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London Zagreb Manifesto
In April 1969 the Computer Arts Society published with
Gustav Metzger as Editor PAGE. PAGE 1 drew the attention
to the events in Zagreb and on 5. May 1969 together with art
historian Jonathan Benthall
and Gordon Hyde he delivered
the "zagreb
manifesto" to the international symposium
"Computers and Visual Research" in Zagreb. They state:
"It is now evident that, where art meets science and
technology, the computer and related discipline provide
a nexus."
(Hyde, Gordon; Benthall, Jonathan; Metzger, Gustav. Zagreb Manifesto. Bit
international 7. Zagreb 1971 p.4 )
Benthall started 1969 a column about computer art in STUDIO
INTERNATIONAL
-Science and Technology in Art Today (1972)
"Disciples of Bense
and Moles believe that there is a Copernican
revolution round the corner, and that we skeptics will be proved
wrongly eventually"