Mainframe Experimentalism Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts by Hannah Higgins 9780520953734 0520953738

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• ISBN 10: 0520953738
• ISBN 13: 9780520953734
• Author: Hannah Higgins

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.

Table contents:

1.THE SOULLESS USURPER. Reception and Criticism of Early Computer Art
2. GEORGES PEREC’S THINKING MACHINES
3.IN FORMING SOFTWARE. Software, Structuralism, Dematerialization
4.INFORMATION AESTHETICS AND THE STUTTGART SCHOOL
5. “THEY HAVE ALL DREAMT OF THE MACHINES—AND NOW THE MACHINES HAVE ARRIVED” New Tendencies—Computers and Visual Research, Zagreb, 1968-1969
6.MINICOMPUTER EXPERIMENTALISM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM FROM THE 1950S TO 1980
7.JAMES TENNEY AT BELL LABS
8.HPSCHD-GHOST OR MONSTER?
9. THE ALIEN VOICE Alvin Lucier’s North American Time Capsule 1967
10. AN INTRODUCTION TO NORTH AMERICAN TIME CAPSULE 1967
11.NORTH AMERICAN TIME CAPSULE 1967
12.AN INTRODUCTION TO ALISON KNOWLES’S THE HOUSE OF DUST
13. THE BOOK OF THE FUTURE Alison Knowles’s The House of Dust
14. THREE EARLY TEXTS BY GUSTAV METZGER ON COMPUTER ART
15. COMPUTER PARTICIPATOR Situating Nam June Paik’s Work in Computing
16.FIRST-GENERATION POETRY GENERATORS Establishing Foundations in Form
17. “TAPE MARK I”
18.LETTER TO ANN NOËL
19. THE COMPUTATIONAL WORD WORKS OF ERIC ANDERSEN AND DICK HIGGINS
20. OPUS 1966
21. “COMPUTERS FOR THE ARTS” (MAY 1968)
22. THE ROLE OF THE MACHINE IN THE EXPERIMENT OF EGOLESS POETRY Jackson Mac Low and the Programmable Film Reader
23.STAN VANDERBEEK’S POEMFIELDS The Interstice of Cinema and Computing
24. FROM THE GUN CONTROLLER TO THE MANDALA The Cybernetic Cinema of John and James Whitney

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