Abstract
With the spread and increased accessibility of new communications channels in the mid-twentieth century, a variety of conceptual artists working in the United States began to explore the network structure of technological media. By the end of the 1960s, the notion of the information society had entered the social theoretical discourse, inspiring artists to experiment with public communications systems as avenues of creative expression and potential tools for critical engagement. This essay demonstrates how a number of American artists working around 1970 actively engaged the organizational dynamic of information technologies. It also discusses several landmark exhibitions that addressed these artistic developments, including INFORMATION (1970), curated by Kynaston McShine for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Jack Burham’s Software, Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art, held at the Jewish Museum in the same year.
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