Synthetics
Subtitle: aspects of art and technology in Australia, 1956-1975
By: Stephen Jones
Series: Leonardo books
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780262014960
Other titles: Aspects of art and technology in Australia, 1956-1975
Description: New technologies continually arise, offering repeated opportunities to artists in search of the technologically novel. The author calls this phenomenon the "rolling new," and in this book he describes how artists in Australia used new technologies in their art, from the early days of digital computing in the 1950s to a landmark exhibition in 1975. He looks at not only the artists and the artworks they produced but also at the evolution of computing technologies and video displays as these new forms of media developed into tools that artists could use.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Hunters and gatherers of the new; title: The seeds of computer graphics; title: Computing at the University of Sydney; title: Computer art and the PDP-8; title: Kinetics to electronics; title: Post-object art & the tin sheds; title: Video art; title: Converging on interactivity.