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Listen, Scoundrels!
Sean Carroll
Listen, Scoundrels! uses AI to uncover radical voices from the Computer Arts Society archive, revisiting early debates about art, technology and power, and asking what they mean for us today.
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Listen, Scoundrels! is an exhibition of 20 prints and an accompanying book that revisit the radical history of computer art through the Computer Arts Society’s PAGE magazine. Using AI-assisted archival research, the exhibition brings together overlooked texts, images and historical debates in a series of typographic collages. The prints explore early artists’ concerns about technology, politics and power, while the book documents the research and curatorial process behind the exhibition.
About the project
# Listen, Scoundrels!
Listen, Scoundrels! revisits the radical beginnings of computer art through the pages of PAGE, the magazine of the Computer Arts Society.
Using artificial intelligence to explore the archive, the exhibition uncovers overlooked voices and critical debates about art, technology, politics and power. Its title comes from a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, placed on the cover of PAGE in 1970 by artist Gustav Metzger.
Through twenty collaged prints, historical texts are brought into new conversations, revealing how early computer artists questioned the military, industrial and institutional forces shaping technology.
The exhibition asks us to listen again to these voices and consider what their questions mean for our relationship with technology today.