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White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980 (Record no. 4707)

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International Standard Book Number 9780262026536
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 709.41
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Personal name Brown, Paul
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Title White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. United States;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. MIT Press Ltd;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 24 Feb 2008
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Extent 464 Pages;
Other physical details Hardback
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Summary, etc. Technological optimism, even utopianism, was widespread at midcentury; in Britain, Harold Wilson in 1963 promised a new nation "forged from the white heat of the technological revolution." In this heady atmosphere, pioneering artists transformed the cold logic of computing into a new medium for their art, and played a central role in connecting technology and culture. White Heat Cold Logic tells the story of these early British digital and computer artists -- and fills in a missing chapter in contemporary art history. 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. The advent of personal computing and graphical user interfaces in 1980 signaled the end of an era, and today we do not have so many dreams of technological utopia. And yet our highly technologized and mediated world owes much to these early practitioners, especially for expanding our sense of what we can do with new technologies. ContributorsRoy Ascott, Stephen Bell, Paul Brown, Stephen Bury, Harold Cohen, Ernest Edmonds, Maria Fernandez, Simon Ford, John Hamilton Frazer, Jeremy Gardiner, Charlie Gere, Adrian Glew, Beryl Graham, Stan Hayward, Grisham Howard, Richard Ihnatowicz, Nicholas Lambert, Malcolm Le Grice, Tony Longson, Brent MacGregor, George Mallen, Catherine Mason, Jasia Reichardt, Stephen A. R. Scrivener, Brian Reffin Smith, Alan Sutcliffe, Doron D. Swade, John Vince, Richard Wright, Aleksandar Zivanovic.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Electronic, holographic & video art
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
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Personal name Edmonds, Ernest A.
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Personal name Cohen, Harold
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Personal name Bury, Stephen
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Personal name Brown, Paul
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Personal name Bell, Stephen
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Personal name Ascott, Roy
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Personal name Mason, Catherine
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Personal name Lambert, Nicholas
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Personal name Gere, Charlie
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Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi In Store 29/07/2016   709.41 PKLC009817 01/10/2016 29/07/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17  
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Computing and the Internet 03/05/2016   709.41 PKLC002915 03/05/2016 03/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 For Sale