Recognizing its unique power to integrate different disciplines, Spalter created an independent major that culminated in a multimedia novel.
Finding a lack of teaching aids she wrote the textbook, “The Computer in the Visual Arts.” [4] James Faure Walker, artist, author and founder of the British magazine ArtScribe, describes the book, on its jacket, as: “...the first comprehensive work to combine technical and theoretical aspects of the emerging field of computer art and design.” Alvy Ray Smith was an advisor.
"[14] As an educator and artist in this emerging field, Spalter has served on editorial boards of publications such as CG Educational Materials Source (CGEMS),[15] and presented in lectures, including the inaugural series for the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing.
She draws on her own travels and digital photographic and video database to create both traditional works and new media still and moving pieces.
They now have the world’s largest private collection of early works in this genre and have lent pieces to the MoMA in New York [22] as well as museums internationally.
[23] A show curated from the Anne and Michael Spalter collection was held in 2011 at the deCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA.