CURATED: VICTOR ACEVEDO

Victor Acevedo is considered a desktop computer art pioneer, as he was an early adopter of personal computer software to create fine art in the early 1980s. Originally from Los Angeles, Acevedo studied Studio art (painting and drawing) and Art history at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (1977–1988), and then attended Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (1979–1981). He later taught at the School of Visual Art in New York (BFA and MFA Computer Art Departments, 1997–2008). He has shown his work in over 140 group and solo art exhibitions in the U.S. and Internationally since 1982.

Starting in 2007, considering the phenomenology of synesthesia and integrating real-time video-mix workflows into his audio-visual studio practice, Acevedo initially positioned himself inside the genre called visual Music. He later coined the term Electronic Visual Music (EVM) in 2013. This was to identify his motion graphic work more accurately in the digital domain. In recent years, participating in the NFT/Blockchain marketplace has been an integral part of his practice.

His work has been acquired (among others) by the Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, as part of the Patric Prince Digital Art Collection; the Museum der Stadt Gladbeck; and the Golden Plotter archives: Computer Kunst 1994 and 2006.

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Created in 1987, the ECTOPLASMIC KITCHEN SERIES was Victor Acevedo’s first important group of digital art images. The series was created with a software package called Artwork. This was a 2.5D Vector Graphics Software licensed by West End Film/Pansophic. 2.5D (Two and a half ‘D’, D=dimensions) means it supported mouse controlled, manipulation of on-picture-plane graphical objects within any implicate or explicate polygon domain toward convergent perspectival vanishing points. However, the software’s computer graphic capabilities would not be classed as that of a full 3D modeling system.
The original DOS-based image file was saved to a 5.25” floppy disk; usually written to a ‘Pansophic’ flavor of the PIC or Hex format. However, the NFT linked JPG files presented in this exhibition were produced from high-resolution scans of 35mm slides that were output via a 2K Matrix digital film recorder directly from the original computer files in 1987. The slide film was developed by the artist himself in a small dark room, after-hours at the business-to-business 35mm slide production service bureau, where he worked in the Spring of that year.

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Los Angeles-based artist Victor Acevedo is known as a desktop computer art pioneer. While life without computers is unimaginable for digital natives, life with computers was unimaginable and unfamiliar for past generations. The term computer art lasted until the 1990s, when it was replaced by the term digital art. Acevedo first encountered computer graphics in the 1980s. Before that, he was a painter. He wanted to be an oil painter like Van Gogh and Salvador Dalí. But it quickly became clear to him that he wanted to create pictures with digital tools and that this would become the new form of painting. 

In conversation with Anika Meier, Acevedo remembers how he came to computer art from painting, how computers changed the world and art, and how he brought cubism and photography together in his art.

DESKTOP COMPUTER ART AND GEOMETRY

VICTOR ACEVEDO: "THE WORLD BEGAN TO CHANGE"

The exhibition presents pioneers from different generations, early 1950s until today, working in the field of generative art. On view will be, among others, plotter drawings, generative photography, sculptures, and NFTs from 30 international artists. In collaboration with ELEMENTUM.ART.

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