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The Toledo Museum of Art is opening Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms on July 12, and the curatorial framing matters more than the artwork list.
Julia Kaganskiy is hanging Josef Albers' Homage to the Square (1965) next to Vera Molnár's Interruptions (1968), made on one of the earliest computer-controlled drawing machines. Then she's walking the viewer through CryptoPunks, Autoglyphs, Chromie Squiggles, Ringers, and into Operator and Emily Xie — their first museum showings.
The loan is from Alan Howard, the hedge fund manager who owns the $43 million Monet previously belonging to Imelda Marcos and has been quietly building one of the most significant private collections of generative art anywhere. His framing: "Digital art continues this lineage, not in competition with traditional media, but in dialogue with it."
What makes Toledo different from the Whitney's Programmed (1965-2018) or MoMA's Thinking Machines (1959-1989) is that those shows stopped before blockchain happened. This one doesn't. It opens in nine days and runs through November 30.
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