Computers come of age in ‘Coded’

By Suzan Filipek

Before smartphones and laptops, there were roomsized computers glowing with electronic wizardry. Their rise from use as elite military machines to everyday technology also gave birth to digital art. Learn more about this “overlooked” art form at the exhibit “Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982.”

The exhibit opens Sun., Feb. 12, at the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd.

It begins with 1952, the earliest time an aesthetic image

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Works by more than 75 artists will be on display.

“‘Coded’ brings to light early digital or computer art that has long been overlooked, recontextualizing it to encourage a new way of looking at mainstream art of the period,” said Leslie Jones, curator, prints and drawings at LACMA.

The exhibit ends July 2. •

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