Computer Art: Media Transformation through Electronics by CTG

This show by Computer Technique Group (CTG) was held at the Tokyo Gallery, Ginza Miyuki Avenue. The group exhibited Automatic Painting Machine No 1 for the first time, which helped to garner public attention in Japan and elsewhere for their work. Critic and Cybernetic Serendipity curator Jasia Reichardt “recognized that the images produced by CTG were not only different from those produced elsewhere, but were the “most imaginative,” according to Grant Taylor. CTG was seeking to transition the mechanical Lumino-Kinetic, participative art of the previous years, especially that of the Gutai group to the digital.