Exhibition - Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 from 11:00am to 6:00pm
Los Angeles County Museum Of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
323-857-6000

Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982 explores how the rise of computer technology, together with its emergence in popular consciousness, impacted the making of art in the age of the mainframe. International and interdisciplinary in scope, Coded examines the origins of what we now call digital art, featuring artists, writers, musicians, choreographers, and filmmakers working directly with computers as well as those using algorithms and other systems to produce their work. Whether computer-generated or not, the many artworks considered here reflect the simultaneous wonder and alienation that was characteristic of the 1960s and ’70s, along with the utopian and dystopian possibilities of these new machines. Today, with digital technology having been fully integrated into our lives, Coded’s examination of the years leading up to the advent of the personal computer is relevant, even imperative, to fully appreciating art and culture in the age of the computer—both then and now.

Select a California town to find
the Best Things-To-Do and Places To Go around you
Los Angeles County
San Francisco County