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Abstraction Now, Künstlerhaus Wien, 29 Aug – 28 Sep 2003.
Exhibition: Abstraction Now, Kuenstlerhaus Wien
Abstraction Now was a seminal exhibition on abstraction in contemporary art, cutting across genres and media but featuring media art and generative works in a prominent position. Conceived and curated by Norbert Pfaffenbichler with Sandro Droschl, the show collected painting, sculpture, video and computer-based works grouped by abstraction as a theme.
The works of 74 artists were presented, 25 of them shown online and in a media lounge section of the show, curated by Lia and Miguel Carvalhais. The Abstraction Now online project is still online, featuring interactive and generative works by artists like Dextro, Levin, Lia, Yugop, Reas, Tindall etc.
A hefty catalogue was produced for the show, thoroughly documenting the works and providing a series of insightful texts on the exhibition theme. Norbert Pfaffenbichler presents a solid background to abstraction as artistic device, and then goes on to describe how generative works become algorithmic tableaux vivants. Lev Manovich’s text “Abstraction and Complexity” examines the works in the media lounge section, and argues that complexity is the main paradigm of generative software abstractions.
From the introduction to the catalogue:
The catalogue is available from Camera Austria. At 28 EUR, it’s good value for a high-quality production. And if you need proof, you can also access the catalogue texts in PDF form for free. Respect to Pfaffenbichler, Droschl etc. for making these texts available.
Links:
[...] http://processing.org/learning/index.html http://www.complexification.net/gallery/ http://www.levitated.net/daily/index.html http://www.generatorx.no/category/generative-art/ [...]
Abstraction Now!
An exhibition that took place in Austria…
The exhibition presents novel methods and tendencies of abstract contemporary art, focussed on audio-visual media and interdisciplinary aspects. Abstraction, a concept over-strained in art theory and ra…
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