Description
Tyler Hobbs’ debut monograph is one of the first to focus on the work of a generative artist. Order/Disorder contextualises Hobbs’ groundbreaking art from 2018-2023 and includes works from his 2023 solo exhibitions at Unit, London, and Pace, New York.
Tyler Hobbs’ debut monograph is one of the first to focus on the work of a generative artist. Contextualising his art from 2018-2023, Order/Disorder includes works from Hobbs’ solo exhibitions at Unit, London, and Pace, New York, in 2023.
Structured around the concept of dualities, the book explores Hobbs’ systematic approaches to artmaking, the creative relationship between man and machine, computer-led aesthetics and the interplay of repetition and emergence across longform generative projects.
Order/Disorder features an interview between Hobbs and Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, and an essay by Melanie Lenz, curator of digital art at the Victoria & Albert Museum, alongside texts by the artist that introduce each thematically arranged section of plates.
Tyler Hobbs (b. 1987) is a visual artist from Austin, Texas. His work focuses on computational aesthetics, how they are shaped by the biases of modern computer hardware and software, and how they relate to and interact with the natural world around us. Hobbs' project Fidenza, a series of 999 algorithmically generated works, is one of the most sought-after fine art NFT collections of all time. His solo exhibitions include Mechanical Hand (2023) at Unit, London, UK; QQL: Analogs (2023) at Pace, New York; Incomplete Control (2021) at Bright Moments, New York; and Progress (2018) at Galería Dos Topos, León, Mexico.
Melanie Lenz is the curator of digital art at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where she cocurated the exhibition Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers (2018), convened the symposium Art, Design and New Technologies for HEALTH (2015) and curated the exhibition Transformations: Digital Prints from the V&A (2012). Lenz has published papers on early Argentine computer art (2018); women, art and technology (2014); and collecting and conserving born digital art (2011). She is a guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London, and has broadcast widely on creative arts and advanced technologies.
Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is an art curator, critic and historian who is artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the curator of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He has curated over 300 exhibitions since his first, World Soup: The Kitchen Show in 1991. He received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence (2011) and the International Folkwang Prize (2015) for his commitment to the arts. Obrist's publications include Mondialité, Ways of Curating, and Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects.
