The Real Thing
•This is why today’s class will be based on examination of real pieces
•This history is happening now—most of the artists still alive, but…
–“For many of its critics, computer art was the product of many discursive assumptions, methodologies, and vocabulary as science.”
–Victim of “sustained hostility toward the computer”
–Sign of “subordination of the individual to the emerging technocracy”
–Seemed more in line with modernist abstract work—seemed outdated to postmodernist artists and critiques
Quotes from abstract of unpublished
PhD thesis by Grant Taylor, The Machine that Made Science Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art
(1963-1989),
University of Western Australia, 2005.