🚀 Frank J. Malina Book Launch
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Rocket launch celebration – July 17, 6 p.m. • Champagne reception
RCM Galerie
1950–1970 avant-garde art movements
Tuesday – Friday, 2:00 – 7:00 PM
RCM Galerie specializes in the transformative period of avant-garde post-war art which laid the foundation for much of contemporary creation. Run by Robert Murphy and Camille Frémontier-Murphy, its programme features many of the pioneers of the art-science movement.
It is also the world’s leading gallery for historical digital art (1960s-1980s). Its aim is to preserve the foundations of this often overlooked historical culture for future generations.
Exhibition
SCRATCHING THE SURFACE: DIGITAL PICTURES 1980S-2020s
Early Computer Art Movement
An exploration of computational processes in contemporary art, featuring interactive installations that examine how artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems can generate new forms of visual experience.
Legrady’s pioneering work bridges the gap between technology and artistic expression, creating immersive environments that respond to human presence and interaction.
Featured Artists
George Legrady
Interactive Media Art, Digital Art
Hungarian-American artist and researcher specializing in interactive digital installations. Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara and Guggenheim Fellow.
Pol Bury
Kinetic Art
Belgian kinetic artist known for mesmerizingly slow and erratic movements in sculpture. Pioneer who transitioned from Surrealism to kinetic art.
Ruth Leavitt
Computer Art, Algorithmic Drawing
Pioneer who developed computer programs for artistic deformation and transformation, editor of “Artist and Computer” (1976).
Vladimir Bonačić
Computer Art, New Tendencies Movement
Croatian pioneer of computer art and member of the New Tendencies movement. Created dynamic computer-controlled light installations in the late 1960s.
Herbert Franke
Computer Art, Generative Art
Austrian scientist and artist who pioneered computer graphics. His MONDRIAN program series generated abstract compositions based on mathematical algorithms.
Barbara Nessim
Computer Graphics, Digital Typography
American artist who pioneered the use of computers in fine art and commercial design from 1967, becoming one of the first women in computer-generated imagery.
Jean-Claude Marquette
Digital Art
French pioneer of digital art and computer graphics, part of the early generation of artists working with computers in the 1960s and 1970s.
Gallery Artists
David Saunders
Systems Art
Jeffrey Steele
Systematic Art
Joan Truckenbrod
Computer Graphics
Nahas & Huitric
Computer Graphics
Alexandre Vitkine
Digital Art
Vera Molnár
Algorithmic Art
Ronald Mallory
Kinetic Art
Terry Pope
Systems Art
Earl Reiback
Light Art
Visit Our Gallery
32 rue de Lille
75007 Paris, France
+33 1 40 15 00 23
info@rcmgalerie.com
Opening Hours
Tuesday – Friday: 2:00 – 7:00 PM
By appointment
About Our Specialization
We focus exclusively on the revolutionary art movements of 1950-1970, including kinetic art, early computer art, systems art, and algorithmic compositions.
This period represents the birth of technological art and the foundations of today’s digital creativity.