Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 3: Analog Era (1950s)

1956

2nd Gutai Outdoor Exhibition in Ashiya Park

Exhibition · Japan

Children and other visitors draw on a large outdoor board covered with marks, watched by adults in Ashiya Park.
Yoshihara Jirō, Please Draw Freely, at the Outdoor Gutai Art Exhibition, Ashiya Park, July 27–August 5, 1956. Yoshihara Jirō. © The former members of the Gutai Art Association. Courtesy Museum of Osaka University. Photographer not identified in the source. Image source.

Following the first exhibition, the group continued to enhance audience participation. It even anticipated the communal drawing practices of the net art community. It was an additional important contribution by Gutai to the development of interactive art as well.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

Movements

Gutai, Participatory Art

Filed under

Ideas
audience participation, collective creation, community, Interactive Art, interactivity, net art, Participatory Art
Exhibitions
2nd Gutai Outdoor Exhibition
Organisations
Gutai, Gutai Art Association
Places
Ashiya, Japan

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