When the Machine Made Art - International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine Made Art examines the cultural and critical response to computer art, or what we refer to today as digital art. Tracing the heated debates between art and science, the societal anxiety over nascent computer technology, and the myths and philosophies surrounding digital computation, Taylor is able to identify the destabilizing forces that shape and eventually fragment the computer art movement.>

Product details

• Authors: Grant D Taylor, Grant D. Taylor, Taylor Grant D
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2014
• EAN: 9781623568849
• ISBN: 978-1-62356-884-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Series: International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics; International Texts in Critica; Print on Demand; International Texts in Critica
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art