Mainframe experimentalism : early computing and the foundations of the digital arts / edited by Hannah B. Higgins and Douglas Kahn.
2012
NX180.C66 M35 2012 (Mapit)
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Mainframe experimentalism : early computing and the foundations of the digital arts / edited by Hannah B. Higgins and Douglas Kahn.
ISBN
9780520268371 (alk. paper)
0520268377 (alk. paper)
9780520268388 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520268385 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520268377 (alk. paper)
9780520268388 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520268385 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
Language
English
Description
xiv, 362 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
NX180.C66 M35 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
776.09/046
Summary
This book 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, this book 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 bibliographical references and index.
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Discourses
Centers
Music
Art and intermedia
Poetry
Film and animation.
Centers
Music
Art and intermedia
Poetry
Film and animation.