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  • View of “From Counterculture to Cyberculture,” 2017. Clockwise from top right: Bruce Conner, Christ Casting Out the Legion of Devils, 2003; Lucy Dodd, Lady Long Gone, 2016; Dawn Kasper, UH yes, UH no, 2017; Jared Madere, To be titled (Matter Harmonic Topiary), 2017.

    View of “From Counterculture to Cyberculture,” 2017. Clockwise from top right: Bruce Conner, Christ Casting Out the Legion of Devils, 2003; Lucy Dodd, Lady Long Gone, 2016; Dawn Kasper, UH yes, UH no, 2017; Jared Madere, To be titled (Matter Harmonic Topiary), 2017.

    “From Counterculture to Cyberculture”

    Altman Siegel

    “From Counterculture to Cyberculture” took its title from Fred Turner’s influential 2006 book, which demonstrated the unexpected symbiosis between the Bay Area counterculture of the 1960s and the computer industry that emerged in nearby Silicon Valley over the same decade. Guest-curated by David Lewis and including nine artists represented by both his New York gallery and Altman Siegel, the exhibition engaged with the overlapping legacies of alternative DIY culture and digital utopianism. Coming on the heels of “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia,” a major survey of 1960s and ’70s art

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