Tag: Cybernetic Serendipity

  • Cybernetic Serendipity – a walk around the exhibition

    With artificial intelligence and its effect on creativity high on the agenda, now is the perfect time to revisit the ICA’s landmark Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition of 1968  

  • London’s Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde

    From a naked man flinging himself into a giant jelly to a 24-hour piano recital to John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s first joint show, London’s experimental art scene of the 1960s changed the face of art in the UK. David…

  • Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts

    To mark the 50th anniversary of this pioneering publication and exhibition, Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts has been reprinted and is available to purchase

  • Gustav Metzger – In King’s Lynn

    This show of Metzger’s work, as part of the King’s Lynn Norfolk festival, looks at his years living in the town in the 1950s, a time that shaped his move to social engagement and activism in his output

  • Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers

    This beautifully curated display includes work from the pioneers of digital art of the 1950s and 60s through to the younger generations practising today

  • Cybernetic Serendipity: History and Lasting Legacy

    Catherine Mason considers the ICA’s groundbreaking computer art exhibition of 1968 and looks at how it has shaped digital art in the 50 years since

  • Technology and Art 10: LINGUISTICS AND TOYS AT THE ICA

    “Increasing numbers of mathematicians and of engineers have joined them [poets, philologists and philosophers], attracted by technical problems, formerly ignored or considered trivial… Play Orbit…`toys, games and playables by people who are not professionally involved with the design of playthings,…

  • Cybernetic Serendipity 50th Anniversary

    The Studio International special issue Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts was first published in July 1968 to accompany the ICA exhibition of the same name curated by Jasia Reichardt. Both the publication and the exhibition are now legendary

  • The Computer and Music: Coordinate Expansion

    Cybernetic Serendipity: the computer and the arts, Studio International Special Issue, 1968

  • The Lumen Prize Awards 2016

    In its fifth year, this leading global prize for digital art has really hit its stride, with a greater diversity and richness of technology and themes deployed to artful ends than ever before