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

1989

Magiciens de la Terre at the Centre Georges Pompidou

Exhibition · Europe

Magiciens de la Terre at the Centre Georges Pompidou
Jean-Pierre Dalbera. Flickr. “Les magiciens de la terre, retour sur une exposition légendaire (Centre Pompidou).” 2014. flickr.com

This important Centre Georges Pompidou exhibition highlighted global inequalities within the contemporary art world, with curator Jean-Hubert Martin featuring half the work of Western and half non-Western artists. The show highlights in our story mass-media art’s rise throughout the 1980s as well as the increasingly globalized and interconnected nature of art, which would only be accelerated in future decades as the Internet popularized.

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

Sources

People

Jean-Hubert Martin

Movements

Mass Media Art

Filed under

Ideas
curation, geopolitics, globalization, inclusivity, Mass Media Art, postcolonialism
Technologies
Internet
People
Jean-Hubert Martin
Exhibitions
Magiciens de la Terre
Organisations
Centre Pompidou
Places
France, Paris

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