The Leipzig exhibition Dimensions. Digital Art since 1859 at Pittlerwerke from April 19 until July 9, 2023 featured 60 works by artists ranging from Peggy Ahwesh, Refik Anadol to Henri-Georges Clouzot, Ivana Franke, Nam June Paik, François Willème and Wu Ziyang, to mention just a few. Organized by the Foundation for Art and Culture (Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V. Bonn), the show was accompanied by the English and German bilingual catalogue Dimensions. Digital Art since 1859 (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de), edited by Richard Castelli, Walter Smerling and Dan Xu, and with contributions by seven authors.
Walter Smering, the chairman of the Foundation for Art and Culture, underlines that, since the beginnings of painting and drawing, which we know as the oldest cultural techniques there are, artists have always reacted to new creative media when they became available. Artists were mediators of decisive importance for the development of digital media for imaging. The exhibition and the catalogue examine the question of how new technologies and digital innovations…