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

by Hannah Higgins (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $94.58

  Challenges the conventional wisdom that digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley's technological revolutions in 1970s. This title 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.