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Finally getting around to reading this one, now 13 years old! I am enjoying its fresh and varied approach, despite its age. Love the chapter on Perec's Thinking Machines.

Mainframe Experimentalism - Hannah Higgins & Douglas Kahn, Eds. 2012

'Mainframe Experimentalism challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley’s technological revolutions in the 1970s. In fact, in the 1960s, a diverse array of artists, musicians, poets, writers, and filmmakers around the world were engaging with mainframe and mini-computers to create innovative new artworks that contradict the stereotypes of "computer art."'

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Thanks Tim, this is very interesting era of computer art, not least since access to those machines was very restricted, and also so very few artists knew how to program them.

Sounds super interesting, I'm especially drawn to those periods when something completely new emerges and starts to shift paradigms.
Thanks for sharing, Paul 🙏
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thanks for the recommendation. just the title "Mainframe Experimentalism" is catchy enough to add to the "to read" list

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