Information

An art-historical reassessment of information-based art and exhibition curation, from 1960s conceptualism to current digital and network-based practices. This anthology provides the first art-historical reassessment of information-based art in relation to data structures and exhibition curation. It examines landmark exhibitions such as “Information” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1970, and “Les Immatériaux,” initiated by philosopher Jean-François Lyotard at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 1984. It reexamines work by artists of the 1960s to early 1980s, including Les Levine, N. E. Thing Co., General Idea, and Jenny Holzer, whose insights into information's significance resonate today. It also highlights technologically critical artworks that circulated within new media festivals. Artists have questioned the boundaries between “information,” signals, and data, exploring information's materiality, immateriality, embodiment, overload, misinformation potential, and post-digital unruliness.