Decode: Digital Design Sensations

Be amazed by digitally growing plants, a mechanical eye and much more besides. The Victoria and Albert Museum's cutting-edge exhibition of digital and interactive design is coming to London later this year.

Decode: Digital Design Sensations at London's V&A

Discover the latest developments in digital and interactive design in a fascinating new exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).

Works range from small screen-based graphics to large-scale installations, created by established and up-and-coming artists and designers from around the world, including:

• Daniel Brown
• Golan Levin
• Daniel Rozin
• Troika
• Simon Heijdens

About Decode: Digital Design Sensations

Decode is presented in collaboration with London-based moving image and digital arts organisation OneDotZero.

The main event takes place in the V&A's Porter Gallery, but you can discover elements of the exhibition scattered throughout the museum and garden.

There's also a series of specially commissioned one-off performances, so make sure you're there when they take place!

For the first time, the V&A is commissioning a digital work for its website, where you can remotely access some of the works on display.

The Three Themes of Decode at the V&A

Decode: Digital Design Sensations explores three main themes in digital and interactive design:

• Code as a Raw Material: a new work from Daniel Brown's On Growth and Form series that creates organic digital images of plants that keep growing
• Interactivity: displays include Golan Levin's Opto-Isolator, a human-sized mechanical eye that follows your gaze and blinks after you do
• The Network: focusing on works that reuse or reinterpret everyday digital data, such as blogs, mobile communications and satellite-tracked GPS systems

Side Exhibition: Digital Pioneers

Alongside Decode: Digital Design Sensations is the Digital Pioneers exhibition (7 Dec-23 May), which explores the history of digital design.

The free display showcases some of the earliest computer-generated art and design, taken from the V&A's new computer art collections.

Highlights include works by:

• Frieder Nake
• Georg Nees
• Roman Verostko
• British artists Paul Brown and Harold Cohen

There are also plotter drawings, screen prints, digital inkjet prints, photographs and early algorithmic works, plus important documentary material.