Mainframe Experimentalism
Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts
Hannah B Higgins (Editor), Douglas Kahn (Editor)
Available worldwide
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.
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