Fine Art Advisory and Appraisal
DOWNTOWN DIGITAL: NYC 1980S-1990S
Mon, Jun 24
|JY&A, Upper East Side, New York, NY, USA
[I] Carter Hodgkin: Random Access Memory
Time & Location
Jun 24, 2019, 12:00 AM EDT – Aug 15, 2019, 11:59 AM EDT
JY&A, Upper East Side, New York, NY, USA
About
Curated by: Xiaoying Juliette Yuan
Today, when our society is trying to imagine the potential impact of AI technology on our future, JY&A invites you to travel back to the New York of the ’80s and ’90s to discover a selection of early works created by the first generation of artists involved in the intersection of art and technology. The transition of analog-to-digital and these artists' early practices incorporating a digital language into their work, forms an intriguing dialogue with today's artists who utilize cutting-edge technologies and reference the Internet.
Downtown Digital: NYC 1980s-1990s, online exclusively on Artsy.net, focuses on selected archived works from New York-based pioneer artists. Mainly works on paper, paintings, and prints, these archives contain the artists' early explorations with cutting-edge technology in a fine arts practice. The ideas that were born in these archives were subsequently developed into paintings, sculptures, and interactive installations of various sizes…