Introduction
New Tendencies in Zagreb moves from concrete and optical art toward Computers and Visual Research, placing programs, information, scientific methods and viewers' perception at the center of artistic discussion. The series provides an early international institutional platform for computer art, extending the genealogy beyond individual inventions or isolated laboratories.
View full image ↗Catalogue photograph of bit international issues 1–6, including a combined issue. These publications belong to the New Tendencies network; they are not photographs of a single exhibition.
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Source · bit international 1-6 — Dimitrije Bašičević, 1968 | Ragnar Digital ↗RESEARCH ACCOUNT
A visual-research network turns towards computer experimentation.
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-02
Historical object and process
Research and publication material associated with ZKM situate New Tendencies in relations among Concrete, Constructivist, Op and Kinetic art rather than equating the movement with computing from its beginning. From 1968, computers, exhibitions, conferences and Bit International became connected, making Zagreb a meeting place for artists, engineers and scientists.
Section sources: A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer’s Arrival in Art
Significance and interpretive limits
The movement shifts attention from isolated inventions or Anglo-American laboratories towards transregional organisation and publishing. The node retains the movement’s span from 1961, while distinguishing when computers entered its exhibitions rather than labelling the entire period AI art.
Section sources: A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer’s Arrival in Art
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Date displayed for this node: 1961–1973 · Historical date recorded for the source: 1961–1973
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AI Art Genealogy Research Master · p. 7 · 015
Date as recorded: 1961–1973
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