Publisher's Synopsis
A new history of digital art from the 1960s to the present day, with decade-by-decade essays exploring evolving digital art practices, alongside interviews with artists, gallerists, museum curators and collectors.
This new, image-led history of global digital art from the 1960s to the present day draws on the V&A's rich collection while linking the digital art scene to wider art and design histories, and to their social, political and technological contexts. Decade-by-decade essays by leading authorities explore evolving digital art practices, and a series of interviews and discussions with prominent artists, gallerists, museum curators and collectors from the world of digital art offer fascinating insights into the subject.
The V&A's digital art collection lies at the heart of this book's fascinating story. Initiated in 1969, the collection includes 2,000 exciting works that explore ideas of artificial intelligence, computer animation, simulation, and cybernetics. Global in reach, it features historic works from pioneering artists such as Analivia Cordeiro, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnár and Frieder Nake. The collection also features artworks by renowned contemporary artists such as Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Harm van der Dorpel, Trevor Paglen, Anna Ridler and Nye Thompson.
