Coded : art enters the computer age, 1952-1982 / Leslie Jones ; with contributions by Bronac Ferran, Patrick Frank, Tiffany Funk, Hannah B Higgins, Meredith Hoy, Jennifer King, Lisa Gabrielle Mark, Joel McKim, Britt Salvesen, Edward Shanken, Staci Steinberger, Grant D. Taylor, Bobbye Tigerman, Debora Wood.
Publisher:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art ;
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 x 25 cm
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 12-July 2, 2023. Artists include: Rebecca Allen, Siah Armajani, Richard Baily, Colette Stuebe Bangert, Charles Jeffries Bangert, Jennifer Bartlett, Jonathan Borofsky, Stanley Brouwn, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Thomas Chimes, Harold Cohen, Computer Technique Group, Analivia Cordeiro, Waldemar Cordeiro, Charles Csuri, Agnes Denes, herman de vries, Juan Downey, Charles Eames, Ray Eames, Charles Gaines, Brion Gysin, Hans Haacke, Frederick Hammersley, Leon D. Harmon, June Harwood, Jean-Pierre Hebert, Desmond Paul Henry, Channa Horwitz, Herve Huitric, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Donald Judd, Hiroshi Kawano, Edward Kienholz, Alison Knowles, Kenneth C. Knowlton, Beryl Korot, Gerald Laing, Ben F. Laposky, Sol LeWitt, Jackson Mac Low, Aaron Marcus, Jean-Claude Marquette, Hansjorg Mayer, Edward Meneeley, Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar, Francʹois Morellet, N.E. Thing Co. Ltd (Iain and Ingrid Baxter), Monique Nahas, Frieder Nake, Lowell Nesbitt, A. Michael Noll, Nam June Paik, Eduardo Paolozzi, Peter Phillips, Sheila Pinkel, Paul Rand, Sonya Rapoport, Bridget Riley, Lillian F. Schwartz, Barbara T. Smith, John Stehura, Peter Struycken, Calvin Sumsion, Angelo Testa, Joan Truckenbrod, Stan VanDerBeek, Victor Vasarely, Gary Viskupic, Lawrence Weiner, Dennis Wheeler, John Whitney Sr, Stephen Willats and Emmett Williams. Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-254) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Still processing / Jennifer King -- Foreword / Michael Govan -- Preface: Let's meet a year from Monday / Hannah B. Higgins -- Introduction : Still processing / Leslie Jones -- New tendencies. Grant D. Taylor -- Coming to terms with the data processing machine : Design and computers in the 1950s-70s / Staci Steinberger -- Sequencing serendipity : Mathematical agents in the computational imagination / Meredith Hoy -- Generation text / Bronac Ferran -- Aaron Marcus, evolving gravity and noise barrier -- Reboot : Mondrian and Klee in the computer lab / Leslie Jones -- Frederick Hammersley, computer drawings -- Early computer animation : Between process and meaning / Britt Salvesen -- Studies in perception I (alpha serendipity) / Debora Wood -- The plot thickens : Cultural influences on early computer drawing / Patrick Frank -- Meaning machines : Harold Cohen and the art of automation / Joel McKim -- Information as art in the 1960s and 1970s / Lisa Gabrielle Mark -- Sonya Rapoport, shoe-field -- Strange bedfellows : Art and computer in the age of protest / Leslie Jones -- Life code hack : Social cybernetics in the work of Stephen Willats / Leslie Jones -- Coding dance and dancing code : Analivia Cordeiro's M3x3 / Edward Shanken -- Channa Horwitz, Sonakinatography -- John Cage and Lejaren A. Hiller, Jr., HPSCHD / Tiffany Funk -- Weaving code: Intersections of textiles and technology / Bobbye Tigerman -- I, computer : Artists and technology exhibitions, 1968-1971 / Jennifer King -- New tendencies.
Summary:
"Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982 explores how the rise of computer technology, together with its emergence in popular consciousness, impacted the making of art in the age of the mainframe. International and interdisciplinary in scope, Coded examines the origins of what we now call digital art, featuring artists, writers, musicians, choreographers and filmmakers working directly with computers as well as those using algorithms and other systems to produce their work. Whether computer-generated or not, the many artworks considered here reflect the simultaneous wonder and alienation that was characteristic of the 1960s and '70s, along with the utopian and dystopian possibilities of these new machines. Today, with digital technology having been fully integrated into our lives, Coded's examination of the years leading up to the advent of the personal computer is relevant, even imperative, to fully appreciating art and culture in the age of the computer--both then and now."-- Back cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.