John F. Simon Jr. navigates through and discusses his interactive, web artwork "Unfolding Object" (2002), which was recently restored as part of the Guggenheim’s Conserving Computer-Based Art initiative. After Simon introduces the different behaviors and possibilities of "Unfolding Object," he elaborates on the work’s various influences.

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Associated News

• October 5, 2020
  Press Release - John F. Simon, Jr. “Drawing Air”


• June 8, 2019
  Paths and Loops: Automatic Drawings by John F. Simon, Jr.
  Hilliard Museum
  June 8 , 2019
  


• November 14, 2018
  John F. Simon Jr. Interacts with Unfolding Object, His Pioneering Web-Based Artwork
  Guggenheim Museum
  November 14, 2018
  


• November 8, 2018
  The Browser: At the Whitney, ‘Programmed’ Piquantly Draws Out Connections Between TV and the Internet
  ArtNews
  November 8, 2018
  Alex Greenberger
  


• September 28, 2018
  Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 Whitney Museum of American Art
  September 28, 2018
  


• November 2, 2016
  Why Pioneer Software Artist John F. Simon, Jr., Starts Every Day with Meditation and Drawing
  Tricycle.org
  November 2, 2016
  Melissa Shaw-Smith
  


• August 19, 2014
  John F. Simon, Jr.: Creative Process


• October 17, 2013
  ARTIST’S TALK: JOHN F. SIMON JR. POSTED ON OCTOBER 22, 2013 BY EXPERIMENT STATION