ART STATIONS PREVIEW - IT FROM BIT :: Poznań, Poland, 31.05 – 30.09.2008.
(2008 06 02 16:01)
Venue: Stary Browar Gallery, Poznan :: Monday to Sunday 12-7 p.m.
ART STATIONS is the newly opened contemporary arts center located in a new venue designed by Tadao Ando – renowned Japanese architect. It is going to be a museum as well as an institution promoting and selling art (fine art but also fashion, design, film and dance). ART STATIONS’ activities such as the performative, exhibition and multimedia programs will be presented there.
ART STATIONS PREVIEW - IT FROM BIT is the exhibition opening ART STATIONS and presenting the works of two artists – Gabriel Orozco from Mexico and Manfred Mohr from Germany. Both of them use mathematical algorithm and employ computers in their art.
Their common exhibition is an occasion to ask some interesting questions:
- Is one who creates algorithms which then generate a work of art still an artist or merely a programmer?
- Maybe the 'authorship' belongs to the computer which processes the data and draws the work in its final form?
- If we treat an artist-algorithmician as a legitimate artist, what then constitutes the 'creation'? The making of the algorithm?
More information can be found here.