Dear Crumbsters
Here's an article some of you may find interesting. Although this is
notionally a review of the recent bit international – [New] Tendencies –
Computers and Visual Research at Graz (curated by Darko Fritz), it is as
much a retracing of the unique cultural position, between socialism and
capitalism, occupied by Yugoslavia in the post-war period. The writer
deals interestingly with the role technology played within the
avant-gardist flight from the dead-lock between socialist realism and
arid internationalist abstraction - the main choices on the cultural
menu of the day.
This also extends the usual anglophone milestones of early computer art
exhibitions - cybernetic serendipity in London and the software
exhibition in NYC.
Hope it's of interest,
Josie
Before the Art of New Media
By Lidja Merenik
The restaging of Tendencies 4, the 1968 Zagreb based exhibition series
and colloquium, in the recent show bit international – [New] Tendencies
– Computers and Visual Research does more than deepen and
internationalise our understanding of computer art’s early history. It
also presents an opportunity to revisit the cultural landscape of Tito’s
Yugoslavia. Here Lidija Merenik considers the show in Graz and [New]
Tendencies’ unique engagement with international avant-gardist concerns,
technology’s utopian potential and the socialist cultural landscape of
ex-Yugoslavia
http://www.metamute.org/en/Before-the-art-of-new-media
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