Computer Worlds
Exhibition
September 24, 2026 – February 14, 2027
Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum Project, Shanghai
Press release
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Created entirely from Centre Pompidou's collections, “Computer Worlds” retraces the history of digital creation from the 1950s to the present day. This group exhibition, at the intersection of artistic disciplines, showcases pioneering works by the founders of digital art along with the most cutting-edge contemporary creations.
Since the second half of the 20th century, artists, designers and architects have constantly adopted technological tools, subverted their uses and expanded their potential through innovative, critical and experimental approaches. From the emergence of cybernetics in the 1950s to recent developments around artificial intelligence and NFTs, the exhibition explores the never-ending history of connections between art and technology.
Through nearly 180 works – digital and graphic pieces, installations, architectural models and design objects – and archival documents, “Computer Worlds” offers ways to interpret the relationship between art and technology. It sheds light on the artistic potential of computers and gives a voice to artists who draw on contemporary developments such as AI, simulation, living things and networks with an innovative and critical lens.
The exhibition is part of an intersectional narrative combining new media, design and architecture, created from the multidisciplinary and prospective collection of Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne. It fosters dialogue between major works in the collection (Herbert Franke, Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar, members of the Vincennes Art and Computer Science Group, etc.) and more recent acquisitions (Cory Arcangel, Kourosh Asgar-Irani, Agnieszka Kurant, Neri Oxman, Mika Tajima, Lu Yang, etc.) as well as rare archival documents that retrace the creative process of leading artists and designers (Vera Molnar, Ettore Sottsass, etc.).
Curated by
Philippe Bettinelli, Curator in Chief, New Media Collection, Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou
Camille Lenglois, Assistant Curator, Industrial Creation Department, Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou
Olivier Zeitoun, Assistant Curator, Design and Industrial Prospective Department, Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou
Victor Guégan, Associate Curator, Head of the Artist’s Book Collection at Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Musée national d'art moderne
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Communiqué de presse - Computer Worlds
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Press release - Computer Worlds
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Press officer:
Mia Fierberg
mia.fierberg@centrepompidou.fr
Communications and Digital Media Department
Director
Geneviève Paire
Head of the press unit
Dorothée Mireux
