The AARON Retrospective: Harold Cohen
Gazelli Art House marks their worldwide representation of the Harold Cohen Estate by announcing the UK’s first AARON-focused solo exhibition.
“Many of the things we see computer programs doing today would have been regarded as impossible a couple of decades ago; AARON is surely one of them.”
— Harold Cohen, 1999
Moving through the 1970s until the artist’s passing in 2016, displayed works will elucidate the ways in which Cohen both noticed and navigated evolving spaces of artistic possibility through the world’s first example of Meta-Art. The retrospective celebrates Cohen’s appreciation of abstract sensibility, mathematical discipline, and creativity as arising once “the individual starts to question the unquestioned assumptions of his field.”
Now, AI technology is almost inseparable from our everyday lives, subconsciously driving many of our actions with once unthinkable sophistication. AI’s understanding of human complexity has been a vast project, with the early work of Cohen and his peers playing a crucial role in its evolution. Thus, The AARON Retrospective serves as a lens through which to recognise how artists of Cohen’s era laid the necessary foundations for our contemporary AI landscape.
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LA Times | Harold Cohen
Art critic Christopher Knight writes on LACMA's current exhibition, Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982, highlighting Harold Cohen, a pioneer of computer art.Read more -
Harold Cohen at LACMA
Represented artist Harold Cohen, the forefather of Computer Art, is currently part of a major group exhibition at LACMA, curated by Leslie Jones. Coded: Art...Read more
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Outland Art | Harold Cohen
Outland Art writes an inspiring review of Harold Cohen's AARON Retrospective and it's relation to contemporary AI landscape.Read more -
Studio International | The AARON Retrospective
Catherine Mason (Art Historian, author, and curator specialist in Computer Art) wrote a brilliant review of Harold Cohen's exhibition at Gazelli Art House.Read more
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FAD Magazine | Top 5 Exhibitions to see in November
Tabish Khan (Art critic for FAD & Londonist) picks Harold Cohen's The AARON Retrospective as the top 5 exhibitions to see in November. He says:...Read more -
Seisma Magazine | Harold Cohen
Paul Carey-Kent delves into the collaboration and innovation of Harold Cohen's AARON and questions, 'Who's the creator?'Read more
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Tuesday Talk: The History of Computer Art vs Digital Art Now
Gazelli Art House hosts a panel discussion on The History of Computer Art vs Digital Art Now on 25 October 2022. The talk coincides with...Read more -
The Art Newspaper | Legacy of Computer Art Pioneer Harold Cohen is rebooted in London show
The Art Newspaper's Managing Editor, Louis Jebb, reviews Harold Cohen's AARON Retrospective.Read more
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ArtNews | A New Retrospective of Computer Art Forefather Harold Cohen Showcases The Beginnings of Automated Art
Harold Cohen's AARON Retrospective recently was reviewed by ArtNews with an interview of Gazelli Art House's Founder, Mila Askarova.Read more -
Artnet | Harold Cohen’s AARON Retrospective part of Artnet’s 10 Must-See London Gallery Shows During Frieze Week
Jo Lawson-Tancred features Harold Cohen's AARON Retrospective as one of the 10 must-see London gallery shows during Frieze week.Read more