Tag: Frieder Nake
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Art & the Book* and Spineless Wonders: The Power of Print Unbound**
Two concurrent exhibitions bring special collections into broader spaces of circulation, highlighting print’s enduring role as a medium of collective expression and firmly placing a new era of zine-making and independent, small-press publishing within a radical multigenerational continuum
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Leslie Jones – interview: ‘I wanted to recontextualise the material, not to remarginalise it, by looking at it again “in its moment””
Jones, the curator behind the Los Angeles Museum of Art’s much-anticipated exhibition of early works from the computer age, explains her vision for the project
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Hansjörg Mayer – interview: ‘To handle and open and read the books … that to me is a very important thing’
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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Frieder Nake, interview
Intersection: International Art and Culture Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing 27 May – 27 August 2018
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Intersection: International Art and Culture
In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University has invited 14 artists from around the world to submit work that emphasises the universality of the language of art
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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
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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
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Primary Codes
This ambitious exhibition by four greats of computer art brings together works from the very start of the genre in the early 1960s to the modern day. Despite being a very successful event, it is fair to question: is this…
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Technology and Art 15: Computer graphics at Brunel
“The potential that was so evident at the 1968 ICA exhibition is still there, but the actuality has hardly advanced at all, and this is depressing. There was always a danger that the phenomenon called computer art would come to…
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Computer Art
The computer performs various functions which in the broader sense seem to be acts of intelligence, i.e. manipulation of symbols, processing of information, obeying complex rules, even learning by experience. Nevertheless, the computer is not capable of making abstractions, and…
