Anna Bella Geiger

Anna Bella Geiger (1933, Rio de Janeiro) produced Self-Portrait (1969) during a research trip to London: ‘I met some people who were starting to experiment with computers and who invited me to take part in this research, which was an untapped field. It was a new thing, very different to making art, because they were using a computer originally programmed for the purpose of working to be used as a possible medium for artists. I didn’t continue working with them because I lived in Rio de Janeiro and had a family and four children. . . People’s idea and perception of art was changing at the time, and I was feeling the need to experiment with previously unknown media such as… Super 8 film, for instance.’