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There should be no Computer Art (1971)

Frieder Nake claimed there should be no “computer art” in 1971, criticising the use of computers to create art for the galleries

The discussion centers around the question “is it or is it not art?”, and is heated, often extremely ignorant and prejudiced, showing virtually no progress, highly repetitive, although the few interesting new methods and the little knowledge of computers that one needs have been published several years ago. Some reject the system of prizes and awards, disrupt big international exhibitions, organize themselves in cooperatives in order to be independent of the galleries, contribute to the building of an environment that people can Iive in. I find it very strange that, in this situation, outsiders from technology should begin to move into the world of art and try to save it with new methods of creation, old results, and by surrendering to the given “laws of the market” in a naive and ignorant manner.

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