{"data":{"id":"12273","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":12273,"topgoose_id":3533,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":12273,"title":"Color Panel v1.0","display_artist_text":"John F. Simon Jr.","display_date":"1999","accession_number":"99.88a-c","dimensions":"Overall: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 3 in. (34.3 × 26.7 × 7.6 cm)","medium":"Software, modified Apple Macintosh Powerbook 280c, and acrylic (plastic)","department":"collection","classification":"Digital Art","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"3/12","publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn F. Simon Jr., \u003cem\u003eColor Panel v1.0\u003c/em\u003e, 1999. Software, modified Apple Macintosh Powerbook 280c, and acrylic (plastic), overall: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 3 in. (34.3 × 26.7 × 7.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 99.88a-c. © 1999 John F. Simon Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eDisplayed on a flat-panel computer screen, \u003ci\u003eColor Panel v1.0\u003c/i\u003e is an artwork in the form of a computer program. The software, which John Simon wrote himself, “controls the screen, draws the composition, picks the colors, moves the colors,” producing constantly evolving compositions of squares and rectangles that deliberately evoke early modernist geometric abstraction. Simon cites the influence of Johannes Itten and Josef Albers, teachers at the Bauhaus in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, who explored the apparent changes in hue caused by placing different colors next to each other. To this phenomenon, \u003ci\u003eColor Panel v1.0\u003c/i\u003e adds the element of time and, crucially, of endless variation: its beginning is variable, and its sequences never repeat, progressing over a time frame that approaches eternity. v1.0 in the title stands for the first version of the software that Simon used to create the work.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Rectangular electronic display panel with colorful test patterns mounted above a small exposed circuit board.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T15:46:08.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:39.113-05:00","images":[{"id":103004,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/12273/99_88a-c_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"5339","type":"artist"}]}}}}