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  • The exhibition Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms at Toledo Museum of Art covers the history of computer and generative art from its embryonic stages in the 1960s to the AI-generated masterpieces of the present day.
  • For many of the contemporary artists in the show, this represents their first exhibition in a major US museum.
  • Toledo Museum of Art has shown a commitment to digital art, most recently through its purchase of Abyssinian Queen by Yatreda with cryptocurrency.

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Toledo Museum of Art, an institution renowned for its forward-thinking policies, is organizing the show Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms, an exhibition that intends to investigate how pioneering artists applied rules-based systems and automation to the visual arts. Organized by Julia Kaganskiy, an independent curator who specializes in digital art and new media, the exhibition covers the history of computer and generative art, following its developmental trajectory from its embryonic stages in the 1960s to the AI-generated masterpieces of the present day.

Visitors to the exhibition will have the opportunity to see the work of 24 artists, including the hand-drawn geometric abstractions of Josef Albers (1888-1976) and Véra Molnár (1924-2023), alongside more recent works by Sarah Meyohas and Casey Reas. By setting the works of these artists side by side, Kaganskiy did not just aim at providing a historical overview of computer and generative art; instead, she distills from them the common strategies that are shared across the six decades that this exhibition spans: approaches to structure, repetition and chance, which bind these artists and their creative output into a coherent segment in art history.

A series of concentric squares of varying density, giving the effect that they extend into infinity.
Vera Molnar, De La Serie (Des) Ordres (detail), 1974. Courtesy of The Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection.

For the Toledo Museum of Art, which has shown its commitment to fostering and supporting the cause of digital art – most recently with its purchase of Abyssinian Queen by Yatreda with cryptocurrency – the opening of Infinite Images represents a turning point in its curatorial policy. For artists such as 0xDeafbeef, Tyler Hobbs, Zach Lieberman, Entangled Others, Operator, Quayola, Anna Ridler, Monica Rizzoli, Snowfro, Sam Spratt and Emily Xie, Infinite Images represents their first exhibition in a major US museum.

Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms takes visitors on a journey through the history of digital and generative art in four chapters (The Imaginary Machine, Chance and Control, Digital Materiality, Coded Nature). The show opens on July 12, 2025. More information about this and other events at Toledo Museum of Art can be found on its site.

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