At the heart of the exhibition, Networked, is the premiere of Quantum Tango (2025), Edmonds’ most ambitious networked artwork to date. The piece is structured as a real-time, interactive triptych, with each panel located in a different city: London (Gazelli Art House), Vancouver (SIGGRAPH), and Padua (San Gaetano Cultural Centre). The three locations are connected via live data and video streams, enabling participants in each city to shape — and be shaped by — the evolving composition across the network. Shifting colour bands, patterns, and photographic fragments taken by Edmonds in each city, blend algorithmic logic with live feedback from audience movement. Departing from the classical binary logic of earlier computational art, Quantum Tango draws on the uncertain, probabilistic principles of quantum logic, introducing a poetic openness to how the work unfolds. 

Ernest Edmonds (B. 1942) is a pioneer in the development of computational art. Ernest Edmonds’ work represents a prominent milestone in the fields of generative and interactive art. Underpinned by Concrete, Constructivist, and colour field artistic traditions, a focus on structures and interactions are vital to Edmonds’ practice. Specialising in creative computing, the artist’s research into human perception has shaped elementary computer-generated forms in arresting colours. Born in London, Edmonds studied Mathematics and Philosophy, and garnered a PhD in Logic. In his art-making Edmonds moved from oils and acrylics to his first use of a computer in 1968, going on to show his first computer-based interactive work with Stroud Cornock in 1970, his first networked piece in 1971, and his first generative time-based video, Fragment, in 1985. In 2017, Edmonds was awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art. He has exhibited across the world, from Moscow to London, Berlin, Washington DC, Rotterdam, Beijing and Sydney. In Rio de Janeiro, 2015, he exhibited with other pioneers, Harold Cohen, Frieder Nake and Paul Brown and in Venice, 2017, he was part of another major exhibition of pioneer computer artists with Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar, Frieder Nake and Roman Verotkso. Edmonds’ retrospective exhibitions include ones at Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, De Montfort University, Leicester and Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney. He has written many publications on computer art, human-computer interaction, and creativity.