Tag: ICA

  • Fluorescent Chrysanthemum Remembered

    A retrospective exhibition, curated by Jasia Reichardt,  celebrates the 1968 ICA show that first brought the Japanese avant garde to Europe

  • Cary Leibowitz: ‘I hate my aesthetic. I wish I was delicate and elegant and smart and earth-shattering’

    For his first major retrospective, the undersung American artist fills the ICA Philadelphia with more than 300 works that span a 30-year career. Leibowitz discusses how he established himself as an artist in the 1980s and 90s, and the origins…

  • 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,…

  • Serendipity Symposium 2017

    Is serendipity entirely human – or human-driven – or can researchers into artificial intelligence design it into computer programs? Leading “serendiptologists” joined Jasia Reichardt, curator of the ICA’s iconic 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, to debate the issue

  • James Richards: Requests and Antisongs

    Sensory stimulation is privileged over semantics in this tripartite installation of new works by the Turner Prize-nominated sound and video artist

  • Rosalind Nashashibi at the ICA

    This exhibition sees a return to the ICA for Nashashibi, the first female artist to win their Beck’s Futures prize back in 2003. Since that date her work has undergone what seems to be a significant shift in direction, something…

  • 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…

  • The cybernetic sculpture of Tsai Wen-ying

    Our attitude today to machinery is such a compound of dependence, admiration and fear; and the relationship between man and machine is so fundamental to the twentieth-century environment—both physical and metaphysical—that it is not surprising if many artists have begun…

  • Cybernetic Serendipity—Getting Rid of Preconceptions

    Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition was the demonstration of machine-aided creative processesBy JASIA REICHARDT

  • Cybernetic Serendipity: Correspondence

    ‘Cybernetics includes all observable systems—whether biological, electronic, industrial, economic or anything else.’