The term “early computer art” usually evokes abstract plotter drawings based on algorithms by scientists and mathematicians like Herbert W. Franke or Frieder Nake as well as the artists Manfred Mohr and Vera Molnár. Although computer-generated figurative imagery has been created in the 1960s and 1970s, the image editing tools emerging during the 1980s finally allowed significantly new possibilities for artists. Joan Truckenbrod was one of the first to devote her artistic practice to the subject of self-portraiture in computer art. To create her multilayered collaged works, she combined the full repertoire of the technological possibilities of her time to link the human and the machine.