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31 Lowell Nesbitt, IBM 1440 , 1965,
oil on canvas.
of Art, to produce works as part of his Art and Technology
programme. Many of the artists, including those named above, pro-
posed projects involving computers. None except that of the poet
and Fluxus associate Jackson Mac Low were successfully achieved,
showing perhaps that the computer is, perhaps, a linguistic rather
than an visual medium, whether language is used as a medium or for
control. More successful were Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer
and the Arts (illus.
) curated by Jasia Reichardt at the
Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and The Machine as Seen
at the End of the Mechanical Age at the Museum of Modern Art in
New York. Cybernetic Serendipity might be considered the apogee of
computer-aided art, considered as a mainstream art form. It con-
sisted of all forms of computer-influenced and aided art, including
work in music, interactivity, cybernetic art, computer-generated
film and computer graphics, and involved an eclectic mixture of con-
tributors, including Cage and many others mentioned above, and
scientists from university laboratories, and was highly successful.
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and
33
the beginning of the end of early computer art
The late
s were both the apogee and the beginning of the end for
both the widespread application of Cybernetics in contemporary art,
and for attempts to use the computer as an artistic medium, at least
1960
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