It has also frequently been argued (Charlie Gere could say more about this) that Information marked a "breaking point" when it came to technology-based exhibitions so far (some of them listed below) -- the point when "computer art" dropped out of the picture, and the issues it had addressed were taken on by non-technological conceptual art, which would be written into the art-historical canon. New Tendencies also would be important to consider in this context because the struggle with conceptual art played out in that context, too.
This is Tomorrow, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1956)
Stuttgart University Art Gallery (1965)
Howard Wise Art Gallery in New York (1966)
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T), 9 evenings, Armory, NY (1966)
The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, MOMA, NY (1968)
Some More Beginnings (E.A.T.), Brooklyn Museum (1968)
Cybernetic Serendipity, ICA, London (1968)
Event One (Computer Arts Society), London (1969)
Art by Telephone, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (1969)
Software: Information Technology (curated by Jack Burnham), Jewish Museum, New York (1970)
Information (curated by Kynaston McShine), MOMA, New York (1970)
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Subject: Re: October's theme: Art History Online, an introduction
Yes, and I believe you could say it was one of the first exhibitions by a
major museum institution to address the use of communications media in
art. It is interesting to note that this show was just two years after
Pontus Hulten's The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age from
1968, also at MoMA, which focused on a broad historical survey culminating
primarily with kinetic forms. So clearly, MoMA considered communications
media as the next big thing in art and technology, setting the stage for
future development of networked and online forms beginning in the late
1970s.
On 10/8/13 12:30 PM, "Rob Myers" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>On 07/10/13 11:35 PM, Randall Packer wrote:
>> An important precursor is the Information show curated by Kynastan
>>McShine
>> at MoMA in 1970.
>
>Also in the Conceptual era, Art and Language turned their sprawling
>conversational artistic practice as captured in articles and transcripts
>into a Google-style but paper-based series of "indexes" starting with
>Index 001 (1972).
>
>The perceived hermeticism of Art and Language at that time, their use of
>information technology (later including microfilm and computer
>printouts) and their blurring of "the art" with "the conversation" all
>producing a publicly-searchable record that existed regardless of
>whether there was a public for it outside of the group remind me very
>much of mailing lists. :-)
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