UID:
almafu_9960178038902883
Format:
1 online resource (376 p.)
Edition:
Reprint 2019
ISBN:
0-520-95373-8
Content:
Mainframe Experimentalism challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley’s technological revolutions in the 1970s. In fact, in the 1960s, a diverse array of artists, musicians, poets, writers, and filmmakers around the world were engaging with mainframe and mini-computers to create innovative new artworks that contradict the stereotypes of "computer art." Juxtaposing the original works alongside scholarly contributions by well-established and emerging scholars from several disciplines, Mainframe Experimentalism demonstrates that the radical and experimental aesthetics and political and cultural engagements of early digital art stand as precursors for the mobility among technological platforms, artistic forms, and social sites that has become commonplace today.
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Includes index.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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ILLUSTRATIONS --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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INTRODUCTION --
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1. The Soulless Usurper: Reception and Criticism of Early Computer Art --
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2. Georges Perec's Thinking Machines --
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3. In Forming Software: Software, Structuralism, Dematerialization --
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4. Information Aesthetics and the Stuttgart School --
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5. "They Have All Dreamt of the Machines—and Now the Machines Have Arrived": New Tendencies—Computers and Visual Research, Zagreb, 1968-1969 --
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6. Minicomputer Experimentalism in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to 1980 --
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7. James Tenney at Bell Labs --
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8. HPSCHD-Ghost or Monster? --
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9. The Alien Voice: Alvin Lucier's North American Time Capsule 1967 --
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10. An Introduction to North American Time Capsule 1967 --
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11. North American Time Capsule 1967 --
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12. An Introduction to Alison Knowles's The House of Dust --
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13. The Book of the Future: Alison Knowles's The House of Dust --
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14. Three Early Texts by Gustav Metzger on Computer Art --
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15. Computer Participator: Situating Nam June Paik's Work in Computing --
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16. First-Generation Poetry Generators: Establishing Foundations in Form --
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17. "Tape Mark I" --
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18. Letter to Ann Noel --
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19. The Computational Word Works of Eric Andersen and Dick Higgins --
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20. Opus 1966 --
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21. "Computers for the Arts" (May 1968) --
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22. The Role of the Machine in the Experiment of Egoless Poetry: Jackson Mac Low and the Programmable Film Reader --
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23. Stan VanDerBeek's Poemfields: The Interstice of Cinema and Computing --
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24. From the Gun Controller to the Mandala: The Cybernetic Cinema of John and James Whitney --
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INDEX
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-26837-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-26838-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520953734
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