Title: White heat cold logic : British computer art 1960-1980 /
Authors: Brown, Paul, 1947 October 23-
Publisher: MIT Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Computer art Great Britain.; Art, British
Abstract: "In this heroic period of computer art, artists were required to build their own machines, collaborate closely with computer scientists, and learn difficult computer languages. White Heat Cold Logic's chapters, many written by computer art pioneers themselves, describe the influence of cybernetics, with its emphasis on process and interactivity; the connections to the constructivist movement; and the importance of work done in such different venues as commercial animation, fine art schools, and polytechnics."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction / Charlie Gere -- Creative cybernetics ; the emergence of an art based on interaction, process, and system / Roy Ascott -- Transmitting art triggers : the early interactive work of Stephen Willats / Adrian Glew -- Interactive architecture / John Hamilton Fraser -- "Aesthetically potent environments," or how Gordon Pask detourned instrumental cybernetics / María Fernández -- In the beginning-- / Jasia Reichardt -- Cybernetic serendipity revisited / Brent MacGregor -- The technologies of Edward Ihnatowicz / Aleksandar Zivanovic -- Forty is a dangerous age : a memoir of Edward Ihnatowicz / Richard Ihnatowicz -- From system to software : computer programming and the death of constructivist art / Richard Wright -- Reconfiguring / Harold Cohen -- Reconstruction / Tony Longson -- Technological kindergarten : Gustav Metzger and early computer art / Simon Ford -- Patterns in context / Alan Sutcliffe -- Bridging computing in the arts and software development / George Mallen --^