Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)
1969
Cross Talk Intermedia at the Yoyogi Gymnasium, Tokyo
This exhibition was an attempt to promote a dialogue between American and Japanese artists experimenting with technology and “intermedia.” It featured several artists associated with Jikken Kobo movement. Artists involved include Jikken Kobo memebers Yuasa Jōji and Kuniharu Akiyama, composer John Cage, experimental filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto and Stan Vanderbeek. The exhibition highlights the growing international nature of the art and technology avant-garde movement. It also highlights the impact of Jikken Kobo on the movements of the time.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
- Reynolds, Roger. Cross Talk Intermedia I. Newsletter RR-20. New York: Institute of Current World Affairs, 10 May 1969.
People
John Cage, Jōji Yuasa, Kuniharu Akiyama, Stan VanDerBeek, Toshio Matsumoto
Movements
computer art, generative art, Technology and Art
Filed under
- Ideas
- collaboration, film, generative art, intermedia, Technology and Art
- Technologies
- computer art
- People
- John Cage, Jōji Yuasa, Kuniharu Akiyama, Stan VanDerBeek, Toshio Matsumoto
- Works
- Art and Technology
- Exhibitions
- Cross Talk Intermedia
- Organisations
- Jikken Kobo, Yoyogi Gymnasium
- Places
- Japan, Tokyo, United States
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- 1997 · Cities on the move: Contemporary Asian Art at the turn of the 21st c., Vienna
- 1988 · First International Symposium on Electronic Art (FISEA) Held in Utrecht
- 2023 · SFMOMA Acquires First NFT
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