Vera Molnar, and everyone who came after.
Degrees of Disruption: Vera Molnar and Generative Art opened Friday at the @V_and_A in London, a free display of more than 50 works through May 30, 2027. Her plotter drawings, from Interruptions (1969) to (Des)Ordres (1974), sit beside eight contemporary generative artists including Casey Reas (@REAS), Licia He (@Licia_He), William Mapan (@williamapan), Zach Lieberman (@zachlieberman) and Matt DesLauriers (@mattdesl), whose Meridian #870 is on the wall. Vetro Editions (@VetroEditions) says two Meridian editions are now in the museum's permanent collection. "Feels very special to have my work exhibited and shown alongside hers," DesLauriers wrote.
A power station full of experiments.
Somerset House's (@SomersetHouse) 3 Evenings runs through Sunday at the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in London, with world premieres of new interactive installations. Ayoung Kim debuts a playable game that expands Delivery Dancer, her series about two delivery drivers run by an AI algorithm called Dancemaster. Xin Liu's (@xin_liu_studio) nom nom grows a world of millions of particles across an LED surface from Neural Cellular Automata, and Keiken's (@_keiken_) Liquid Perception uses light sensors, headphones and haptics for non-verbal communication. Friday's sold-out night added live performances by Gazelle Twin, Lawrence Lek (@Sinofuturism) and Jenkin van Zyl.
A whole website, on Bitcoin.
EP (@E_Pieraccini_), the Tuscan artist Elia Pieraccini, has inscribed his personal website as inscription 127625647 and calls it the first artist website inscribed entirely on-chain on Bitcoin. Built with parent-child inscriptions and recursion, the archive picks up every new artwork, collector and collection on its own, and he can update the site by inscribing a new "engine" on a single sat that it always reads. "This archive will serve future generations," he wrote.
Tonight in Charleston: ApeFest.
The one-day @BoredApeYC gathering from Yuga Labs (@yugalabs) takes over Beeple Studios, the space of Beeple (@beeple), in South Carolina, with registration at 6 PM, doors at 7 and the night running to midnight ET. Around it, holders have filled the weekend with meetups, from Thursday's bowling night to Sunday's ApeGames.
New on http://catalogue.gallery: Demon Ego (@demonegoo) brought STUPIDS REDUX to @verse_works with HEX ENDUCTION (@HEXEN_DUCTION), 5 scripted short videos for "the monsterized uglies," the ones judged ugly and pushed aside.
Two found homes in 24-hour auctions, and every bidder gets a gift episode. And a history: in 1963 Siemens mathematician Georg Nees helped buy a plotter meant for technical drawings, then gave in to "the great temptation" to draw "useless" geometric patterns, shown in Stuttgart in February 1965 among the first exhibitions of computer graphics.
Ahead: On Wed Oct 21 in London, the Computer Arts Society (@computerartssoc) opens Oracle Machines at BCS Moorgate, curated by Geoff Davis, on humans, machines and the wish for answers: Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA chatbot beside work by Auriea Harvey, Mario Klingemann (@quasimondo), Sasha Stiles (@sashastiles) and Suzanne Treister.
Through Dec 8.