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White Heat Cold Logic British Computer Art, 1960-1980

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ISBN-10: 0262026538

ISBN-13: 9780262026536

Edition: 2009

Authors: Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert, Catherine Mason, Roy Ascott

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Technological optimism, even utopianism, was widespread at midcentury; in Britain, Harold Wilson in 1963 promised a new nation "t;forged from the white heat of the technological revolution."t; In this heady atmosphere, pioneering artists transformed the cold logic of computing into a new medium for their art, and played a central role in connecting technology and culture. White Heat Cold Logictells the story of these early British digital and computer artists--and fills in a missing chapter in contemporary art history. In this heroic period of computer art, artists were required to build their own machines, collaborate closely with computer scientists, and learn difficult computer…    
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Book details

List price: $10.75
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/16/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 568
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.980

Paul Brown is a freelance journalist who writes regularly for magazines such as FourFourTwo. His previous book, Black and White Army, was described as a 'Geordie Fever Pitch'. He lives by the banks of the River Tyne and is a long-suffering supporter of Newcastle United.

Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research, Institute for Cultural Research, at Lancaster University.

Nicholas A. Lambert is Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall, London. His first book, Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution, won the Distinguished Book Prize from the Society for Military History.

Catherine Mason is an art historian at work on a book about computers and artistic practice in art schools and academic institutions.

Roy Ascottis President of the Planetary Collegium at the University of Plymouth, England and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Design/Media Arts, University of California Los Angeles.Edward A. Shankenis Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art, Georgia.

Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Creative Cybernetics: The Emergence of an Art Based on Interaction, Process, and System
Transmitting Art Triggers: The Early Interactive Work of Stephen Willats
Interactive Architecture
"Aesthetically Potent Environments," or How Gordon Pask Detourned Instrumental Cybernetics
In the Beginning ...
Cybernetic Serendipity Revisited
The Technologies of Edward Ihnatowicz
Forty Is a Dangerous Age: A Memoir of Edward Ihnatowicz
From System to Software: Computer Programming and the Death of Constructivist Art
Reconfiguring
Reconstruction
Technological Kindergarten: Gustav Metzger and Early Computer Art
Patterns in Context
Bridging Computing in the Arts and Software Development
Two Cultures: Computer Art and the Science Museum
Never the Same Again
Which Art in Heaven
The Routes toward British Computer Arts: The Role of Cultural Institutions in the Pioneering Period
From Machine to Metaphor: Artists and Computers at Chelsea School of Art 1960-1980
From Systems Art to Artificial Life: Early Generative Art at the Slade School of Fine Art
Connections: A Personal History of Computer Art Making from 1971 to 1981
My First Brush with Computer Graphics
Conceptual Art, Language, Diagrams, and Indexes
Constructive Computation
PICASO at Middlesex Polytechnic
From 0 to 1: Art Made between the Times of Having and Not Having a Computer
The Aftermath of Early Computer Art: A Painter's Odyssey
The Ironic Heirs to Serendipity: British New Media Art, 1980s to Now
List of Contributors and Editors
Index