| Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundation of the Digital Arts Contributor(s): Higgins, Hannah (Editor), Kahn, Douglas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0520268377 ISBN-13: 9780520268371 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | History - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 776.090 |
| LCCN: 2011049953 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.45 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |