Dmitri Cherniak on Strictly for Art

Dmitri Cherniak discusses his participation in the Toledo Museum of Art's group show Infinite Images and the growing presence of generative and code-based art in museums, in a conversation with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony). Cherniak says the popularity of generative art has grown by an order of magnitude, and that curators now see it as a line from Sol LeWitt and Constructivism to the present. He points to the 2019 Christiane Paul show Programmed at the Whitney as a major moment, and says blockchains let collectors engage with the software directly. He also describes automation as his artistic medium.