“Creativity – this particular example of creativity – lay in neither the programmer alone nor in the program alone, but in the dialog between program and programmer; a dialog resting upon the special and peculiarly intimate relationship that had grown up between us over the years.”
– Harold Cohen, Driving the Creative Machine (2010)
Gazelli Art House presents a solo booth dedicated to pioneering British artist Harold Cohen (1928–2016) at Zero 10 Basel 2026. Best known as the creator of AARON, one of the earliest autonomous systems for artmaking, Cohen first rose to prominence as a leading post-war painter, representing Great Britain at the 1966 Venice Biennale before turning toward computer-generated art in the late 1960s. Bringing together historical paintings, drawings, and live-running code systems, the booth offers audiences a rare opportunity to encounter AARON as Cohen intended: not as a historical artefact, but as a living studio collaborator operating in real time.
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