Background
Giorgini, Aldo was born on March 15, 1934 in Voghera, Italy. Son of Adelmo and Pierina (Salvadeo) Giorgini.
Giorgini, Aldo was born on March 15, 1934 in Voghera, Italy. Son of Adelmo and Pierina (Salvadeo) Giorgini.
Doctor of Engineering, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, Colorado State University, 1966. Association professor hydraulics Politecnico di Torino, 1959-1961.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization researcher CISE, Segrate, Italy, 1961-1962. Fellow National Center for AtmosphericResearch, Boulder, Colorado, 1966-1967. Assistant professor School Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1967-1970, associate professor, since 1970.
Board of directors Lafayette Art Center, 1976-1979. Opera De Lafayette, 1981.
He is the father of music producer Mass Giorgini. He was a high school classmate of fashion designer Valentino, who was also a student of design of Ernestina Salvadeo, Giorgini's maternal aunt. Formally trained by Italian futurist painter-sculptor Ambrogio Casati, Giorgini stayed on with his mentor as an apprentice, and assisted in the restoration of classic works by old masters damaged during the Second World War.
Simultaneously attending university coursework outside of his work in the arts, Giorgini earned a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino before travelling to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship. He moved to Lafayette, Indiana, on 22 December 1968. He regularly included aesthetics lectures in his engineering courses, saying that "to be technical and scientific does not preclude a concern for the beauty and art of image and form.
Architecture and engineering both occupy the same continuum: mathematics can be beautiful, and shapes can be useful."
Once established in this new position, Giorgini resumed his artistic work, combining his technical expertise with computers from his engineering training with his background in the visual arts, thereby becoming one of the first computer artists. His pioneering computer art was generated on the Purdue University mainframe computer (CDC) and printed onto large Mylar sheets using Calcomp printers. Giorgini would then hand-ink the works of art to complete the works he called examples of "computer-aided art".
Aldo Giorgini died in Indianapolis, in October 1994, of brain cancer.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Married Elena Belotti, June 21, 1964 (deceased. Children: Massimiliano, Flaviano.