Making the switch from paint to pixels

Just as conservative Irish collectors are warming to contemporary abstract art, along comes something even more challenging: computer-generated art. Or, as one wag described it, “the way to make art without dirtying your hands”.

The genre isn’t new: it made its gallery debut at London’s ICA in 1968 with Cybernetic Serendipity, a show that focused on works by artists exploring novel means to make art. I remember it well. It struck me as ...