The Unabated Radicality of Information (1970) at MoMA
(During the first year of the pandemic, I received the curious invitation to write a review of an exhibition that happened fifty years ago as if it were happening today. Because that exhibition was one of the benchmarks in media art history, I was happy to take up the challenge. The review was originally published in Dutch in METROPOLIS M 3-2020. The Dutch article contains a few more images. I translated it with DeepL and checked it with Grammarly.)
Exactly 50 years ago today, on Sept. 20, 1970, was the last day of Information at the MoMA in New York, the still radical-looking exhibition that used dial-up poetry lines, audience surveys, and lots of documentary projects to bring a new genre of art to the museum: information-oriented, interactive, documentary and critical. Josephine Bosma writes about the significance of this milestone in exhibition history.
Information catalogue front