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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-13
9780520268388
eBay Product ID (ePID)
116034593
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts
Author
Douglas Kahn, Hannah Higgins
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
499g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Hannah Higgins, Douglas Kahn
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