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On April 16. 1970, 18 month after the closing of Cybernetic Serendipity,
and 10 month after the closing of tendencije
4, Frieder Nake
announced in PAGE 8: "I stop exhibiting for the present" As a reason he
gives: "It looks as if the capitalist art market is trying to get hold of
computer productions. This would mean a distraction from visual
research." And he concludes further: "the actual production in artistic
computer graphics is repeating itself to a great extent. Really good
ideas haven't shown up for quite a while." And one year later in
PAGE
18 he reinforced his opinion with an article "There should be no
computer art".
PAGE was the Bulletin of the new Computer Arts Society and was
founded in London shortly after Cybernetic Serendipity. Here on
the
one side a new Bulletin for computer art with Gustav Metzger as editor
started, emphasizing the atmosphere of the a new beginning in the arts,
on the other side one representative of the Stuttgart school of computer
art announces the end of his public activities, disappointed about the
unimaginativeness of computer arts and the lack of social responsibility
after the first experimental period.
Starting or end point of computer art?