Computer Sculpture - Artforum International
“It has already been demonstrated that the computer can assist the sculptor to some degree; in the future it may, in effect, come to collaborate with him.” Amid the current debate about AI-generated art, we’re revisiting the remarkably prescient 1969 essay “Computer Sculpture,” in which Robert Mallary—who abandoned his renowned career as an assemblagist after learning to code—elucidates the then-inchoate field of cybernetic art and predicts a world in which sculptors using computers will no longer be able to “pull out the plug.”SCULPTURE IS AN EXTREMELY PHYSICAL art dependent...
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