On April 16. 1970, 18 month after the closing of Cybernetic Serendipity, and 10 month after the closing of tendencije4, Frieder Nake announced in PAGE 8: “I stop exhibiting for the present” As a reason he gives: “It looks as if the capitalist art market is trying to get hold of computer productions. This would mean a distraction from visualresearch.” And he concludes further: “the actual production in artistic computer graphics is repeating itself to a great extent. Really good ideas haven’t shown up for quite a while.” And one year later inPAGE 18 he reinforced his opinion with an article “There should be nocomputer art”. PAGE was the Bulletin of the new Computer Arts Society and was founded in London shortly after Cybernetic Serendipity. Here onthe one side a new Bulletin for computer art with Gustav Metzger as editor started, emphasizing the atmosphere of the a new beginning in the arts, on the other side one representative of the Stuttgart school of computer art announces the end of his public activities, disappointed about the unimaginativeness of computer arts and the lack of social responsibility after the first experimental period. (via Londonvisualresearch)