Untitled
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Title
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Untitled
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Creator
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Craig Hickman
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Artist ID
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93
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Date of Work
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1979
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Description
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Color photo of green pole coming out of the ground next to a road.
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Category of Media
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Photograph
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Media
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Color photo
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Accession Number
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2003.001
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Location
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storage - VB-3
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Date Acquired
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2003
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Dimensions of Work
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8.5" x 12.25"
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Artist Bio
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Craig Hickman is a photographer, software designer and university professor. He is a co-founder of Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, creator of the Kid Pix art program, and Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Oregon. He was recently honored as a pioneer who has made a profound impact as part of Apple’s 30th anniversary of the Macintosh.
Source: http://red-green-blue.com/about/
Craig Hickman was studying photography at Evergreen State College in 1972 with the aim of taking a career in fine art photography when he encountered a friend entering code into a teletype in the college's terminal room. This impressed upon Hickman a desire to learn how to program. After leaving college he continued to write programs for his own education, and by 1988 owned an Apple Macintosh and had begun distributing software in the public domain.
While using MacPaint that year, his then-three-year-old son expressed a desire to use the application. Hickman noted how quickly he adapted to the use of the mouse and keyboard, but also that he inadvertently activated pop-up menus and other user interface elements. It was this experience that encouraged Hickman to write a simple paint program for his son to use; he also decided to make this freely available.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Pix
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Abstract
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Craig Hickman studied photography at Evergreen, where he also learned computer programming. He later began developing software that became "Kid Pix," for Apple Macintosh. In Portland, Hickman co-founded the influential Blue Sky photography gallery, and subsequently became Professor of Art at the University of Oregon.
