computer graphic
brno: dum umení mesta brna, 1968. Saddle-stapled square 8vo with one staple in self covers printed in black throughout on white glossy stock. Unpaginated (16 pp. including covers). Text in Czech. Signed and dated by Jirí Valoch in blue ink at front cover.
Catalogue issued on the occasion of an early 1968 traveling computer art exhibition curated by Jirí Valoch when he was only twenty-two years old. With essays by Valoch, Max Bense, Frieder Nake, and Lubomir Sochor, and additional contributions by Charles Cusri, Leslie Mezei, Georg Nees, and Michael Noll. The exhibition began in Brno and then travelled to Jihlava and ended in Gottwaldov (now Zlín). This example signed and dated April 5, 1968, by Valoch at front cover.
At time of cataloguing, WorldCat locates only one holding in Europe. Rare.
Very good with rubbing to covers, rust to staple at middle of spine, and age toning throughout.
Ref. Rosen, Margit: ‘A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer’s Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961–1973,’ ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA / London, England 2011, p. 283. Item #1027
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