| last name: | Hultén |
| first name: | Pontus |
| also known as: | Karl Gunnar Hultén |
| birthday: | June 21, 1924 |
| birth-place: | Stockholm (Sweden) |
| death date: | October 26, 2006 |
| died in: | Stockholm (Sweden) |
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Swedish art collector, museum director and curator. In 1968, he arranged the seminal show The Machine, as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York – an exhibition of great importance at the turn from the industrial (“mechanical”) to the media society. In other words, “The Machine …” may now be seen as an event in the early years of the Algorithmic Revolution.
| 1959 | Curator of the Moderna Museet Stockhom |
| 1962 | Director of the Moderna Museet Stockhom 247 |
| after 1961 | Invited to organize an exhibition on kinetic art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The outcome of this project is the 1968 exibition The Machine, as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age. |
| 1977 | Founding Director of Centre Pompidou in Paris |
