[Nettime-nl] lecture in Arti et amicitae, 'Notions of the Program in the Art of the 1960s – Concrete, Computer-generated and Conceptual Art'

[Darko Fritz <fritz.d@chello.nl>]

Dear Amsterdamned friends,

Friday 30th at 20 h In Arti et amicitae in Amsterdam I will deliver  
the lecture 'Notions of the Program in the Art of the 1960s –  
Concrete, Computer-generated and Conceptual Art', with many visuals  
(stills, audio and video) form the "bit international" exhibition[s]  
in Neue Galerie and ZKM (that I curated). Introduction by Remko Scha:  
The Prehistory of Process Art. It is part of the Het Proces, symposium  
(and exhibition) of generative art.

Symposium program enclosed (Eng.). Dutch: http://www.arti.nl/tentoonstelling.php?id=217

best regards

Darko Fritz

The presentation will examine several exhibitions, artists practices  
and related theories on the notion of the program in art. Several  
tendencies of art of 1960s that are at the first sight completely  
different and excluding each other can be viewed throughout the  
notions of the program. The first discourse toward the notion of the  
program in art we can find in Concrete / Neo-constructivistic /  
Luminokinetic art and alike, second discourse in Computer-generated  
art and third in Conceptual art. Umberto Eco writes a text on “Arte  
Programmata” for the catalogue of an exhibition with the same title in  
Milano in 1962. At the New tendencies movement and network (1961 –  
1973) organizers set computer generated works in relation to  
Constructive and Kinetic Art (1968/69) and to Conceptual Art (1973).  
At the time being in 1960s almost no communication was established  
between mentioned three ways of artistic practices and related  
theories. Very few exhibitions were presented those kinds of works  
together back in the time of its production. New tendencies tried to  
merge these three artistic practices through the notion of the  
programme and by the works not being executed by the artist himself/ 
herself. The principle idea of the “program”, as a key position for an  
exhibition, triumphed in 1970 when Jack Burnham organized the  
exhibition “Software. Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art”  
for the Jewish Museum in New York. The exhibition brought together  
projects realized with computers and projects by conceptual artists.

The presentation will be acompanied with audio-visual documentation  
from the 1960s and newly recorded ones, esspecially from the  
exhibition  bit international . [New] Tendencies Computers and Visual  
Research, Zagreb 1961-1973, Neue Galerie, Graz, 2007 and ZKM (Zentrum  
fur Kunst und Medientechnologie), Karlsruhe, 2008-2009

http://www02.zkm.de/bit/

Darko Fritz

http://darkofritz.net


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