Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)

1989

Image World at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Exhibition · Europe · Women Artists

The front cover of the Whitney Museum's Image World: Art and Media Culture catalogue, a duotone photograph of a Times Square block of cinema marquees with the title set in coloured letters across it.
The front cover of the Whitney Museum's Image World: Art and Media Culture catalogue, a duotone photograph of a Times Square block of cinema marquees with the title set in coloured letters across it. Cover of Marvin Heiferman, Lisa Phillips and John G. Hanhardt, Image World: Art and Media Culture (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989). Internet Archive.

This influential exhibition, which is accompanied by essays by Marvin Heiferman, Lisa Phillips and John G. Hanhardt, captures the essence of the “Image World.” The exhibition’s diverse perspectives offer a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic relationship between art and media at a pivotal moment in cultural history, from Heiferman’s examination of media omnipresence to Phillips' exploration of art within evolving media landscapes and Hanhardt’s investigation into the role of film and video in the television era.

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

Sources

People

John G. Hanhardt, Lisa Phillips, Marvin Heiferman

Movements

digital art

Filed under

Ideas
curation, digital art, film, image culture, Mass Media Art, video art
Technologies
television, video
People
John G. Hanhardt, Lisa Phillips, Marvin Heiferman
Exhibitions
Image World: Art and Media Culture
Organisations
Whitney Museum of American Art
Places
New York

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