- 1960's - Cybernetics & art continue to retain focus - the distinction between participation & interaction
- Art of the Electric Age focuses on the interaction and relationship between the work & viewer.
- 1980's - Telematic art: communications & collaboration between people far apart
- Relationship between art, science, & behavior, a flexible structure to bend science & art
Chapter 11 - A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate by Theodor H. Nelson
- Nelson coined the term "hypertext" & offered a complex, reconfigurable structure for info
- Thought about the web years before it came to be commonplace
Chapter 12 - Six Selections by Oulipo
- Developed a system with the potential to create computer-mediated textuality
- Enhances the readers ability to create literature
- Renegotiates the relationship between the work, the creator, & the viewer
- Yours for the Telling
- Like Choose Your Own Ending books we used to read in elementary school
- Allows the reader to take an active role
- Computer and Writer by Paul Fournel
- Outlines the different relationships between creator, computer, art, & viewer
- Talks about math & literature
- Prose and Anticombinatorics by Italo Calvino
- Examples of how computers help create literature
- Chooses compatible possibilities
- "The medium is the message"- McLuhan.
- 1962 - Typographic technology causes a change in western thought
- Printing press - Gutenberg - people can be hypnotized one sense at a time by a new technology
- 1964 - "The Medium is the Message
- This essay makes me want to claw my eyes out.
- Talks about the idea that the media itself overshadows the content it puts out.
- Hate.
- 1965 - Influential artist were gathered from various groups in Europe and New York
- 1966 - E.A.T was founded, Experiments in Art and Technology
- 1970's - Advancements of technology and art together
- The Pepsi Expo Pavillion is created as a collaboration between artist and engineers.
Basically, McLuhan is a nutcase. A brilliant, brilliant man, but a nutcase. Why do brilliant people feel the need to write in such a way so that it takes an average person a lot of serious work to figure out what they're saying? A lot of McLuhan's ideas and concepts can be restated in a way so the average high school student could understand them, but they're so convoluted that I don't want to read it because it makes my brain hurt.
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