Computer Baroque: defining works in the history of digital moving image – an online exhibition curated by Richard Wright – animateprojects.org until 14 July 2009.

Animate Projects presents Computer Baroque, an online exhibition of films by pioneers of computer animation, hailing from the UK, US, Japan, France, Hungary, Australia and Canada. The programme includes works from the 1980s and 1990s, a period when artists undertook audacious experiments in technique. As curator Richard Wright says, “Artists wanted to push the computer as far as it would go, to create visual transformations that defied previous traditions, to blend image, music and text, and to apply scientific ideas as new sources of inspiration.”

The films range from earlier, technologically progressive works by Karl Sims and William Latham, to the more ironic and satirical works by Shelley Lake and the Butler Brothers. Programme notes and an essay by curator Richard Wright accompany the exhibition.