In December 1971, Elena Asins (1940-2015) set foot in the Madrid Computing Center for the first time in 1966, a space where new technologies were used. computer science was put at the service of creation. There, among others, Eusebio Sempere or Jose Maria Lopez Yturralde.
Women were few. Apart from Asin, loneliness seville and two or three more. the point is they never came to improve their offering, he’s gone too. First to Stuttgart, where he had direct contact with real computers, and then to New York on a scholarship. There, he acquired great skill with these tools for three years. He later returned to Spain.
This journey will be discussed at conferences E.Artists from Lena Asins and the Computing Center. Conversations about a time and a contextThe howling of the wind is a tireless whistle in the exhibition, which runs from today to Thursday at the Alicante Museum of Contemporary Art (MACA).
Aramis López, art critic and author of the book University of Madrid Computing Center (1968-1973) next to you Jaime MunarrizHe is the coordinator of this program, which started today at 18:30 and started with discussion. mathematical method and geometric artists that being.
First step
“Elena Asins made the first works of this kind. in the 80s and between door pens and although the technology was not that advanced, it was able to do what it needed. Now there might be another way to do it, but ultimately it was about understanding. what are the machines forIt doesn’t replace you, it helps more and allows for creation,” emphasizes López.
“Elena, somehow, I felt how I wanted to create new forms., especially geometric, but he didn’t know how to put it into a language so machines could do it; So I talked to Capi and he Developed in the algorithm putting data into the computer that creates new forms, and with them Elena worked on sculpture, video and graphics».
Tomorrow, same time Aramis López and Jaime Munárriz they will present their books and “They will comment on how things are done in the Computing Center, which includes Sempere and Abel Martín.
it will be the last day Ignacio Gomez de Liano Who will talk to López about the most personal part of Asins. “Gómez de Liaño was his close friend and was with him until the end. I’ve visited him a lot at his home in recent years, we had a very close relationship.
If there’s one thing that sets him apart from other artists, it’snever needed to prove that he was the author of things. He wanted to do business and never cared about his writing. He thought that the important thing was to work, to produce intelligence and, above all, to create happiness for the world. I wanted you to pass art everyone can be happyI did it to give to people. It was like a gift,” says López.