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

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Hannah Higgins Douglas Kahn

Mainframe Experimentalism

Name: Mainframe Experimentalism
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ISBN: 9780520268371

Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts

Hannah Higgins, Douglas Kahn

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English

University of California Press
21 September 2012

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Special kinds of photography

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.

Edited by: Hannah Higgins, Douglas Kahn
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780520268371
ISBN 10: 0520268377
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 21 September 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).