Spalter Digital

The Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection is one of the world's largest and most important privately held collections devoted to early computer art.

[Ana María Caballero @CaballeroAnaMa]

exceedingly happy to share that five editions of Sonic Bodies have entered the Spalter Digital collection.

thank you to the Spalters for paving so many ways.

[Mia Forrest 💎 @miaforrestphoto]

Honoured to share that the complete suite of five original brass plates from 𝔒𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔡𝔰 has been acquired by @SpalterDigital

@michaelspalter + @annespalter have built an extraordinary collection of early computer art to contemporary digital work. Being part of this collection is something I'm very proud of and honoured, much gratitude🌷

You can view the 𝔒𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔡𝔰 here, read more, learn more about the project - and while you're at it - browse the Spalter Digital collection:

https://t.co/cTEcRWySIl

[Herbert W. Franke @HerbertWFranke]

🟪 ASTROPOETICON 2027 takes shape 🟪
Milestone: First Preview @Foundation_HWF

This week marked the first preview of the ASTROPOETICON 2027 project at the beautiful Augsburg Planetarium. It was an important milestone of the project. For this occasion, the foundation invited several researchers from the Augsburg Technical University of Applied Sciences, the University of Augsburg and from the production side.

– Daniel Rothaug, Professor Interface Design, Dean Faculty of Design, THA
– Carolin Jörg, Professor Artistic Design, Faculty of Design, THA
– Andreas Muxel, Professor Physical Human-Machine Interfaces, Faculty of Design, THA
– Robert Rose, Professor Time Based Media, Faculty of Design, THA– Julian Werlitz, Assistant Professor of Modern German Literature and Coordinator of the Elite Master’s Program “Ethics of Textual Cultures”, UA
– Michael Fragstein, artist und multimedia producer
– Markus Steblei, Director Planetarium Augsburg

First and foremost, the foundation was keen to learn how the experts evaluated the project as a whole. This included whether the core concept actually works. This is: using the reading of the poems as a continuous narrative thread upon which diverse multimedia aesthetics could unfold. The researchers present unanimously approved of this approach. There was also a stimulating exchange, which included feedback on the dramaturgy the Foundation had chosen. Other aspects discussed included the mastering of the sound. Thanks so much to all supports, artists ,experts, friends. It is wonderful to see the ASTROPOETICON is taking shape.

[NB @Noahbolanowski]

Computer Worlds (计算万千世界), West Bund Art Museum, Shanghai (Sept. 24 2026 - Feb. 14, 2027)

Curated from the Centre Pompidou's extensive collection of historical & contemporary digital artworks, including A Michael Noll, Vera Molnar, John Gerrard + more...

[Spalter Digital @SpalterDigital]

Michael Spalter on Verse Talks: Four Decades of Collecting Digital Art -

Michael Spalter is the guest on the September 19, 2026 episode of Verse Talks, the podcast from @verse_works

In an hour with host @leyla_solos he talks about how he and Anne started collecting digital art and built the collection, and about the pioneers of computer art.

Much of the episode is about Charles Csuri : his life and work, why he stayed outside the traditional art market, MoMA's early acquisition of Hummingbird, and his later 3D ribbon works. The collection holds Hummingbird 1 , from 1967, among its twelve Csuri works.

The two also get into artistic value versus market value, museums rediscovering the early computer artists, NFTs and generative art, and collecting as stewardship.

https://t.co/VSLFppDezH

[Le Random @lerandomart]

Our Autumn 2026 Art & Tech Preview

📅 https://t.co/i2D5OZIiTL📅

by Peter Bauman @monkantony_tez with
@always__curious → @V_and_A | @sofiagarcia_io → @artxcode_io | @ArtOnBlockchain → @artblocks_io | @michaelspalter → @SpalterDigital | @archivepilled → @l______o______g | @quasimatt → @AIPSummit

Mentions: @saturnial @katecrawford @yaoeo @ChristianePaul2 @elluba @mayaonthenet @luke_shannon_ @memotv @curiousoctopus @REAS @Licia_He @dmitricherniak @ronentanchum @CharlesCsuri @crystalbennes @CaballeroAnaMa @nodefnd @glitchresidency @l______o______g @rhizome @MuseumModernArt @whitneymuseum @L_D_F @lumenprize @thearmoryshow @GazelliArtHouse @jeudepaume @ArtWeekTokyo @ParisPhotoFair @newmuseum @haywardgallery @NFT_NYC @ArsElectronica @SIGGRAPHAsia @NeurIPSConf

[𝐿𝑒𝓎𝓁𝒶 @leyla_solos]

💪 Four decades of collecting digital art.

Michael Spalter joined me in my fave city to discuss the @annespalter and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection.

It was truly a special episode to record. Thank you so much Michael for making the time. It was such a treat🙏🏾

[Spalter Digital @SpalterDigital]

New to the Spalter Digital Collection: “800 Rectangles à Valeur Variable (800 Rectangles with Variable Values)” - A 1981 screenprint on paper by Vera Molnár.

Part of a portfolio of five screenprints, each 50 × 32.5 cm. The five sheets carry the same 800 rectangles in the same positions. The only thing that changes is the tonal value, the "valeur." It's a demonstration that in her work the image isn't the shapes, it's the relationship between them.

https://t.co/hLr7AN43Fw

[Spalter Digital @SpalterDigital]

New on Spalter Digital, search by image!

Upload an image and the site will use AI-powered search to see if the work is part of the collection, if it is it will link to the work, if not it will show the most visually similar works.

For researchers and art enthusiasts this give you a fun new way to explore the collection.

https://t.co/3tyNJemnWj

[Spalter Digital @SpalterDigital]

New to the Spalter Digital Collection:
“Girls with Maple Leaves” - A 1967 plotter drawing in ink on paper by Leslie Mezei.

Made in Canada's centennial year on the University of Toronto's IBM 7094 and a CalComp plotter, it is one of Mezei's maple-leaf series: two digitized drawings, a girl and a leaf, scattered across a ten by ten grid by a random routine in his own SPARTA drawing language.

https://t.co/6CjcKNQ30Y

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Mark Wilson: New Plotter Drawings and Four Decades of Prints at Machine Arts Gallery

Computer art pioneer Mark Wilson opens a solo exhibition at Machine Arts Gallery in Peekskill, New York, on Friday, September 4, 2026, with a reception from 6 to 8pm and the artist in attendance. The exhibition runs through September. Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays 10am to 6pm, Fridays by chance.

The show, in the gallery Bantam Tools runs at 107 S Division St, brings together more than twenty prints spanning Wilson’s career and five new pen plotter drawings, his first plotted works since the early 1990s. (!)

Wilson, one of the original American Algorists, bought a Texas Instruments home computer in 1980 and has written his own code ever since, at a time when, as he tells Machine Arts Magazine , “The art world in those days was very contemptuous of anything made with a computer.”

The Spalter Digital collection holds 36 works by Wilson , from two 1981 Hatchpoint plotter drawings to inkjet prints from 2010.

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@Acevedomedia @annespalter @michaelspalter @CathComputerArt @computerartssoc @GoldsmithsUoL we are also now active on X at @SpalterDigital

[Spalter Digital @SpalterDigital]

@bre Beautiful! Spalter Digital has a bunch of his works. This reminds me of CSQ 922

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[Spalter Digital @SpalterDigital]

New to the Spalter Digital Collection: Vera Molnár, "A Céline D. / En Diagonale" (2012).

Molnár's method never changed: set a rule, introduce a controlled disturbance, let it compound across a series.

This 2012 canvas applies that method without a computer. It was painted the year of her retrospective at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen and is dedicated to a "Céline D."

Acrylic on canvas mounted on wood, 200 × 10 cm, signed, titled and dated verso.

https://t.co/BnFtk9oHr0

[Spalter Digital @SpalterDigital]

New to the Spalter Digital Collection: “Triangles I-V” - 2023 serigraphs on Rives BFK paper by Vera Molnár.

At 99, the last year of her life, in a retirement home, Molnár watched light come through her door and cross the floor all day. She had spent sixty years asking what happens when a shape shifts slightly, and these five prints ask it one last time, without a computer.

Printed at Éditions FANAL in Basel, a workshop in an old paper mill in the Sankt Alban valley where she had been making prints since 1991.

https://t.co/i9ekvJK31i