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Herbert W. Franke in good company: his own experiments in line, light and form. We often tell the story of early computer art through milestones. Photographs like this bring us back to the artist, and the pleasure of looking. @HerbertWFranke@Foundation_HWF#earlydigitalart
What interests me is that the computer wasn’t the whole story. It joined a conversation already happening through paintings, kinetic objects and light. The question wasn’t just what a machine could make, but what it could help artists investigate./6
Before “digital art” had a name, artists in New Tendencies were working with rules, repetition and movement. Some made paintings and objects; others would turn to computers. What connected them was a way of thinking about art: as something to explore, test and share. /1
What interests me is that the computer wasn’t the whole story. It joined a conversation already happening through paintings, kinetic objects and light. The question wasn’t just what a machine could make, but what it could help artists investigate. /5
AN ARTIST’S LIFE, PART 2 | RAFAËL ROZENDAAL EXPERIMENTS WITH PAINTING
The internet art pioneer (@newrafael) tells Anika Meier (@postanika) how his income from digital art made it possible to extend his practice to canvas, enabling him to take breaks from being online
https://t.co/UKjU7h6O8q
Through Neil, Jehan, and Jeannie’s leadership, pioneering digital and blockchain-native art are n cemented into the civic canon—ensuring critical conservation, scholarship, and public access for generations to come.
A transformative chapter for the global digital arts ecosystem.
Step into Vera Molnar’s Paris studio this weekend. @lerandomart just released a new fully playable software on their Living Timeline. You can actually run her programs on an IBM System/370 and watch the Benson plotter draw in real time. Super!
To celebrate Vera Molnar at @V_and_A
We made a new playable Timeline moment based on Molnar’s years at CIRCE Orsay Computing Centre
→ https://t.co/8Taoy32hic
Run her programs on an IBM System/370 and watch the Benson plotter draw
Congratulations to all the artists whose work is now part of @LACMA’s permanent collection.
Through the LACMA Digital Leaders Collection, Fellowship co-founder Neil Hutchinson has gifted 34 artworks from 13 artists, helping preserve these works of digital art and ideally bringing them into a broader art historical conversation. Congratulations again to everyone who contributed to this acquisition. To read the full press release, visit: https://t.co/gTv1eF6BTO
●Maya Man, FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT #404 (2022)
●Rafaël Rozendaal, Homage #93 (2022)
●Diego Trujillo Pisanty, Blind Camera #20 and #91 (2024)
●EKO33, Latent Ink #074 (2024)
●Linda Dounia, Once Upon a Garden, F3-GNS03 First to Fifth Generation, tokens 96-100 (2024), 5 works
●Trevor Paglen, Evolved Hallucinations: FACECAP; The Purification of Lust #7 (Corpus: Terraces of Purgatory); Shadow #14 (Corpus: Things That Exist Negatively) (2024)
●Sofia Crespo, Critically Extant: Acilacris Furcatus (2021)
●Zach Lieberman, 100 Sunsets #52 (2022)
●Vera Molnár, Themes and Variations #92 (2023)
●Operator, Human Unreadable #76 (2023)
●Lauren Lee McCarthy, Seeing Voices #45 and #53 (2024)
●Sarah Meyohas, Infinite Petals 1x1 #11, 2x2 #1688, 3x3 #1414, 5x5 #20440, 10x10 #400 (2025)
●Yatreda (Kiya Tadele), Andromeda of Aethiopia, Volume II (2022), 10 works: Dalion #10/75, Avléos #54/75, Sadéos #38/75, Princess Andromeda #17/50, Queen Cassiopeia #3/50, Kérichos #3/75, Cetus #3/25, King Cepheus #10/50, Perseus #4/25, Andromeda - Constellation #2/13
@mayaonthenet@newrafael@dtpisanty@Eko3316@LindaDouniaR@trevorpaglen@soficrespo91@zachlieberman@operator_______@SarahMeyohas@yatreda
Rafaël Rozendaal, Homage #93 (2022)
Trevor Paglen, Evolved Hallucinations: FACECAP; The Purification of Lust #7 (2024)
Maya Man, FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT #404 (2022)
*Gift of Neil Hutchinson and Fellowship, founding member of LACMA Digital Leaders.
Long time since a museum show of digital art kept resonating with me for days afterwards. The Vera Molnar exhibition at the @V_and_A is that rare thing: beautiful and alive. Her pioneering systems still feel fresh next to today’s generative artists like @harmvddorpel & @mattdesl . Loved every minute of it.
AN ARTIST’S LIFE, PART 1 | RAFAËL ROZENDAAL GROWS UP ON THE INTERNET
Rafaël Rozendaal (@newrafael) speaks to Anika Meier (@postanika) about a quarter-century of making art online and the institutional recognition that has placed him in the timeline of art history
https://t.co/q2WRS2xgSY
Pure electronic poetry from 1958.
@HerbertWFranke Tanz der Elektronen captures cathode-ray oscilloscope graphics calculated on a custom analog computer. Decades ahead of its time.
Currently on view at @museumfolkwang@Foundation_HWF
Thanks for the movie @SNOWCASH432 !
#HerbertWFranke #GenerativeArt #EarlyComputerArt
Exhibition catalogues are still one of the best ways into early digital art. Installation views, forgotten names, technical notes. Sometimes a small black & white reproduction tells you more than a perfect image online.
Thirty years after @Rhizome began, the central question of internet art remains remarkably open: how do you preserve a medium built on obsolescence, instability and perpetual change? A thoughtful conversation between @michael_connor and Ben Davis @artnet on the past and uncertain future of website art.
https://t.co/PYKaE0wE1E
#InternetArt #Rhizome #DigitalArt #NetArt
A 1920 Piet Mondrian's Composition III (Komposition No. XIII). Just hammered at @ChristiesInc London for GBP 25,235,000.
Juxtaposed with a 2022 Casey Reas' CENTURY-XXX-METAFRANKE #934 available for less than 20 GBP; minted as tribute to Herbert W. Franke “In Honor of the Dinosaur of Computer Art”
A former monk who turned his Minneapolis studio into an “electronic scriptorium.” Roman Verostko (1929–2024) wrote his own code to drive pen plotters and produced algorithmic drawings that fuse pure form, controlled chance, and the logic of illuminated manuscripts, often finished by hand with gold leaf. As co-founder of the Algorists, he treated the algorithm as both score and visual scripture.