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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