1987, By. "Computer Arts - The History of Photoshop." Computer Arts - Home. Web. 06 Dec. 2010. .

This article is was good to help me understand the transition of calculating computers used for art and computers design for art used to create it. With the advancement of hardware, the tech artists were born. Finally an artist who was skilled in visual art could use the computer as a digital canvas.

Andersen, Geoff. The Telescope: Its History, Technology, and Future. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2007. Print.

The Telescope proves my point that the telescope was first and foremost a scientific instrument. The beautiful pictures taken by the hubble and some land based telescopes are a side effect of the science conducted by astronomers. But still, those images still retain their importance as art pieces to the public.

Brown, Paul. White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2008. Print.

This book tells the story of some of the first art pieces made by computers in the early 1960's to the 1980's. I haven't been able to get my hands on this book yet but I suspect that it will be interesting to understand the method and motive of the first people to use a calculating machine as a means for art.

Crompton, Samuel Willard. The Printing Press: Transforming Power of Technology. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004. Print.

The printing press is a good source on the early technology and uses for the printing press. After the printing press was invented a wealth of knowledge could finally get out to more people, sparking a revolution in thought: the Renaissance. The printing press, technology originally intended to spread thought created a time of discovery and curiosity. It lead to some of the greatest art in human history, and more directly lead to the process of modern printing, the best way to have a physical form of a visual based art made on a computer.

Kerrod, Robin, and Carole Stott. Hubble: the Mirror on the Universe. Richmond Hill, Ont.: Firefly, 2007. Print.

This book has been great in helping prove my point that astronomy images taken by telescopes can be art. Telescopes typically built for the scientific value of seeing small odjects as though they were close, but once hubble came into the picture astronomy became art in some ways.This book is filled with a few hundred exposures of objects in space, and I think it's art. Pitures like the ones in this book move me just as much or more than any painting I've viewed.

Veasey, Nick. X-ray: See through the World around You. New York: Viking Studio, 2008. Print.

The x-ray was first created as a medical device. To this day the x-ray has very practical uses in the world, still mostly medical. This book is a great example of technology being used directly to make art. The ghostly images in this book art truly stunning and chilling. This adds to my overall point that scientific equipment, in the hands of an artist, can create new and wonderful art.