A new history of digital art from the 1960s to now, with decade-by-decade essays exploring evolving digital art practices, alongside interviews with artists, gallerists, museum curators and collectors.
Andy Warhol, Amiga Computer Image – Andy Fright Wig, undated, image generated on an Amiga computer
This is a global story of digital art from its earliest beginnings to the innovative work of today. Encompassing wide-ranging, experimental practices, this essential new book explores digital art’s origins in computer-generated works created by mathematicians, scientists, engineers, programmers and artists in the 1960s up to today’s interactive installations, virtual reality, internet and videogame-based artworks. ‘Digital Art: 1960s-Now’ looks at the collaborative, dynamic approach that now characterises the work of digital artists, employing technology as a tool for social, ethical and political change, alongside technology as creative stimulus.
Leeson Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lorna, 1979–84, screenshot from computer-based interactive installation, ZKM Center for Art and Media
Digital Art: 1960s – Now engages with contemporary discourses on artificial intelligence, computer animation, simulation and cybernetics through the historic works of pioneering artists such as Analívia Cordeiro, Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar, Harold Cohen and Frieder Nake, alongside renowned contemporary practitioners including Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Ibiye Camp, Sarah Friend, Trevor Paglen and Anna Ridler.
Decade-by-decade essays by leading authorities explore changing digital art practices, relating to evolving technology and contemporary politics. Interviews and discussions with prominent artists,
gallerists, curators and collectors at the forefront of the discipline offer further insights in this absorbing
illustrated study of digital art and its future possibilities.
‘an important study of the medium…’
– Chris Michaels, The Art Newspaper, Number 371, October 2024
Author/Artist/Designer Pita Arreola, Corinna Gardner, Melanie Lenz Pages 208 Dimensions 28 x 23 cm ISBN 9780500480977 Multicoloured BUY: HERE
About the authors:
Corinna Gardner is Senior Curator, Design and Digital, in the V&A’s Art, Architecture, Photography and
Design department. Pita Arreola was Curator of Digital Art at the V&A and is the co-founder of Off Site Project. Melanie Lenz is Curator, Digital Art, in the V&A’s Art, Architecture, Photography and Design
department.
