[spectre] Rob Myers reviews the book Mainframe Experimentalism

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

Book reviewed by Rob Myers

Remembering the heroic age of arts computing is often a family affair in
Hannah B Higgins and Douglas Kahn's book Mainframe Experimentalism, which
leads Rob Myers to ask just how much the rest of us can come to love this
neglected but key moment in art digital history.

"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." Hannah Higgins & Douglas Kahn.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/mainframe-experimentalism
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