First Folio B 1965

Curator: Harold Cohen's "First Folio B" presents us with a rather curious combination of textures and colours, doesn't it? The piece resides in the Tate Collections, if you'd like to find it in person. Editor: Absolutely! I'm struck by the way the magenta battles with the greyscale, yet somehow it forms a playful sort of landscape. Curator: Cohen was deeply involved in artificial intelligence and aimed to create programs that could produce art autonomously. This piece really reflects his interest in that intersection between human creativity and algorithmic processes. Editor: I see what you mean. It's as if the magenta is the emotion, the underlying human element, struggling to find form amongst the mechanical gray. It’s quite moving, actually. Curator: It’s fascinating how his work anticipated so much of our current digital art landscape. Editor: It does make you wonder what the future holds, doesn't it? Perhaps we are all destined to become part of a giant algorithm!