Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-1989

摘要

The machine has been central to The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history since its founding. Exhibitions like Machine Art (1934) and The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age (1968) were prescient in observing aesthetic and social impacts of the machine on art making across mediums and disciplines. Further, exhibitions ranging from Information at The Museum of Modern Art (1970), Cybernetic Serendipity at the ICA in London (1968), and Software at the Jewish Museum (1970) attest to a reckoning of a human-centered techno-logic. Yet machines that think-from the earliestinception of computers and computing in daily life-have not been fully articulated as both an overlapping and a continuing part of this narrative. Indeed, when considering the centrality of computational thinking and algorithmic approximations of human desire today, we are ever-enmeshed in overlapping, often invisible systems that extend our lives into spaces which were conceived years ago.