Intersection: International Art and Culture Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing 27 May – 27 August 2018
Frieder Nake’s work 12/7/65 No. 2, 1965 is a pioneering example of computer art in which the image is wholly machine-generated. It has “zero meaning”, he likes to say, even if somewhat ironically.
A series of black lines in a kind of sheaf is a reminder of the simple, if groundbreaking beginning of the genre, a far cry from what can be done today.
Frieder Nake. 12/7/65 No. 2, 1965. ‘Random bundles of straight lines’, computer-generated automatic drawing, 72 x 59 cm.
Interview by LILLY WEI Filmed by MARTIN KENNEDY
Frieda Nake talking to Studio International at the opening of Intersection: International Art and Culture, Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing, 27 May 2018. Photograph: Martin Kennedy.Frieda Nake talking to Studio International at the opening of Intersection: International Art and Culture, Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing, 27 May 2018. Photograph: Martin Kennedy.
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Poet, typographer and publisher Hansjörg Mayer and the computer art pioneer Frieder Nake talk us through this major exhibition of Mayer’s works from concrete poetry to radical typography to artists’ publications
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