Computer Graphic
In 1968, during the time of the Prague Spring, and still before Cybernetic Serendipity opened in London on August 2, 1968, and before Tendencies 4: Computers and Visual Research started in Zagreb on August 3, 1968, Jiří Valoch, a Czech concrete poet, organized in Czechoslovakia an exhibition of digital art. It was shown in February 1968 in Brno (at Dům umění města Brna, House of Arts), in March 1968 in Jihlava (Oblastní Galerie Vysočiny), and in April 1968 in Gottwaldov (now Zlín) (Oblastní galerie výtvarného umění). The show presented works by Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, Lubomír Sochor, Charles Csuri, Leslei Mezei, and A. Michael Noll. Frieder Nake gave a lecture at the Brno opening. This show was, most likely, the first digital art exhibition in Eastern Europe.” (source)
The catalogue includes six reproductions of the works (Nake, Nees, Sochor), texts "Programované umění" (Valoch, 1967), "Projekty generativní estetiky" (Max Bense, 1965, excerpt), "Poznámky pro Jiřího Valocha" (Nake, 1967), "O realizaci mých grafik" (Sochor, 1967), and short biographies of exhibiting artists.
- Catalogue
- Computer Graphic, ed. Jiří Valoch, Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 1968, 16 pp, PDF. (Czech)
- Literature
- Miroslav Klivar, Nová umění v Čechách, Prague: Regulus, 2001, p 22. (Czech)
- Lenka Dolanová, "Computer Graphic", Okraj 5, Apr 2018, p 6. (Czech)
- Jana Horáková, Jiří Mucha, "Computer Graphic Re-Visited: The Virtual Reconstruction of One of the First Computer Art Exhibitions", Proceedings of the IEEE 107:3, Mar 2019, pp 616-629, HTML. (English)
- Jana Horáková, Jiří Mucha, Computer Graphic Re-Visited, Brno: The Brno House of Arts, 2017, [10] pp. Exh. booklet. (English)
- Jiří Mucha, Computer Graphic (1968). Rekonstrukce první výstavy počítačem generovaného umění v bývalém Československu, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2017, 86 pp. Master's thesis. (Czech)
- 1968: computer.art. Levá hemisféra, Pravá hemisféra, 2 vols., ed. Ondřej Chrobák, Brno: Moravská galerie v Brně, 2018, 71 & 54 pp. Exh. catalogue. (Czech)
- Jana Písaříková, "Umění tvořené mrtvými stroji", pp 5-16 (vol. 2).
- See also
Czech Republic#Computer_and_computer-aided_art
- Links
- http://dada.compart-bremen.de/node/849
- 1968:computer.art exhibition, Moravian Gallery, Brno, 2018
