Arteonics

27.11.2024 – 31.01.2025
The Mayor Gallery
9 Bury Street, St James’s
London

This exhibition features pioneering international artists including Giovanni Anceschi, Marina Apollonio, Davide Boriani, Miguel Chevalier, Waldemar, and Analivia Cordeiro, Hugo Demarco, Gabriele Devecchi, Raimund Girke, Lucia Di Luciano, Julio Le Parc, Liliane Lijn, Robert Mallary, Vera Molnár, François Morellet, Peter Struycken, Grazia Varisco and Gerhard von Graevenitz, showcasing their innovative approaches and experimental practices which laid the groundwork for the rich and diverse landscape of digital art that we see today.

Influenced by aspects of Constructivism, Op Art, Systems Art and Concrete art, artists began in the mid 20th Century experimenting with using technology as a medium for creative expression as computers became more accessible. Partly a response to the overt subjectivity of Abstract Expressionism they discovered how mathematical and logical processes of programming and algorithms could generate captivating visual forms. Teaching themselves to code, they created and programmed strict scientific parameters, which, along with random elements of chance, allowed artists to use the computer as a tool to produce unique and unexpected outputs.