Creative Simulations : George Mallen and the Early Computer Arts Society / edited by Catherine Mason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mason, Catherine.

Series:

Springer Series on Cultural Computing, 2195-9064

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

User interfaces (Computer systems).

Human-computer interaction.

Art--History.

Art.

Computers--History.

Computers.

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Art History.

History of Computing.

Local Subjects:

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Art History.

History of Computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This book is centred on the practitioner-led Computer Arts Society founded in 1969 and formed to address creative computation in all the arts – performance, poetry, text, sound, sculpture and graphics. The objectives and achievements of the Computer Arts Society are presented as realised through their members and exhibitions to the mid-1970s. The Society’s co-founder is Dr George Mallen, a pioneer of cybernetic systems and cultural applications of computing. Creative Simulations contains new research including Mallen’s early work with cybernetician Gordon Pask, whose concepts of interdisciplinarity were influential on the ground-breaking Ecogame (1970). Led by Mallen, Ecogame was a collaborative Computer Arts Society project, an early embodiment of computer technology into art and the first multi-media interactive gaming system in the UK. Pask’s influence in Mallen’s subsequent role at the Royal College of Art where he instigated the first computer lab facilities for artists, is examined. A recently discovered lecture given by Mallen is transcribed, along with reproduction of historic texts by Stephen Willats and John Lansdown (two of his colleagues), which add context to this history of interdisciplinary artistic innovation in the digital realm. Illustrations include art works, ephemera, exhibition posters and installations, preparatory drawings, computing equipment and associated flow charts and diagrams, many appearing here in print for the first time.

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

A Major Step Forward: the Computer Arts Society and Event One

From Cybernetics to Ecogame: Computing in a Cultural Context – an Interview with George Mallen

The Name of the Game is…? A Personal View of the Computer Arts Society’s Project

The Object is the Process: Computer Art Exhibitions of the 1970's in London and Edinburgh

An Interview on Art, Cybernetics and Social Intervention

Design as an Interesting Phenomenon:George Mallen and the Royal College of Art

General Principles of the Ecogame Model

On George Mallen, Poetry and the Future.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Mason, Catherine Creative Simulations

ISBN:

9783031506208

OCLC:

1440188825