I’ve recently found myself getting pretty interested in how physical structures can be used to store information. It’s a concept that features heavily in everything form computer science to genetics and neurobiology, and its really an all around fascinating topic. As far as relating to our art blog goes, during my most recent session of internet browsing on the topic I discovered that one of the pioneers of video art based her first pieces on precisely this idea.
Beryl Korot, an artist (and Guggenheim Fellow), has been a leading figure in the field of video art since the early 1970s, and was co-editor of Radical Software (1970), the first publication to discuss extensively the possibilities of the new video technology as a medium for art. Among other things, her work tends to focus on exploring the structural relationship between the ancient technology of the loom and computer programming. Her most recent exhibit, Beryl Korot: Text/Weave/Line, Video 1977-2010 is currently running at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut.
Her most famous piece is Text and Commentary (1977), clips of which can be seen in the video interview below.
