REPRESENTED IN MUSEUMS

ART EXHIBITIONS

ART EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

MIT Co-Op at Philco Radio Research, inventions for radar antennas; Dumont Television, early color television systems; RCA-Astro, in group that designed TV for Ranger satellite that took first pictures of the moon before impacting; Bell Labs, Holmdel, worked in group designing testing systems for testing dedicated special service circuits; Bellcore, worked in group on ISDN; presently retired from his hobby of earning money, and now full time at his profession: writer/artist, with support from his lawyer wife, Diana E. Mueller.

BOOKS WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED

CHAPTERS WRITTEN IN BOOKS

  1. 1972 Approaches to Human Communication, ed. by Budd & Ruben, Chapter 2, Art: An Approach to Human Communication.
  2. 1979 Beyond Media, ed. by Budd & Ruben, Chapter XV, The Private Turning Public: The Visual Arts as Mass Communications

FICTION

The titles of some of his unpublished novels are: Of Delicate Poison; The Maximum Man; Dr. Frank Stone; Little Italian Adventure; Abracadabra; Terror Love; Shadows on the Nile; The Phosphor-Dot Gallery. The novel Abracadabra was extensively computer-manipulated and transformed into an experimental novel entitled Abracadabra Cadaver altering each chapter, for example, by introducing pithy proverbs appropriate the action; by putting all dialog in footnotes; by changing everything to Pig Latin; by altering the spelling of important words; all types of manipulation to be appropriate to the action taking place.

ARTICLES WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED

  1. 1968 Saturday Review of Literature, May 4, The Science of Art
    See The Science of Art of which this is a brief summary.
  2. 1972 Art in America, May-June, The Idols of Computer Art
    A brief criteria of the limitations of computer art, very dated but interesting as a first attempt to explore the aesthetics of computer art.
  3. 1976 Creative Computing, Sept-Oct,Electric Symbols
    A general discussion of how symbols will become electrified.
  4. 1978 Leonardo, Winter,Artist and Computer
    A note on how computer art (then) when derived from math creates the order of a visual kaleidoscopic function.
  5. 1978 Art in America, May-June, Idols of Computer Art (Reprint of the above)
  6. 1979 Cognoscitore di Stampe (Italy), Jan-Feb, Woodcut as Social Action
    A short article describing the artist's anti-war social woodcuts and how they evolved during the Vietnam war.
  7. 1983 Would an Intelligent Computer have a Right to Life?
    A dialogue with Erik T. Mueller, the writer's son who has his doctorate in computer science from UCLA, about the life possibilities for an artificial intelligence.
  8. 1983 Creative Computing, Jan, When is Computer Art Art?
    A critique of the then computer art.
  9. 1988 Leonardo, Mnemesthetics, Vol. 21, No. 2
    A radical new theory of art suggesting that art builds, freezes and revivifies significant consciousness events.
  10. 1990 Leonardo, Leonardo Paradox, Vol. 23, No. 4,
    A general discussion of the paradoxes inherent in computerizing intelligence.
  11. 1991 Leonardo, Schemas: The Evolution of a Minimal Visual Art Form, Vol. 24, No. 3
    A discussion of how the artist developed a minimal visual art form inspired by the conflux of Picasso's abstract drawings for the Balzac story Unknown Masterpiece and the curves in the book of mathematical functions by Janke & Emde.
  12. 1996 Leonardo, Experiment in Art, Vol. 28, No. 1. Similar to the above.
  13. 1997 Leonardo, Visic: A True Color Music Forthcoming in 1997

    MISCELLANEOUS

    1. 1948 US Patent 2,449,558 Cathode Ray Tube (With H. H. Lanier)
    2. 1954, June, Cover Art: Science & Technology
    3. 1968, May 4, Cover Art: Saturday Review of Literature
    4. 1974 US Patent 3,846,826 Direct Television Drawing & Image Manipulation System
    5. 1974 Six Videographic Designs (with Text) for JVC Devlin Productions, NYC.
    6. 1985 The Abstractions of Robert Mueller, Video by Erik T. Mueller
    7. 1986 Bellcore Invention Disclosures for Graphic Computer Input Devices
    8. 1990 Trip to Russia, USA-USSR Artists' Exchange, sponsored by TAWA, Trenton, NJ
    9. 1995 Video, Robert Mueller, by Margaret Schlinski, local public-access channel

    ART ILLUSTRATIONS*

    *Note: these .gifs are provided as B&W scans, at this time.