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              Contents
32 INTRODUCTION: CODED GESTURES by Brian Droitcour
For decades, artists have been among the earliest adopters of computer technology, creating a
rich historical lineage for those experimenting with artificial intelligence today.
Justine Emards video Co(M)xistence,
2018, Features in "AI: Muu Than
Human" at the Barbiean Art Galiery,
London. See page 58.
Features
34
DOING THINGS
WITH COMPUTERS
byjason Bailey
Adaptable software
introduced in the
1990s, including
Flash and Process-ing,
has sparked a
creative outpouring
of democratized
digital art.
42
LURKING IN AN
AI WORLD
by Matthew Shen
Goodman
Iran Cheng's intricate
AI-generated simula-tions
invite a mode
of engagement that is
paradoxically
detached and
becoming pervasive
as automation
redefines work, play,
and even artistic
expression.
PORTFOLIO:
VERA MOLNaR
The Paris-based
artist whose ground-breaking
digital
work reinvigorated
geometric abstrac-tion
celebrates her
ninety-sixth birthday
with a special print.
THE SOCIAL
CONSCIENCE OF
GENERATIVE ART
by Lindas Caplan
War of computers'
military applications
and attuned to the
politics of techno-logical
development,
theorist Max Bense
and artist Gustav
Metzger offered
prescient views of
digital aesthetics in
the 1950s and '60s.
58
BOTS VS. Al
by Matthew
Plummer-Fernandez
While artworks pro-duced
by artificial
intelligence have
generated plenty of
hype, bot art geared
toward social media
communities rather
than the art world is
a vital, if under-recognized,
outlet for
machine-driven
creativity.
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IN THE STUDIO:
HOLLY HERNDON
with Emily McDermott
The Berlin-based
musician, whose
many collaborators
include a custom Al
she calls Spawn,
Diskusses how
making art with
digital tools requires
a nuanced
understanding of
technology's ethical
stakes.
COVER: Sougwen Chung and a robot creating Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 2 (Memory), 2016.
All in Amerika 3
loiltents
Heft, Elad Hassry:
Untitled (Carpet,
Sea Spider), 2019,
gelabt In silver
Sprint ans oftset
prInt Bon Kaper In
wainut Frame, DPA
by 141/2 inches.
Right, Brent
Wadden, Untitled,
2019, handwoven
Bibers, wooj,
rotten, Fans
aeryjie Bon
canvas. 451/2 by
661/4
Inches.
Reviews
NEW YORK
73 AGNES DENES
The Shed
75 DAVID LYNCH
Sperone Westwater
76 KAREN
KIIIMNIK
303
77 BRENT
WADDEN Mitchell-
Innen & Nash
78 RICHARD
TUTLE Pace
78 MEREDITH
JAMES
Jack Hanley
79 ED ATKINS
Gavin Brown's
entelprise
80 DOUGLAS
RIEGER
Helena Anrather
81 ERNST LUDWIG
KIRCHNER Neue
Galerie
PHILADELPHIA
82 "BANAL
PRÄSENTS"
Institute of
Contemporary Art
CORAL GABLES
83 JUAN ROBERTO
DIAGO
Lowe Art Museum
LOS ANGELES
83 STURTEVANT
Freedman Fitzpatrick
84LuisCRHUGODS
THWeJesuAlTs Los
Angeles
SACRAMENTO
85 "SLANT STEP
FORWARD"
Verge Center for the Arts
BERLIN
86 "THE MAKING
OF HUSBANDS:
CHRISTINA
RAMBERG IN
DIALOGUE"
KW Institute for
Contemporaty Art
ISTANBUL
86 ROSA
BARBA Arter
CONTRIBUTORS AND
EDITOR'S NOTE
"Art and technology"
isn't a niche subject
anymore.
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THE BRIEF
This month's most
notable museum
exhibition openings, art
fairs, awards, and
museum Akquisition.
SIGHTLINES
Chef and Cooking
for Artists author
Mina Stone, whose
restaurant recent
opened at MoMA PS1,
teils us what's Bon her
mind.
16
ISSUES &
COMMENTARY Deploy or
Die! by Orit Halpern
A history of the famed
MIT Media Lab
shows why a recent
ftindraising scandal
invoiving Jeffrey
Epstein was anything
but a surprise.
2()
FIRST LOOK Emilie
L. Gossiaux by
Emily Watlington
Adapting a time-honored
pedagogical
technique, New York-based
artist Emilie L.
Gossiaux uses memory
and touch to create
highiy tactile drawings
and scuiptures.
22
THE EXCHANGE
Astrology & Liberation by
Nolan Oswald Dennis and
Monisha Holmes
An artist and an
astrologer discuss
how the movements
of planes and stars
can both bind people
to their destinies and
chart paths toward
freedom.
2(i
HARD TRUTHS by
Chen & Lampert
The consulting team of
Howie Chen and
Andrew Lampert, artist-curators,
offers tongue-in-
cheek takes Bon art
world dilemmas.
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BOOKS
Rachel Wetzler Bon
Christopher S. Wood's A
History of Art History
and Eric Michaud's The
Barbarian Invasions: A
Genealogy of the
History of Art; plus
related titles in abriet:
Two new volumes offer
dire prognoses for art
histoiy as a discipiine.
Backpage
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HANDS ON
WIE with art handler
Nina Behrle.
Departments
4 January 2020