Variable Conditions : Para-Computational Arts in Canada, 1965-1995 / edited by Adam Lauder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lauder, Adam, 1981- editor.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; Volume 43.

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Series ; Volume 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Variable Conditions

Place of Publication:

McGill-Queen's University Press

Montreal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Variable Conditions recovers Canadian instances of early encounters between computational media and contemporary art in the late twentieth century. The book provides valuable new perspectives and new contexts for understanding computer art pioneers, sketching a new landscape of surprising connections between scientific and artistic institutions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Early Days

1 Controlled Randomness

2 Excavating the Origins of Network Art in Canada: Leslie Mezei, Peter Milojevic, and Computer Art Journalism of the 1960s and 1970s

3 The First Live Performances on the Moog Synthesizer and Intersystems’ Electrosonic Concert at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1968

4 The Montreal Milieux of Suzanne Duquet and Suzy Lake

5 Circling the Computational: Jean-François Lyotard and Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale

Part Two. Towards Personal Computing

6 New Media Art and Industry, a Critical Relationship

7 The Complex Digital Utopianism of Robert Adrian X

8 Beyond Electronics: Pimatsiwin and Computing Arts in Manitoba

Part Three. Interviews

9 Interview with Leslie Mezei

10 Interview with Roger Vilder

11 Interview with Gilles Gheerbrant

12 Interview with Mick Dawdy

13 Cybernetic Selfie: Interview with Les Levine

14 Vera Frenkel in Conversation with Dot Tuer: String Games, Then and Now

15 Interview with Norman White

16 Interview with IAIN BAXTER&

17 Zainub Verjee in Conversation with Julia Polyck-O’Neill

Glossary

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228019749

0228019745

OCLC:

1381663865