Research Catalog

Title

Synthetics : aspects of art and technology in Australia, 1956-1975 / Stephen Jones.

Author

Jones, Stephen, 1951 January 23-

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

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Description

xii, 395 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

New technologies continually arise, offering repeated opportunities to artists in search of the technologically novel. The author calls this phenomenon the "rolling new," and in this book he describes how artists in Australia used new technologies in their art, from the early days of digital computing in the 1950s to a landmark exhibition in 1975. He looks at not only the artists and the artworks they produced but also at the evolution of computing technologies and video displays as these new forms of media developed into tools that artists could use.

Series Statement

Leonardo

Uniform Title

Leonardo book series.

Alternative Title

Aspects of art and technology in Australia, 1956-1975

Subject

• Art and technology > Australia
• Art and electronics > Australia
• Art, Australian > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. Hunters and gatherers of the new -- The seeds of computer graphics -- Computing at the University of Sydney -- Computer art and the PDP-8 -- Kinetics to electronics -- Post-object art & the tin sheds -- Video art -- Converging on interactivity.

ISBN

• 9780262014960 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262014963 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010018804

OCLC

611966776

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library