My 1980s Micro Arts @microartsgroup appeared at Victoria & Albert Museum London, at inspiring Digital Art Hubs Nodes & Networks talk @V_and_A with curator Pita Arreola @pitarreola Zaiba Jabbar @ZaibaJabbar (HERVISIONS) author Catherine Mason @CathComputerArt (Computer Arts Society) @computerartssoc and designer James Stevens (Backspace SPC) @deckspace Photos are Piano Bar Red, with the print magazine; the panel in mid conversation; the Prestel teletext site and a data cassette, which I used for distribution back then, there was no web or even email. Piano Bar generative art @generativeart was released in a set of 6 programs on 'Various Unusual Events' cassette shown here - the code was converted to audio then played back into the micro computer (like on a modem). There was no music on the cassettes.

🧵In the 88th issue, we explored the Node to Node exhibition in Paris to gain insights into how the web3 landscape is being explored by pioneering figures in generative art, courtesy of @KateVassGalerie

The piece shown in the short clip above is 'Quadrate (Squares)' (1970) by @HerbertWFranke, shown below from the collection of Spalter Digital. "The computer offers other methods to generate complexity, namely with the random generator contained in every common programming language; in my computer-generated image QUADRATE (Squares), such a random generator was used, and so it is easy to indicate how complex the three occurring distributions are: those of the red, yellow and orange circles." - Herbert W. Franke, 1970s Full Text: art-meets-science.io/en/herb…

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In light of what is happening in the Middle East, I'm once again offering to produce a recommendation letter to any artist I've worked with through my gallery or Artcrush. This can help constitute your candidacy to benefit from the asylum status in France. I can do it for other visa programs outside of France too as long as you are in a situation justifying of becoming a refugee. I will respect your confidentiality on your situation of course and not talk about it publicly. I have done it for fellow Russian and Ukrainian artists who had reached out to me in the last couple of years, so if you are Soudanese, Yemeni, Somalian, Burkinabè, Birmanian, Israeli, Palestinian, Iranian, Afghan, Lebanese, Congolese, Nigerian, Lybian, Syrian, Kurdish, Armenian, Azerbadji, or other, feel free to reach out even If we didn't work together before (we can figure something out) I might not be the biggest authority to do so but getting recommended by an established art professional as an artist can go a long way, I don't take sides whatsoever, just want artists to be able to do art and help in any little way I can regardless of their origin, ethnicity, nationality sexual orientation, gender or political affiliation. Most Particularly, I can make recommendations letter to the Atelier des Artist en Exile, an NGO that aims to identify artists in exile of all origins and disciplines, to support them according to their situation and needs, to offer them workspace and to put them in contact with professionals (French and European networks), in order to provide them with the necessary means to restructure and continue their practice. My first show of WEB3 artists was made in collaboration with them so I have a great relationship with them.