Mainframe Experimentalism - Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts (Paperback)

"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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	Hannah Higgins • Douglas Kahn
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	376
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-26838-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Special kinds of photography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-26838-5
Barcode:	9780520268388

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