| dc.description.abstract | Five international meetings of more than hundred artist and theoreticians of computer-based arts were held within the exhibition projects Tendencies 4 (1968 - 1969), Tendencies 5 (1973) and Tendencies 6 (1978) in Zagreb. The participants came from all sides of the world in peak of the Cold war. First two meetings in 1968 and 1969 hold the same title “Computers and visual research”, where most of the papers were published in Bit International magazine (9 issues, 1968 – 1973). Audio archive (restored in 2007) shows different presentations and statements than one in later published papers. The social dynamics of the discussions is only readable within the audio archives. The symposium ‘The Rational and Irrational in Contemporary Art’ (1973) was a unique place where participants from three artistic groups and accompanying theoreticians of concrete art and computergenerated art and conceptual art were engaged in an open dialogue that was, however, characterized by mutual misunderstanding. The reader published several papers and most of the abstracts but show little of the symposium’s real content. The social dynamics of the past meetings and discussions are partly reconstructable by comining research of written documents (if they exist) but always in comparation with video or audio archives or oral histories of witness of the autherntic experience. The text format shows as not sufficent for the re-crating the whole picture or at least its majority. Audio archive is found and restored in 2007, and same as previous three presented at the “bit international. [New] tendencies - Computers and Visual research” exhibition in Neue galerie, Graz, 2007 and ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2008 – 2009, curated by Darko Fritz. | |
