Mainframe Experimentalism | Early Computing and the Foundations of the
Digital Arts
Hannah Higgins (Editor), Douglas Kahn (Editor)
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.
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520268388
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