‘Billboards 3 & 4’
Pushing the Envelope: An exhibition of mailed and correspondence art was coordinated by Lucy Helton, TNMOC's first artist-in-residence. The exhibition showcased work made by artists who either use or reference archaic technologies. The National Museum of Computing is located at Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing famously built his machine to crack the Enigma during WW2.
The museum also houses the world's first electronic computer, the Colossus, which Tommy Flowers spent eleven months designing and building at the Post Office Research Station in North West London. In reference to this, all the artworks were posted to the museum. The mailed artworks were hung through-out the galleries between, beside or over the machines themselves.
The exhibition featured work from the following artists:
- Antony Cairns
- Harry Gammer-Flitcroft
- Stewart Hardie
- Lucy Helton
- Qiana Mestrich
- Sarah Pickering
- Indianna Solnick
- Barry Stone
- Clare Strand
- Rahel Zoller & Louis Porter
- 99g's Artist Book Cooperative and invited artists