Mainframe Experimentalism

Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts

By: Hannah Higgins (Editor), Douglas Kahn (Editor)

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Paperback | 21 September 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Discourses
The Soulless Usurper: Reception and Criticism of Early Computer Art
Georges Perec's Thinking Machines
In Forming Software: Software, Structuralism, Dematerialization
Centers
Information Aesthetics and the Stuttgart School
"They Have All Dreamt of the Machines--and Now the Machines Have Arrived": New Tendencies--Computers and Visual Research, Zagreb, 1968-1969
Minicomputer Experimentalism in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to 1980
Music
James Tenney at Bell Labs
HPSCHD--Ghost or Monster?
The Alien Voice: Alvin Lucier's North American Time Capsule 1967
An Introduction to North American Time Capsule 1967
North American Time Capsule 1967
Art and Intermedia
An Introduction to Alison Knowles's The House of Dust
The Book of the Future: Alison Knowles's The House of Dust
Three Early Texts by Gustav Metzger on Computer Art
Computer Participator: Situating Nam June Paik's Work in Computing
Poetry
First-Generation Poetry Generators: Establishing Foundations in Form
"Tape Mark I"
Letter to Ann Noël
The Computational Word Works of Eric Andersen and Dick Higgins
Opus 1966
"Computers for the Arts" (May 1968)
The Role of the Machine in the Experiment of Egoless Poetry: Jackson Mac Low and the Programmable Film Reader
Film and Animation
Stan VanDerBeek's Poemfields: The Interstice of Cinema and Computing
From the Gun Controller to the Mandala: The Cybernetic Cinema of John and James Whitney
Index
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