Jasia Reichardt is a British art critic, curator, art gallery director, teacher and prolific writer, specialist in the emergence of computer art. In 1968 she was curator of the landmark Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. She is generally known for her work on experimental art. After the deaths of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson she catalogued their archive and looks after their legacy.
Reichardt in 2022
Cover of the 1930's magazine Małe pisemko, drawing by Maryla Weinles-Chaykin.
Jews praying on Yom Kippur by Jakub Weinles. In the collection of the Warsaw National Museum.
Computer art is art in which computers play a role in the production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, video game, website, algorithm, performance or gallery installation. Many traditional disciplines are now integrating digital technologies and, as a result, the lines between traditional works of art and new media works created using computers has been blurred. For instance, an artist may combine traditional painting with algorithm art and other digital techniques. As a result, defining computer art by its end product can thus be difficult. Computer art is bound to change over time since changes in technology and software directly affect what is possible.
Desmond Paul Henry, picture by Drawing Machine 1, c. 1962
A computer-generated fractal landscape
A robotic brush head painting on a canvas
A photo of Jimmy Wales rendered in the style of The Scream using neural style transfer