Charles Csuri (born July 4, 1922), aka Chuck Csuri, is a pioneer in the field of computer art and a former All American college football player. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. An All-American "team" is an honorary Sports team composed of outstanding Amateur players those considered the best players of a specific season for College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, Colleges and military academies
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Digital Art
Charles Csuri is best known for pioneering the field of computer graphics, computer animation and digital fine art, creating the first computer art in 1964. Csuri has been recognized as the father of digital art and computer animation by Smithsonian, and as a leading pioneer of computer animation by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group Graphics (ACM-SIGGRAPH). Smithsonian is a monthly Magazine published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street between Fifth Between 1971 and 1987, while a senior professor at the Ohio State University, Charles Csuri founded the Computer Graphics Research Group, the Ohio Super Computer Graphics Project, and the Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design, dedicated to the development of digital art and computer animation. Csuri was co-founder of Cranston/Csuri Productions (CCP), one of the world's first computer animation production companies. In 2000 Charles Csuri received both the 2000 Governor's Award for the Arts for the best individual artist, and The Ohio State University Sullivant Award, that institution's highest honor, in acknowledgment of his lifetime achievements in the fields of digital art and computer animation. His current exhibition "Beyond Boundaries" is a retrospective of seventy of his most groundbreaking works of computer art. The exhibition is scheduled to travel to museums in Europe and Asia.
Football
Csuri is in the Football Hall of Fame as M. V. P. in the Big Ten Conference and captain of the Ohio State University's first national championship football team in 1942. The Ohio State University ( OSU) is a Coeducational public Research university in the state of Ohio.
Veteran
He is a WWII veteran and served his country from 1943-1946. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In 1945 Csuri received the Bronze Star for heroism in the Battle of the Bulge. The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military decoration which may be awarded for bravery acts of merit or meritorious service The Ardennes Offensive (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945 was a major German offensive launched towards the end of World War II through the forested Ardennes Mountains
Academia
After WWII, he returned to Ohio State to complete his M. A. in art in 1948. In 1949 he joined the faculty of the Department of Art The Ohio State University. In 1978 he became a Professor of Art Education and in 1986 a Professor of Computer Information Science. He is still a professor Emeritus at The Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design The Ohio State University.
External links
- Charles Csuri's official website
- Charles Csuri Archive at the Ohio State University
- Charles Csuri's profile at Siggraph
- Charles Csuri: Beyond Boundaries 1963—present
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Ohio State Buckeyes Football Season MVP 1942 |
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