ART-REVIEW:Coding The World

As part of “Mutations/Créations”, the exhibition “Coding The world” is part of Centre Pompidou annual program that explores the links between art, science, engineering and innovation. Looking back at the history of the digital code and algorithms and the way artists have used it since the computer appeared in the 1960s through artworks, timelines, installations and screenings, tracing over a period of 40 years the key moments in the emergence of a digital culture that has today become a taken-for-granted part of everyday life. The exhibition reveals a shared aesthetic and critical world that questions our daily lives, now entirely dependent on digital logic, like Troika’s most recent dice works “Life and Death of an Algorithm” (2017) a logically-derived composition using dice showing only 1’s or 6’s. “Coding The World” documents another universe linked to digital formalization, the world constituted of pixels and voxels (the voxel represents a value on a regular grid in three-dimensional space).–Dimitris Lempesis

Info: Curator: Frédéric Migayrou and Camille Lenglois, Centre George Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou, Paris, Duration: 15/6-27/8/18, Days & Hours: Daily 11:00-21:00 (Thu 11:00-23:00 only exhibitions on level 6), www.centrepompidou.fr