3.23.2010

About the ONO GENERATOR

ONO GENERATOR





Ono Generator

The Ono Generator takes words and phrases from Yoko Ono's 'Instruction Paintings'.
[Ono, Y. (1995) Instruction Paintings, New York, Weatherhill, Inc.]

They were exhibited at the Sogetsu Art Center, Tokyo, 1962.
The show consisted of instructions only, no paint.
It was an early example of Conceptual art.

The 'in-vacua machine' uses these words and phrases to write new instructions.

Each instruction is generated randomly.

Instructions do not usually repeat each other and never repeat Ono's.

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