Here I portrayed Archimedes’ ghost on the screen of the Manchester Baby computer. This machine was built in 1948 and became the first stored-program computer in the world. It’s small screen functioned as a computer memory. The authors of the Baby tested the memory creating digital images on the screen which resembled modern simple pixel art. The Baby wasn’t used for picture creation as it was considered an improper way of using the resources at that time. But the 21st century scientists built a replica of the computer and proved that the machine could have been programmed to show both static (as in the 1st second of my work) and sliding pictures (as in 2-5 seconds of my work). The rest of my animation represents a glitch in the system since it is unlikely to have programmed the computer for such a complex animation.
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