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Samia Halaby: Coding Abstraction in the 1980s

Samia Halaby turned the computer into a painting tool. On her Amiga in the mid-1980s, she wrote her own code to produce Kinetic Computer Paintings—abstractions that moved across the screen like music. Geometry, rhythm, and improvisation became her raw materials, with algorithms acting as collaborators.

At the same time, her canvases were built on a similar logic of invention—layering curves, triangles, and color fields as if composing an abstract language. For Halaby, the act of making was both disciplined and spontaneous: a choreography of shapes, sounds, and systems.

Finding new ways for abstraction to breathe, whether in paint, code, or motion

Images: @samiahalaby at her Amiga, early screen-based works, and her abstract painting process images from @sfeirsemlergallery and @tate

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