Mainframe Experimentalism. Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts

randen W. Joseph, Christoph Cox, Robert A. Moog, Alvin Lucier, Hannah B. Higgins, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Simon Ford, William Kaizen, Christopher Funkhouser, Nanni Balestrini, Emmett Williams, Eric Andersen, Dick Higgins, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Gloria Sutton, Zabet Patterson, Grant Taylor, David Bellos, Edward A. Shanken.

ISBN 10: 0520268385 / ISBN 13: 9780520268388

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 2012

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Mainframe Experimentalism. Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts. Hannah B Higgins und Douglas Kahn Hrsg. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2012. 227:152mm. 362S., ca 30 Abb. Brosch. "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. Juxtaposing the original works alongside scholarly contributions by scholars from several disciplines, "Mainframe Experimenta-lism" 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." Mit Beiträgen von Christoph Klütsch, Margit Rosen, Charlie Gere, Douglas Kahn, Branden W. Joseph, Christoph Cox, Robert A. Moog, Alvin Lucier, Hannah B. Higgins, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Simon Ford, William Kaizen, Christopher Funkhouser, Nanni Balestrini, Emmett Williams, Eric Andersen, Dick Higgins, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Gloria Sutton, Zabet Patterson, Grant Taylor, David Bellos, Edward A. Shanken. Im Betracht werden die Arbeit u.a. von Georges Perec, The Stuttgart School, Zagreb, The U.K., James Tenney, Alvin Lucier, Alison Knowles, Gustav Metzger, Nam Juan Paik, Eric Andersen, Dick Higgins, Jackson Mac Low, Stan VanDerBeek, John and James Whitney. Mit Index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mainframe Experimentalism. Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 0520268385
• ISBN 13: 9780520268388
• Binding: Softcover
• Illustrator: Georges Perec, The Stuttgart School, Zagreb, The U.K., James Tenney, Alvin Lucier, Alison Knowles, Gustav Metzger, Nam Juan Paik, Eric Andersen, Dick Higgins, Jackson Mac Low, Stan VanDerBeek, John and James Whitney.
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Hannah B Higgins is Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Fluxus Experience (UC Press). Douglas Kahn is Professor of Media and Innovation at the National Institute of Experimental Arts (NIEA) at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the coeditor of Source: Music of the Avant-garde (UC Press).