Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital ArtsHannah Higgins, Douglas Kahn Univ of California Press, 21 de set. 2012 - 362 pàgines “The computer may now be seen as a ‘universal machine,’ but this has not always been the case. This substantial collection of essays and documents shows how artists, poets, musicians, filmmakers and other experimenters first discovered the computer, and began using it as their tool and medium. Mainframe Experimentalism is essential reading for anyone who wants to penetrate behind superficial clichés about digital art and culture.”—Erkki Huhtamo, author of Illusions in Motion: A Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles. “Higgins’ and Kahn’s anthology is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the impact of computer technology on creative production in the arts and literature in the 1960s and beyond. This superb collection presents the first truly international examination of this subject, demonstrating the fascinating collaborations and interchanges that occurred as artists, poets, musicians, and filmmakers explored the potential for new, impersonal forms of expression offered by ‘mainframe experimentalism.’ Here is the prehistory of the digital arts of today in a volume that is equally essential to the histories of the individual fields involved as well as to scholarship on art and technology in general.”—Linda Dalrymple Henderson, author of Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works. |
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Minicomputer Experimentalism in the United Kingdom | 6 |
Reception and Criticism of Early Computer | 17 |
1963 | 21 |
Georges Perecs Thinking Machines | 38 |
Software Structuralism Dematerialization | 51 |
Information Aesthetics and the Stuttgart School | 65 |
They Have All Dreamt of the Machinesand Now the Machines | 88 |
James Tenney at Bell Labs | 131 |
An Introduction to Alison Knowless The House of Dust | 195 |
Three Early Texts by Gustav Metzger on Computer | 209 |
Situating Nam June Paiks | 229 |
Establishing Foundations | 243 |
Letter to Ann Noël | 275 |
Opus 1966 | 288 |
The Interstice of Cinema | 311 |
The Cybernetic Cinema | 334 |
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