When the machine made art [electronic resource] : the troubled history of computer art

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서명/저자사항	When the machine made art [electronic resource]: the troubled history of computer art / Grant D. Taylor.
개인저자	Taylor, Grant D., author.
발행사항	New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.
형태사항	1 online resource (ix, 337 pages).
총서사항	International texts in critical media aesthetics ;volume 7
기타형태 저록	Print version: Taylor, Grant D. When the machine made art. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2014] 9781623567958
ISBN	9781623565619 (ePDF) 1623565618 (ePDF) 9781623562724 (ePub) 1623562724 (ePub)
일반주기	Discrepancy in series enumeration on cover: "Volume 8, International texts in critical media aesthetics."
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Introduction: unorthodox -- Future crashes -- Coded aesthetics -- Virtual renaissance -- Frontier exploration -- Critical impact -- Epilogue: Aftermath.
요약	"When the Machine Made Art covers the reception and criticism of computer art from its emergence in 1963 to its crisis in 1989, when ideological differences fragment the art movement. The text begins by identifying the various divisions between the humanistic and scientific cultures that inform early criticism. The fact that the first computer art has military origins and is imbued with various techno-science mythologies, places the movement at odds with artworld orthodoxy. Yet, while mainstream art critics reproach computerized art, a comparison between similar art forms of the era, such as conceptual art, reveals that the criticism of computer art was motivated more by the fear of the machine than by aesthetics. Dr. Grant Taylor shows that social anxiety, often fueled by Cold War dystopianism, posited the computer as a powerful instrument in the overall subordination of the individual to the emerging technocracy. But even though anti-computer sentiment abated in the late 1970s, computer art did not find acceptance. The book illustrates how computer art's exponents, desiring artworld legitimacy, traced its lineage back to modernism. Conversely, in the 1980s, art theorists, employing the latest critical theory, began critiquing the assumptions of modernism, and thus viewed computer art's modernist history as hopelessly outdated. And yet other critics reconciled computer technology with the critical insights of postmodernism, viewing the computer as a pluralistic agent that could challenge modernist conventions. Nonetheless, while postmodernist criticism enabled the formation of new discourses for emerging digital arts, it left computer art, which was committed to modernist and techno-science philosophies, in a state of crisis"--
요약	"Examines the cultural and critical response to computer art, by identifying the destabilizing forces that affect, shape, and eventually fragment the computer art movement"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Computer art. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. ART / History / General. ART / Digital.
분류기호(DDC)	776
언어	영어
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