Digital Pioneers Exhibit V & A
Thanks to Honor Beddard for an interesting insight into the curation of V&A Digital Pioneers Collection. Running until 25 April 2010, the collection highlights the very beginnings of computer generated art with work from Frieder Nake, Herbert W. Franke, Harold Cohen, Manfred Mohr, Roman Verastko and Vera Molnar along with other pioneers at the cutting edge of the creative use of computers in the visual arts. The collection is a selection of prints, plotter drawings and multimedia works using computer algorithms to create non-human decisions within the creative process. The works themselves are accompanied by documentation from the artists and industry behind the technologies which reach back as early as the 1950s. The collection is destined for expansion as more pieces are discovered and recognised for their importance, and a must see for anyone interested in the history of computer generated art and design.
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