Stephen Willats features in the LACMA exhibition Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982

The exhibition (12 February–2 July 2023) explores how the rise of computer technology, together with its emergence in popular consciousness, impacted the making of art in the age of the mainframe.

 

International and interdisciplinary in scope, Coded examines the origins of what we now call digital art, featuring artists, writers, musicians, choreographers, and filmmakers working directly with computers as well as those using algorithms and other systems to produce their work. 

 

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Image: Stephen Willats, What Made Me Like I Am, 1978

Photographic print on aluminium
108.5 x 80 cm
42 3/4 x 31 1/2 in
© Stephen Willats
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro
February 12 2023