The Tickle - #94 ft. Beets & Bay Backner

My 1980s Micro Arts @microartsgroup appeared at Victoria & Albert Museum London, at inspiring Digital Art Hubs Nodes & Networks talk @V_and_A with curator Pita Arreola @pitarreola Zaiba Jabbar @ZaibaJabbar (HERVISIONS) author Catherine Mason @CathComputerArt (Computer Arts Society) @computerartssoc and designer James Stevens (Backspace SPC) @deckspace Photos are Piano Bar Red, with the print magazine; the panel in mid conversation; the Prestel teletext site and a data cassette, which I used for distribution back then, there was no web or even email. Piano Bar generative art @generativeart was released in a set of 6 programs on 'Various Unusual Events' cassette shown here - the code was converted to audio then played back into the micro computer (like on a modem). There was no music on the cassettes.

🧵In the 88th issue, we explored the Node to Node exhibition in Paris to gain insights into how the web3 landscape is being explored by pioneering figures in generative art, courtesy of @KateVassGalerie

The piece shown in the short clip above is 'Quadrate (Squares)' (1970) by @HerbertWFranke, shown below from the collection of Spalter Digital. "The computer offers other methods to generate complexity, namely with the random generator contained in every common programming language; in my computer-generated image QUADRATE (Squares), such a random generator was used, and so it is easy to indicate how complex the three occurring distributions are: those of the red, yellow and orange circles." - Herbert W. Franke, 1970s Full Text: art-meets-science.io/en/herbert-w-f…