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Generative Systems Art : The Work of Ernest Edmonds - Francesca Franco

Generative Systems Art

The Work of Ernest Edmonds

By: Francesca Franco

Hardcover | 10 October 2017 | Edition Number 1

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In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmonds' art from the late 1960s to the present day. Edmonds' inventions of new concepts, tools and forms of art, along with his close involvement with the communities of computer artists, constructive artists and computer technologists, provides the context for discussion of the origins and implications of the relationship between art and technology. Drawing on interviews with Edmonds and primary research in archives of his work, the book offers a new contribution to the history of the development of digital art and places Edmonds' work in the context of contemporary art history.
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"I consider this book to be an important contribution to the field of media art history and in particular to that of generative and interactive art."

Frank Popper, Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the Science of Art, University of Paris VIII, Paris

"This book provides a long overdue in-depth study of the work of one of the pioneers of digital art. Drawing upon Edmonds' original projects, his notes and statements, as well as documentation and exhibition catalogues, Francesca Franco traces the work's evolution from figurative art to colour abstraction and computer-based experimentation. The author's detailed analysis not only creates a deeper understanding of Edmonds' body of work but also functions as media archaeology, referencing exhibition histories that are often overlooked and outlining intersections between Constructivism, Systems Art and the digital art of the 21st century, as well as their concepts, tools, and forms."

Christiane Paul, Associate Professor, School of Media Studies, The New School, New York

"Of all those who signposted the road of interaction, systems, colocation and the new geometries of space and communication, from Fluxus to ubiquitous networks, Ernest Edmonds has been among the most connected, prolific and influential. Francesca Franco elaborates his rich, diverse and endlessly invigorating practice in relation to art movements and institutional evolutions in an imaginative and immaculate work of art historical scholarship. Still perplexing even in the digital era, this story of digital art's origins and trajectories will inspire new generations of artists, scholars and thinkers in the dense interweavings of art, science and technology."

Sean Cubitt, Professor of Film and Television and co-Head of Department of Media and Communications Goldsmiths, University of London.

"An insightful and rich source of information about Ernest Edmonds' art practice; this book offers multifaceted observations about the context, connections and development of his generative art."

Melanie Lenz, Curator, Digital Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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