A little known story about a movement, a magazine and the computer's arrival in art : New Tendencies and Bit international, 1961-1973 / edited by Margit Rosen in collaboration with Peter Weibel, Darko Fritz, and Marija Gattin
Published in conjunction with exhibitions held at the Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum from Apr. 28-June 17, 2007, and at ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe from Feb. 23, 2008-Jan. 18, 2009.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: The Conditions and Circumstances That Preceded the Mounting of the First Two New Tendencies Exhibitions in Zagreb 1961-1963 / Jerko Denegri -- The Art of Programming: The New Tendencies and the Arrival of the Computer as a Means of Artistic Research / Margit Rosen -- Digital Art: Intrusion or Inclusion? / Peter Weibel -- The Work of Vladimir Bonacic: A Temporary Realization of the New Tendencies' Program / Darko Fritz -- 1961 -- Nove tendencije Preparation -- Letter to Matko Mestrovic / Almir Mavignier -- Letter to Mary Bauermeister / Bozo Bek -- Letter to Matko Mestrovic / Almir Mavignier -- Nove tendencije Exhibition -- Untitled / Matko Mestrovic -- Untitled / Radoslav Putar -- Artists' Commentaries -- 1962-1963 -- L'Instabilite Exhibition -- The Case for Programmed Experimental Painting / Francois Morellet -- Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel / Nouvelle Tendance -- Arte programmata. arte cinetica, opere moltiplicate, opera aperta Exhibition -- Umberto Eco / Arte Programmata -- Meeting of the Nouvelle Tendance -- Oltre la pittura. Oltre la scultura. Mostra di ricerche di arte visiva Exhibition -- Untitled / Umbro Apollonio -- 1963-1964 -- nove tendencije 2 Exhibition -- Untitled / Matko Mestrovic -- Artists' Commentaries -- Timeline -- For a Progressive Abstract Art / Francois Morellet -- Nouvelle Tendance -- recherche continuelle -- Bulletin No. 1 -- nuova tendenza 2 Exhibition -- neue tendenzen Exhibition -- 1964-1965 -- Propositions visuelles du mouvement international Nouvelle Tendance Exhibition -- What Is the Nouvelle Tendance? / Karl Gerstner -- Arte Programmata. Kinetic Art Exhibition -- Arte Programmata / Bruno Munari -- 1965 -- nova tendencija 3 Exhibition -- Remarks / Editorial Board -- Art as Research / Giulio Carlo Argan -- Semantic Concrete Art / Waldemar Cordeiro -- Actuality of Functional Art / Dimitrije Basicevic -- Untitled / Anonima Group -- Cybernetics and the Work of Art / Abraham A. Moles -- Working Meeting of the Participants of NT3 / Radoslav Putar -- Zagreb from Michelangelo / Francis Hewitt -- 1968 -- tendencife 4 / tendencies 4 Preparation -- nt4 program for 1968 / Bozo Bek -- Continuation of the Discussion about the Concept of nt4 on December 6, 1967 / Bozo Bek -- Program Information 1 tendencija 4 -- Program Information 7 tendencije 4 / tendencies 4 -- Letter to Bozo Bek / Waldemar Cordeiro -- Information exhibition accompanying the colloquy tendencije 4. "Kompjuteri i vizuelna istrazivanja" tendencies 4. "Computers and Visual Research" Exhibition -- tendencije 4 "Kompjuteri i vizuelna istrazivanja" tendencies 4. "Computers and Visual Research" Colloquy -- Introduction to the Colloquy / Abraham A. Moles -- Dilemma / Vjenceslav Richter -- Situation 1967 / Alberto Biasi -- Reply to Alberto Biasi / Frieder Nake -- Capabilities of the Computer in Visual Research / Vladimir Bonacic -- The Role of Interaction in Artistic Expression by Means of Computer / Branimir Makanec -- Notes on t-4 / Marc Adrian -- Computer. Creator or Tool? / Jiri Valoch -- Meeting of the t-4 Organizational Board -- Program Information 10 tendencije 4 / tendencies 4 -- Program Information 11 tendencije 4 / tendencies 4 -- bit international 1 teorija informacija i nova estetika bit international 1. the theory of information and the new aesthetics Magazine -- Why bit Appears -- Aesthetics and Programming / Max Bense -- Experimental Aesthetics in the New Consumer Society / Abraham A. Moles -- bit international 2 kompjuteri i vizuelna istrazivanja -- bit international 2 computers and visual research Magazine -- A New Perspective: Computers and Visual Research / Jerko Denegri -- The Aesthetics for Computer Art / Hiroshi Kawano -- The Digital Computer as a Creative Medium / A. Michael Noll -- Computer Graphics and Visual Complexity / Georg Nees -- bit international 3 internacionalni kolokvij kompjuteri i vizuelna istrazivanja, zagreb, 3-4 kolovoz 1968 -- bit international 3 international colloquy computers and visual research, zagreb, august 3-4 1968 Magazine -- 1969 -- tendencije 4 nove tendencije 4 -- tendencies 4. new tendencies 4 Exhibition -- tendencije 4 / tendencies 4 / Anonymous -- New Tendencies 4 / Radoslav Putar -- nove tendencije 1 -- A Surprising Coincidence / Almir Mavignier -- tendencije 4 kompjuteri i vizuelna istrazivanja -- tendencies 4. computers and visual research Exhibition -- Computers and Visual Research / Boris Kelemen -- Program Information 13 -- tendencije 4 / tendencies 4 -- Art as a Function of Subject, Cognition, and Time / Vladimir Bonacic -- Compos 68 (J. B. Bedaux, J. Clausman, A. Veen) "Definitions..." -- SYSPOT / Horst Wegscheider -- tendencije 4 typoezija / tendencies 4. typoezija Exhibition -- Typoezija / Zelimir Koscevic -- tendencije 4 "Kompjuteri i vizuelna istrazivanja" -- tendencies 4. "Computers and Visual Research" Symposium -- Today's Research and Tomorrow's Society / Vera Horvat-Pintaric -- Psychological Aspects of Man-Computer Relations / Martin Krampen -- Untitled / Umberto Eco -- Producing Art with the Computer / Karl Gerstner -- Zagreb Manifesto / G. Metzger -- [Untitled] / Gustav Metzger -- Computers and Human Research: Programming and Self-Management of Form / Laura Mosso -- The Philosophy of Visual Research / Kurd Alsleben -- Social Aspects of Computer Art / Herbert W. Franke -- On the Interpretation of Programmed Art / Josef Hlavacek -- For ARC: Cybernetics Proposal / Gary Rice -- bit international 4 dizajn -- bit international 4 design Magazine -- Science and Design / Gui Bonsiepe -- bit international 5/6 oslikovljena rijec. konkretna poezija -- bit international 5/6 the word image. poesie concrete Magazine -- First Croatian Literary Texts Computer-Processed / Zeljko Bujas -- 1971 -- "Umjetnost i kompjuteri 71" / "Art and Computers 71" Colloquy -- The Computer as a Medium / Jonathan Benthall -- There Should Be No Computer Art / Frieder Nake -- 1971-1972 -- bit international 7 dijalog sa strojem -- bit international 7 dialogue with the machine Magazine -- bit international 8/9 televizija danas: televizija i kultura -- jezik televizije -- eksperimenti -- bit international 8/9 television today: television and culture -- the language of television -- experiments Magazine -- 1973 -- tendencije 5 konstruktivna vizuelna istrazivanja. kompjuterska vizuelna istrazivanja. konceptualna umjetnost -- tendencies 5. constructive visual research. computer visual research. conceptual art Exhibition -- t-5 / Radoslav Putar -- Computer Visual Research / Boris Kelemen -- Conceptual Art / Marijan Susovski -- tendencije 5 "Racionalno i iracionalno u vizualnim istrazivanjima danas" -- tendencies 5. "The Rational and Irrational in Visual Research Today. Match of Ideas" Symposium -- Computer Art and the Construction of an Art Computer in Terms of Experimental Computer Science / Oskar Beckman -- A Proposal for an Interactive Program Exhibit / Edward Zajec -- S Expressions / Patrick Greussay -- 1978 -- tendencije 6 "Umjetnost i drustvo" -- tendencies 6. "Art and Society" Symposium -- t-6 = "Art and Society," Invitation / Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti -- Appendix -- The International Artists' Movement New Tendencies in Zagreb: A Timeline / Margit Rosen
Summary:
"This is a source book chronologically documenting the exhibitions, symposia, and publications of the New Tendencies from 1961 to 1978. It features letters, minutes of meetings, essays that appeared in catalogs and the magazine Bit international, transcriptions of audio recordings, photographs of exhibitions, conferences, and works, a timeline, statistics that show which artists participated when in the New Tendencies exhibitions, a bibliography, and biographical notes"--P. 12.
