Cybernetic Serendipity - 2 August - 20 October 1968 ICA, London

‘Where in London could you take a hippy, a computer

programmer, a ten-year-old schoolboy and guarantee

that each would be perfectly happy for an hour without

you having to lift a finger to entertain them?’ 2 August

1968, Evening Standard

Cybernetic Serendipity, the landmark exhibition

curated by Jasia Reichardt in 1968, is being celebrated in

the Fox Reading Room with a display of documents,

installation photographs, press reviews, invitation cards

and publications

.

Attracting the attention of the national and

international press at the time, Cybernetic Serendipity

was the first international exhibition in the UK devoted to

the relationship between the arts and new technology

.

This groundbreaking exhibition, designed by Franciszka

Themerson, presented the work of over 130 participants

including composers, engineers, artists, mathematicians

and poets

. The exhibition ran from 2 August - 20

October 1968 and was seen by some 60,000 visitors.

 

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