The Advent of Digital Art

INTERNATIONAL AND interdisciplinary in scope, Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982 explores how the emergence of computer technology impacted art in the age of the mainframe. Coded, opening Feb. 12 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, examines the origins of digital art; it features artists, writers, musicians, choreographers and filmmakers working directly with computers or using algorithms and other systems. The artworks reflect the simultaneous wonder and alienation of the 1960s and ’70s—and the utopian and dystopian possibilities of the new machines. Coded’s examination of the advent of the personal computer, and the integration of digital technology in our lives, enriches our appreciation of art and culture in the age of the computer—then and now. 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 323.857.6000, lacma.org