Sodobna umetnost (Aljoša Abrahamsberg),
13. december 2016
― Franc Curk, Goran Devide, Hidrogizma, Brina Jež Brezavšček, Marko Košnik, Seta Mušič, Skupina OHO (Marko Pogačnik), Marko Peljhan, Marjan Šijanec, Miha Vipotnik, Edward Zajec The archival exhibition Pioneers of Computer Art takes as its point of departure the question of why technology needs artists, and artists need technology. Pioneers of Computer Art presents artistic approaches at the intersections of different fields (programmed art, electronic music, and multimedia theater) that augured the use of computers before they came into general use. The featured artists worked as cultural trailblazers: encountering new scientific and technological tools, they foresaw new modes of thinking and ways of viewing space through the multisensory perception of art, development of various social relations, and hybrid fusions of digital, electronic, and organic materials. They considered the impact of mathematical processes and digital technologies on politics and culture. They used algorithms and coded language to direct patterns on the pictorial plane, determine performative gestures, program generative sound compositions, and open up architecture and physical space. They posed questions about interactivity, processuality, generativeness, programmability and virtuality before these terms became embedded in everyday speech. They created a space for the reciprocal sending and receiving of information flows, a space of involvement, activity, and multidirectional interactivity. What happens in this interspace is a metamorphosis that creates a networked body or a new mode of perception in the interaction of the media. In the media space of an artwork, consciousness can temporarily expand and control all information that is input and output. The attraction of media art lies in the fact that it enables insights into input systems, where the meta-structures preconditioning the cultural and political determination of technological tools can be discerned. Artists explore signifiers in
