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74-413: On the title page of the magazine Computers and Automation , January 1963, Edmund Berkeley published a picture by Efraim Arazi from 1962, coining for it the term "computer art." This picture inspired him to initiate the first Computer Art Contest in 1963. The annual contest was a key point in the development of computer art up to the year 1973. The precursor of computer art dates back to 1956–1958, with

148-406: A John Carpenter -directed segment of the horror film Body Bags (1993), and in the drama Heavy (1995). Blondie reunited in the late 1990s, releasing No Exit (1999), followed by The Curse of Blondie (2003). Harry continued to appear in independent films throughout the 2000s, including Deuces Wild (2002), My Life Without Me (2003) and Elegy (2008). With Blondie, she released

222-590: A 16-mm camera was later added to the SC-4020 printer. In the 1970s, the dot matrix printer (which uses a print head hitting an ink ribbon somewhat like a typewriter ) was used to reproduce varied fonts and arbitrary graphics. The first animations were created by plotting all still frames sequentially on a stack of paper, with motion transfer to 16-mm film for projection. During the 1970s and 1980s, dot matrix printers were used to produce most visual output while microfilm plotters were used for most early animation. In 1976,

296-485: A competition, and an international journal (bit international) until 1973. Katherine Nash and Richard Williams published Computer Program for Artists: ART 1 in 1970. Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) designed the first Graphical User Interface (GUI) in the 1970s. The first Macintosh computer was released in 1984; since then the GUI became popular. Many graphic designers quickly accepted its capacity as

370-687: A cover of " Summertime Blues " from the soundtrack to the film That Night in Australia. Her fourth solo album, Debravation , was released in July 1993. The album peaked at #24 in the UK but was less successful in the US. The album's first single was " I Can See Clearly ", which peaked at No.   23 in the UK and No.   2 on the US dance charts. This was followed by " Strike Me Pink " in September. Controversy surrounded

444-543: A creative tool. Andy Warhol created digital art using an Amiga when the computer was publicly introduced at the Lincoln Center , New York in July 1985. An image of Debbie Harry was captured in monochrome from a video camera and digitized into a graphics program called ProPaint. Warhol manipulated the image adding colour by using flood fills. Formerly, technology restricted output and print results. Early machines used pen-and-ink plotters to produce basic hard copy. In

518-406: A developer of tools for cable, satellite, and terrestrial television operators to manage compressed digital video . At the time of his death, Arazi was chairman of Seerun Ltd. On the title page of the magazine Computers and Automation , January 1963, Edmund Berkeley published a picture by Efraim Arazi from 1962, coining for it the term "computer art." This picture inspired him to initiate

592-462: A downloadable version was released via her official website. In 2007, Harry delineated the different personae (Blondie the band, her role in the band, and Deborah Harry the singer) to an interviewer who asked why she played only solo music on the 2007 True Colors World Tour with Cyndi Lauper : "I've put together a new trio with no Blondie members in it. I really want to make a clear definition between Debbie's solo projects and Blondie, and I hope that

666-762: A duet with actor Robert Jacks titled "Der Einziger Weg (The Only Way)", a theme for the horror film Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), which was recorded in German and in English. Harry also served as a vocalist in Talking Heads side project the Heads' 1996 release No Talking, Just Head , followed by the Jazz Passengers' Individually Twisted (1997). The same year, she collaborated with Jazz Passengers' Bill Ware in his side project Groove Thing, singing lead vocals on

740-470: A group" button campaign by the band in 1979. The band's success continued with the release of the platinum-selling Eat to the Beat album (UK No.   1 , US No.   17 ) in September. Autoamerican (UK No.   3 , US No.   7 ) was released in 1980. Blondie had further No.   1 hits with " Call Me " ( American Gigolo soundtrack ) (US and UK No.   1 ), " Atomic " ( Eat to

814-625: A guest appearance with Arcade Fire at the Coachella , Harry would appear again, with Blondie, at Coachella in 2023. In May 2014, Blondie released their tenth studio album Ghosts of Download . In 2015, Blondie members Debbie Harry and Chris Stein made a guest appearance alongside The Gregory Brothers in an episode of Songify the News , and they collaborated again to parody the United States presidential election debates, 2016. In March 2015, Harry held

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888-470: A leading role in David Cronenberg 's body horror film Videodrome (1983), playing the sadomasochistic lover of a television producer who uncovers an underground video output of snuff films . Harry received rave reviews for her performance in the film. Critic Howard Hampton noted in a retrospective that Harry "carries herself with the wry, burned-out, but still titillated instincts of a voyager buying

962-519: A live double CD never came to fruition. However, covers of the Rolling Stones ' " Wild Horses " and David Oliver 's " Love TKO " exist as bootlegs. In early 1994, Harry took the Debravation tour to the US. In the UK, Harry's long tenure with Chrysalis Records also came to an end after Debravation 's lackluster sales, but the label released all of Blondie's albums and Harry's KooKoo album (for

1036-490: A neo-noir thriller in which she portrayed a bartender. In 1997, Blondie began working together again for the first time in 15 years. The four original members (Harry, Stein, Clem Burke and Jimmy Destri ) began sessions for what would become Blondie's seventh studio album, No Exit (1999). The lead single from the album, " Maria ", debuted at No.   1 in the UK, giving Blondie their sixth UK No.   1 hit. "Maria" also reached No.   1 in 14 countries,

1110-448: A number of new tracks surfaced on Harry's Myspace page, including "Charm Alarm", "Deep End", "Love with a Vengeance", "School for Scandal", and "Necessary Evil", as well as duets she recorded with Miss Guy (of Toilet Böys fame), "God Save New York" and "New York Groove". A streaming version of the lead single, " Two Times Blue ", was added to Harry's Myspace page in May 2007. On June 6, 2007,

1184-583: A one-way ticket for the outer limits. A vivid, smallish part can either anchor or undo a risky, conceptually spiky film like David Cronenberg's viscerally deranged phantasia: Harry's presence grounds it in acute, self-aware reality." A new single, "Feel The Spin" (taken from the film Krush Groove ), was released as a limited 12" single in 1985, which peaked at No.   5 on the Billboard Dance Chart. In 1986, Harry released her second solo album, called Rockbird , which peaked at No.   97 in

1258-476: A press release to clarify that her name was not "Debbie Blondie" or "Debbie Harry" but rather Deborah Harry, though Harry later described her character in the band as being named "Blondie", as in this quote from the No Exit tour book: Hi, it's Deb. You know, when I woke up this morning I had a realization about myself. I was always Blondie. People always called me Blondie, ever since I was a little kid. What I realized

1332-541: A rehabilitation clinic and no longer used drugs. Harry is godmother to Stein's two daughters. In 2014, Harry revealed that she had several relationships with women in her youth. In her 2019 memoir, Face It: A Memoir , Harry describes having been raped at knifepoint during a burglary of the home she shared with Stein. She also wrote that during the early 1970s, the serial killer Ted Bundy lured her into his car in New York City, but she escaped. Harry's description of

1406-544: A residency of several weeks at the Café Carlyle in New York. Blondie's eleventh studio album, Pollinator , was released in May 2017, and debuted at No.   4 in the UK. In October 2019, Harry released a memoir, Face It , through Dey Street Books . In 2020, Harry cameoed on the third episode of the romantic comedy web television series High Fidelity . In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Harry at number 168 on its list of

1480-462: A small series of four acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas portraits of the star in different colors, as well as Polaroids and a small number of rare silver gelatin prints from the shoot. Stein was also present that day to capture Warhol photographing Harry in a series of his own photographs, exhibited in 2013 in London. Her collaboration and friendship with Warhol continued and she was his first guest on

1554-602: Is actual art. Efraim Arazi Efraim R. "Efi" Arazi ( Hebrew : אפי ארזי ) (14 April 1937 – 14 April 2013) was an Israeli technology pioneer and businessman. Arazi enrolled as a cadet to study electronics in the Israel Defense Forces at the Air Force Technological Academy , He earned an engineering degree in the 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . (he

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1628-645: Is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie . Four of her songs with the band reached No.   1 on the US charts between 1979 and 1981. Born in Miami, Florida, Harry was adopted as an infant and raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey . After college she worked various jobs—as a dancer, a Playboy Bunny , and a secretary (including at the BBC in New York)—before her breakthrough in

1702-453: Is an artwork painted by a robot. Raymond Auger's Painting Machine, made in 1962, was one of the first robotic painters as was AARON , an artificial intelligence /artist developed by Harold Cohen beginning in the late 1960s. Joseph Nechvatal began making large computer-robotic paintings in 1986. Artist Ken Goldberg created an 11' x 11' painting machine in 1992 and German artist Matthias Groebel also built his own robotic painting machine in

1776-618: Is considered the first rap song to chart at number one in the United States. Harry released her debut solo studio album, KooKoo , in 1981. During a Blondie hiatus, she embarked on an acting career, appearing in lead roles in the neo-noir Union City (1980) and in David Cronenberg 's body horror film Videodrome (1983). She released her second solo studio album, 1986's Rockbird , and starred in John Waters 's cult dance film Hairspray (1988). She released two more solo albums between then and 1993, before returning to film with roles in

1850-421: Is of Scottish ancestry and her biological parents' surnames were Trimble and Mackenzie. Harry learned of her adoption at four years old. At first, she decided against locating her birth parents, but nonetheless, in the late 1980s, located her birth mother, a concert pianist, who chose not to establish a relationship with Harry. In her memoir, she recalls being a tomboy, spending much of her childhood playing in

1924-569: Is played by Jean-Michel Basquiat in the video. "Rapture" became the first rap-oriented song to reach No.   1 in the US Billboard charts. Grandmaster Flash said Harry "opened up so many doors for hip hop" by mentioning him in Rapture. Harry was immortalized by Andy Warhol in 1980, who produced a number of artworks of her image from a single photoshoot at the Factory . The artist created

1998-515: Is that at some point I became Dirty Harry . I couldn't be Blondie anymore, so I became Dirty Harry. Harry began her solo career with the album KooKoo (1981). Produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of Chic , the album peaked at No.   25 in the US and No.   6 in the UK; and was later certified gold in the US and silver in the UK. The album's cover art was controversial, showing Harry apparently with skewers through her face, and many stores refused to stock it. " Backfired ",

2072-599: The Rock and Rule animated film, was the fourth single released from the album in June 1990 to coincide with a UK tour (her second in six months). The track " Kiss It Better " was also a Top 15 Modern Rock single in the US. Harry also appeared in film during this time, with a supporting part in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990). From 1989 to 1991, Harry toured extensively across

2146-510: The inkjet printer was invented with the increase in the use of personal computers. The inkjet printer is now the cheapest and most versatile option for everyday digital color output. Raster Image Processing (RIP) is typically built into the printer or supplied as a software package for the computer; it is required to achieve the highest quality output. Basic inkjet devices do not feature RIP. Instead, they rely on graphic software to rasterize images. The laser printer , though more expensive than

2220-653: The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. Harry collaborated with the Dandy Warhols and NALA on the track "IWNSLY", released in July 2023. She also contributed vocals to the track "I Will Never Stop Loving You", which was released as a single and featured on the 2024 Dandy Warhols album Rockmaker . Harry was in a relationship with the Blondie guitarist Chris Stein . The pair split up in 1987, but they remained friends. In 2011, Harry said that she and Stein were both drug users during their relationship, and that they had spent time in

2294-447: The Beat album) (UK No.   1 ), " The Tide Is High " (US and UK No.   1 ), and " Rapture " (US No.   1 ). During this time, both Harry and Stein befriended graffiti artist Fab Five Freddy , who introduced them to the emerging hip-hop scene in the Bronx. Freddy is mentioned in "Rapture". Through Fab Five Freddy they were also able to connect with Grandmaster Flash who

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2368-499: The MTV show Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes . The first episode opened with Harry announcing the theme: "Sex, Vegetables, Brothers and Sisters". Harry said of her relationship with Warhol, "I think the best thing [Andy Warhol] taught me was always to be open to new things, new music, new style, new bands, new technology and just go with it. Never get mired in the past and always accept new things whatever age you are." In 1981, Harry issued

2442-449: The Sky " was featured on the soundtrack to the 1998 film Three Businessmen , and was available on her website to download. Harry sings on two tracks on Andrea Griminelli's Cinema Italiano project: "You'll Come to Me" (inspired by Amarcord ' s main theme) and "When Love Comes By" (from Il Postino ), as well as on a tribute album reinterpreting the music of Harold Arlen , on which she sings

2516-465: The UK album chart and earned a gold disc. The album also included her duet with Iggy Pop of the Cole Porter song " Well, Did You Evah! " from the 1990 Red Hot + Blue AIDS charity album. In 1992, Harry collaborated with German post-punk band Die Haut on the track "Don't Cross My Mind" and released the song " Prelude to a Kiss " on the soundtrack to the film of the same name . She also released

2590-399: The UK and was the second highest-selling single of 1979. In June 1979, Blondie was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone . Harry's persona, combining cool sexuality with streetwise style, became so closely associated with the group's name that many came to believe "Blondie" was the singer's name. The difference between the individual Harry and the band Blondie was emphasized by a "Blondie is

2664-585: The UK with Stein, guitarist Peter Min, bassist Greta Brinkman, and drummer James Murphy. The set list of the Debravation Tour featured an offbeat selection of Harry material including the previously unreleased track "Close Your Eyes" (from 1989) and "Ordinary Bummer" (from the Stein-produced Iggy Pop album Zombie Birdhouse , a track that, under the moniker Adolph's Dog, Blondie covered in 1997). Tentative plans to record these shows and release them as

2738-511: The US Dance Charts and was released with several remixes. Harry also recorded another track with SAW during the same sessions, "Mind Over Matter", which was never officially released. In 1987, Harry starred opposite Alec Baldwin in the comedy mystery film Forever, Lulu , playing the title character. "Liar, Liar" was recorded by Harry for the soundtrack album Married to the Mob in 1988 and

2812-571: The US, and No.   31 in the UK (where it has been certified gold for 100,000 sales by the BPI). The single " French Kissin' in the USA " gave Harry her only UK solo top 10 hit ( No.   8 ) and became a moderate US hit ( No.   57 ). Other singles released from the album were " Free to Fall " and " In Love with Love ", with the latter completely re-recorded in London with hit British producers Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW). The track hit No.   1 on

2886-427: The US. In the same year (1981) Harry appeared in the movie " Downtown 81 " where Jean-Michel Basquiat played the leading role. Harry plays a bag lady who turns into a princess when Basquiat kisses her. After a year-long hiatus, Blondie regrouped and released their sixth studio album, The Hunter (1982). The album was not as successful as their previous works, and a world tour was cut short due to slow ticket sales. It

2960-496: The United Kingdom. Their second album, Plastic Letters , garnered some success outside the United States, but their third album, Parallel Lines (1978), was a worldwide hit and catapulted the group to international success. It included the global hit single " Heart of Glass ". Riding the crest of disco's domination, the track made No.   1 in the US and sold nearly two million copies. It also reached No.   1 in

3034-503: The album The Curse of Blondie (2003). In 2006, Harry started work in New York City on her fifth solo album, Necessary Evil (released in 2007). Working with production duo Super Buddha (who produced the remix of Blondie's " In the Flesh " for the 2005 Sound and Vision compilation), the first music to surface in was a hip-hop track titled "Dirty and Deep" in which she spoke out against rapper Lil' Kim 's incarceration. Throughout 2006,

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3108-602: The album. She also started a 22-date US tour on November 8, lasting until December 9, playing small venues and clubs across the country. On January 18, 2008, an official music video for " If I Had You " was released. Harry contributed to Fall Out Boy 's 2008 album Folie à Deux , singing on the chorus of the album's closer "West Coast Smoker". In 2010, Harry began a series of recordings (featuring solo songs and duets with Nick Cave and others) for The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project . Blondie released their ninth studio album, Panic of Girls , in 2011. In 2014, Harry made

3182-455: The artwork style down into statistics about visual features . The target photograph is subsequently modified to match those statistics. Notable applications include Prisma , Facebook Caffe2Go style transfer, MIT's Nightmare Machine , and DeepArt . With the rise of AI-image generators such as DALL-E 2 , Discord , Mid journey , and others, there is area of AI generated art. There is much controversy and debate over whether AI generated art

3256-674: The audience can appreciate that and also appreciate this other material." Harry's fifth solo album, Necessary Evil (2007), was released after she completed the True Colors World Tour. The first single, "Two Times Blue", peaked at No.   5 on the US Dance Club Play chart. The album peaked at No.   86 in the UK and No.   37 in the US Billboard Top Independent Albums chart. Harry performed "Two Times Blue" on various talk shows to promote

3330-500: The band added guitarist Chris Stein , who became her boyfriend. In her memoir, Face It , Harry describes having been raped at knifepoint during a burglary of the home she shared with Stein. In 1974 Harry and Stein left the Stilettos (along with the band's bassist and drummer) and formed Angel and the Snake with Tish Bellomo and Snooky Bellomo. Shortly thereafter, they changed the name of

3404-458: The band to Blondie , named after the catcall men often directed at Harry after she bleached her hair blonde . The band quickly became regulars at Max's Kansas City and CBGB in New York City. With her beauty, daring choice of clothing, and two-tone bleached-blonde hair, Harry quickly became a punk icon. Blondie released their self-titled debut album in 1976; it peaked at No.   14 in Australia and (later, in 1979) No.   75 in

3478-600: The club hit "Command and Obey". Another Jazz Passengers collaboration, " The City in the Sea ", appeared on the Edgar Allan Poe tribute album Closed on Account of Rabies (1997). In film, Harry co-starred with Pruitt Taylor Vince and Liv Tyler in James Mangold 's directorial debut Heavy (1995), playing a misanthropic waitress at an upstate New York restaurant. The following year, she filmed Mangold's Cop Land (1997),

3552-478: The early 1960s, the Stromberg Carlson SC-4020 microfilm printer was used at Bell Telephone Laboratories as a plotter to produce digital computer art and animation on 35-mm microfilm. Still images were drawn on the face plate of the cathode ray tube and automatically photographed. A series of still images were drawn to create a computer-animated movie, early on a roll of 35-mm film and then on 16-mm film as

3626-423: The early 1990s. Non-photorealistic rendering (using computers to automatically transform images into stylized art) has been a subject of research since the 1990s. Around 2015, neural style transfer using convolutional neural networks to transfer the style of an artwork onto a photograph or other target image became feasible. One method of style transfer involves using a framework such as VGG or ResNet to break

3700-488: The emerging computing technology for use as a creative tool. In the summer of 1962, A. Michael Noll programmed a digital computer at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey to generate visual patterns solely for artistic purposes. His later computer-generated patterns simulated paintings by Piet Mondrian and Bridget Riley and became classics. Noll also used the patterns to investigate aesthetic preferences in

3774-472: The first Computer Art Contest in 1963. The annual contest was a key point in the development of computer art up to the year 1973. The Efi Arazi School of Computer Science is part of IDC (Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya) , Israel's first private university. The school was founded in 1996, and named after Efi Arazi in 2003. Debbie Harry Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble ; July 1, 1945)

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3848-888: The first digital artists, Nam June Paik , Frieder Nake, Leslie Mezei, Georg Nees, A. Michael Noll, John Whitney , and Charles Csuri . One year later, the Computer Arts Society was founded, also in London. At the time of the opening of Cybernetic Serendipity, in August 1968, a symposium was held in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, under the title "Computers and visual research". It took up the European artists movement of New Tendencies that had led to three exhibitions (in 1961, 63, and 65) in Zagreb of concrete, kinetic, and constructive art as well as op art and conceptual art. New Tendencies changed its name to "Tendencies" and continued with more symposia, exhibitions,

3922-586: The first single from the album, had a video directed by H.R. Giger (who also created the album's front cover featuring Harry's face with metal skewers through it). The single reached No.   43 on the Billboard Hot 100 , No.   29 on the Hot Dance Club Songs , and No.   32 on the UK Singles Chart. " The Jam Was Moving " was lifted as the second single and peaked at No. 82 in

3996-465: The first time on CD) as remastered editions with bonus tracks. In the mid 1990s, Harry worked as a guest vocalist on several projects: She joined the avant-garde jazz ensemble the Jazz Passengers in 1994, appearing on their album In Love (1994). Harry also reunited with Blondie keyboardist Jimmy Destri for a cover of Otis Blackwell 's "Don't Be Cruel" for the 1995 album Brace Yourself! A Tribute to Otis Blackwell . During this period, she also recorded

4070-495: The generation of what is probably the first image of a human being on a computer screen, a ( George Petty -inspired) pin-up girl at a SAGE air defense installation. Desmond Paul Henry created his first electromechanical Henry Drawing Machine in 1961, using an adapted analogue Bombsight Computer. His drawing machine-generated artwork was shown at the Reid Gallery in London in 1962 after his traditional, non-machine artwork won him

4144-447: The group's ninth studio album, Panic of Girls , in 2011, followed by Ghosts of Download (2014). The band's eleventh studio album, 2017's Pollinator , charted at number 4 in the United Kingdom. Harry was born Angela Trimble on July 1, 1945, in Miami, Florida. At the age of three months, she was adopted by Catherine (née Peters) and Richard Harry, gift shop proprietors in Hawthorne, New Jersey , and renamed Deborah Ann Harry. She

4218-603: The inkjet, is another affordable output device available today. Adobe Systems , founded in 1982, developed the PostScript language and digital fonts, making drawing, painting, and image manipulation software popular. Adobe Illustrator , a vector drawing program based on the Bézier curve introduced in 1987 and Adobe Photoshop , written by brothers Thomas and John Knoll in 1990 were developed for use on MacIntosh computers, and compiled for DOS/Windows platforms by 1993. A robot painting

4292-458: The latter track's promotional video, which featured a man drowning in a water tank, resulting in its being banned. US editions of the album feature two additional tracks recorded with prerecorded music by R.E.M. : "Tear Drops" and a cover of Skeeter Davis 's 1961 hit " My Last Date (with You) ". Also in 1993, Harry had a supporting role in a John Carpenter -directed segment of the anthology horror film Body Bags . In November 1993, Harry toured

4366-626: The mid-1960s. The two early exhibitions of computer art were held in 1965: Generative Computergrafik, February 1965, at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, Germany, and Computer-Generated Pictures, April 1965, at the Howard Wise Gallery in New York. The Stuttgart exhibit featured work by Georg Nees ; the New York exhibit featured works by Bela Julesz and A. Michael Noll and was reviewed as art by The New York Times . A third exhibition

4440-407: The music industry. She co-formed Blondie in 1974 in New York City. The band released its eponymous debut studio album in 1976 and released three more studio albums between then and 1979, including Parallel Lines , which spawned six singles, including " Heart of Glass ". Their fifth studio album, Autoamerican (1980), produced hits including a cover of " The Tide Is High ", and " Rapture ", which

4514-436: The privilege of a one-man exhibition there. It was artist L.S.Lowry who encouraged Henry to include examples of his machine-generated art in the Reid Gallery exhibition. . By the mid-1960s, most individuals involved in the creation of computer art were in fact engineers and scientists because they had access to the only computing resources available at university scientific research labs. Many artists tentatively began to explore

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4588-562: The title track " Stormy Weather ". In May 2002, she accompanied the Jazz Passengers and the BBC Concert Orchestra in a performance of her jazz material at the Barbican Centre in London. In 2003, she was featured vocalist on the song "Uncontrollable Love" by DJ duo Blow-Up. She also sang on the version of " Waltzing Matilda " recorded by Dan Zanes and Friends , released on the 2003 album House Party . The same year, Blondie released

4662-468: The top 10 on the US Dance Charts, and Top 20 on the US Adult Top 40 Charts. No Exit debuted at No.   3 in the UK and No.   17 in the US. Harry appears on the 2001 Bill Ware album Vibes 4 singing the track "Me and You" as well as on former Police guitarist Andy Summers 's album Peggy's Blue Skylight on the track "Weird Nightmare". A techno cover of Stan Jones ' " Ghost Riders in

4736-671: The white vehicle stripped on the inside and missing the passenger door handle matched the 1968 VW Bundy was driving, but authorities believed him to be in Florida at the time. Ann Rule , author of the Bundy biography The Stranger Beside Me , commented that erroneous claims of Bundy abductions are fairly common. As of 2019, Harry lives in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and in Middletown Township, New Jersey with her four dogs. In

4810-463: The woods adjacent to her home. Harry attended Hawthorne High School , where she was voted "Best Looking", graduating in 1963. She graduated from Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey , with an Associate of Arts degree in 1965. Before beginning her singing career, she moved to New York City in the late 1960s, and worked there as a secretary at BBC Radio 's office for one year. Later, she

4884-470: The world with former Blondie guitarist Chris Stein, Underworld 's Karl Hyde , and future Blondie bassist Leigh Foxx. In July 1991 she played Wembley Stadium, supporting INXS . In 1991, Chrysalis released a new "best of" compilation in Europe entitled The Complete Picture: The Very Best of Deborah Harry and Blondie , containing hits with Blondie as well as her solo hits. The collection reached No.   3 in

4958-508: Was a hit in Europe and Australia and on the US Modern Rock Charts. The success of the single propelled the album to No.   12 on the UK chart, where it earned a silver disc. However, with little promotion from her record company in the US, it peaked at No.   123 . She followed this up with the ballad " Brite Side " and the club hit " Sweet and Low ". " Maybe for Sure ", a reworked version of "Angel's Song" she'd recorded for

5032-518: Was a waitress at Max's Kansas City , a go-go dancer in a discothèque in Union City, New Jersey , and a Playboy Bunny . In the late 1960s, Harry began her musical career as a backing singer for the folk rock group The Wind in the Willows , which released an eponymous album in 1968 on Capitol Records . In 1973, Harry joined The Stilettos with Elda Gentile and Amanda Jones. Shortly thereafter,

5106-449: Was accepted to MIT via the "extraordinary cases" as he did not have a matriculation certificate). Arazi began his career in the United States. He returned to Israel in June 1967. In 1968 he founded and headed Scitex Corporation (renamed Scailex Corporation in 2005), an Israel-based multi-national company that specialized in developing and manufacturing hardware and software for the graphics design, printing, and publishing markets. It

5180-503: Was an ardent fan, emulating Harry's hairstyle and founding the West Coast Blondie Fan Club, before becoming friends with the band in New York. After Blondie split up in 1982, Harry's solo output slowed down as she cared for ailing partner Chris Stein. She released the single "Rush Rush" in 1983 (produced by Giorgio Moroder and taken from the film Scarface ), but it was commercially unsuccessful. The same year, Harry had

5254-469: Was around this time that Stein also fell seriously ill with the rare autoimmune disease pemphigus . His illness, along with declining record sales and internal struggles, caused the band to split up. In June 1982, Harry contributed backing vocals to The Gun Club's second album Miami , being credited as 'D.H. Lawrence Jr' while Chris Stein also produced the record and is credited as 'bongos' and 'cover photos/design'. The Gun Club's singer Jeffrey Lee Pierce

5328-400: Was produced by Mike Chapman. It was their first collaboration since the 1982 Blondie album The Hunter . The same year, Harry starred as Velma Von Tussle in John Waters 's satirical dance film Hairspray . Her next solo venture was the album Def, Dumb and Blonde in 1989. At this point Harry reverted from "Debbie" to "Deborah" as her professional name. The first single " I Want That Man "

5402-841: Was put up in November 1965 at Galerie Wendelin Niedlich in Stuttgart, Germany, showing works by Frieder Nake and Georg Nees. Analogue computer art by Maughan Mason along with digital computer art by Noll were exhibited at the AFIPS Fall Joint Computer Conference in Las Vegas toward the end of 1965. In 1968, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London hosted one of the most influential early exhibitions of computer art called Cybernetic Serendipity . The exhibition, curated by Jasia Reichardt , included many of those often regarded as

5476-503: Was the first Israeli high-tech firm, and at its peak employed 4,000 people. Arazi stepped down as CEO and president of Scitex on 1 June 1988, but continued to serve as chairman of the board of directors of the company (a position to which he had been appointed on 1 May 1985) until 18 January 1989, when Robert Maxwell 's Mirror Group acquired a 27% stake in the company and Maxwell was appointed chairman. In 1988 Arazi founded EFI - Electronics for Imaging . He later became CEO of iMedia,

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