, or creating solid forms...
Drawing styles themselves range from Jeffrey Hale's which in Blind Man's Buff veers as close to Saturday morning cartoons as Center Screen gets, to Maureen Sherwood's freehand pen-and-ink for her Sempre Libera. John Canemaker's Confessions of a Stardreamer has the quick sketch and metamorphos is that keeps the cliches of the jaded actress on the soundtrack alive...
...fast, ironical style. Her addition to last weekend's program, Tales from the Vienna Woods, based on the letters of Sigmund Freud, was equally eerie and compelling and funny. Her films, like Vera Neubauer's Animation for Live Action, are disturbing collages of live action film, rotoscoping, photography, freehand drawing, and photography of photography, with radical feminism and black humor. Soul's How the Hell Are You? is also based on letters and postcards from a homosexual male on the cosmopolitan circuit to his friend Jane who stays home. He's on his way to key West, where...