Darko Fritz: Analogue and Digital Vector Art in the New Tendencies (1961-1973)

Dot and line are building blocks of a visual language since the very beginning of drawings made by humans. Today this vocabulary may be translated into ‘pixel’ and ‘vector’ resulting into raster or vector images. Lecture examines the histories of hand-made, electronic and digital vector art within the international art network the New Tendencies from 1961 to 1973. NT started as an international exhibition of in Zagreb 1961 presenting analogue instruction-based, algorithmic and generative art and developed into an international network of artist, critics, curators, art historians and gallery owners. In following editions NT inaugurated the participative art and arte programmata (nt2, 1963), immersive environments (nt3, 1965), visual research with computers (t4, 1968) and finally presenting both analogue and digital visual research next to conceptual art (t5,1973). (New) Tendencies amplified of the use of new technologies and new materials in art, through positive approach of using machines in in art process. N