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ARTWORK OF DAVID GLYNN ACQUIRED BY THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, UK Works of David Glynn, a Los Angeles painter, printmaker, and digital artist, have been acquired by the Computer Art Collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, UK. "In the last few years the Victoria and Albert Museum has received two important donations of computer-generated art and design. These include three works by you [David Glynn]," said Melanie Lenz, the museum's assistant curator of computer art who works with Douglas Dodds, the Senior Curator. "The work came to us as part of a donation from the Patric Prince collection . . . an excellent addition to the collections of the museum's Word and Image Department, and, combined with the acquisition of the Computer Art Society archive, makes the V&A's holdings of computer-generated art the most substantial in any UK museum." Patric Prince, an American art historian and curator, amassed one of the most extensive collections of computer art, with approximately 200 original artworks. Melanie Lenz is in the process of making the entire V&A Computer Art collection available for their visitors both at the museum and online. David Glynn exhibited digital works in Los Angeles in the 1990s as part of a pioneering collective known as the Digilantes, which included artists Michael Wright, Michael Masucci, Victor Acevedo, and others. "Their encouragement and the support of Patric Prince provided a cohesive environment for discovery. I was making work on an Atari and then a Mac, and people like Timothy Leary were showing up at our events and saying things like, "˜What we used to call spiritual in the 60s we now call digital'." "To be in the collection is an honor," says Glynn. "Patric Prince was right there as a steadfast curator and collector of the computer art that played a pivotal part in the evolution of this new medium. I'm glad to see that era preserved at the V&A." David Glynn's paintings, prints, and digital works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in cultural centers and galleries in the United States and abroad, including the Torrance Art Museum in California, the Computer Museum in Boston, the University Art Gallery of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, the Retretti Art Center in Punkaharju, Finland, and the Spectra Digital Arts Gallery and the Vibrant Gallery in New York City.