Dramatic era

After seeing the photographic images his German contemporary Heinrich Heidersberger created with experimental techniques, French artist Jean Cocteau wrote a letter to him in 1962 in which he said, "Let us admire, even if we don't understand". These words summarize the collective feelings of the audience at Creative Machine, a newly opened exhibition at the Taikang Art Museum in Beijing running until Feb 28.

The show gathers the work of major figures worldwide whose creations show how computer science, digital technology and artificial intelligence have influenced creativity over the past decades. Many are mathematicians and computer scientists who actively engage in art-making.

The exhibition traces the early days of computer-generated images to dazzlingly digital works by artists today — a mirror of the dramatic changes in science, art and society.

10 am-5:30 pm, closed on Mondays. Building 1, No 16 Yard, Jinghui Jie, Chaoyang district, Beijing. 010-6104-5886.