The exhibition, which took place in 1970 at the Jewish Museum in New York, was the first public presentation of the symbiosis of conceptual and media art with the new technologies developed for the American military. The main attraction of the exhibition is the installation "Life In A Computerized Environment. Seek" by M.I.T. In a cybernetic world model, a computer system (order) operated with a family of 25 Mongolian gerbils (chaos). The computer should make the chaos calculable. In 2007 Dammbeck and helpers reconstructed the installation from 1970.
Icons & Media Art
29min
16+
DE
While researching for the film Das Netz, Lutz Dammbeck came across the exhibition "Software. Information technology: its new meaning for art".
The exhibition, which took place in 1970 at the Jewish Museum in New York, was the first public presentation of the symbiosis of conceptual and media art with the new technologies developed for the American military. The main attraction of the exhibition is the installation "Life In A Computerized Environment. Seek" by M.I.T. In a cybernetic world model, a computer system (order) operated with a family of 25 Mongolian gerbils (chaos). The computer should make the chaos calculable. In 2007 Dammbeck and helpers reconstructed the installation from 1970.