When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art

by Grant D. Taylor

Book Overview

Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine Made Art examines the cultural and critical response to computer art, or what we refer to today as digital art. Tracing the heated debates between art and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623568846
• ISBN13: 9781623568849
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"