Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy - Lindsay Caplan

Descriere Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy - Lindsay Caplan

\n \nTracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde's pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and control \n \n In postwar Italy, a group of visionary artists used emergent computer technologies as both tools of artistic production and a means to reconceptualize the dynamic interrelation between individual freedom and collectivity. Working contrary to assumptions that the rigid, structural nature of programming limits subjectivity, this book traces the multifaceted practices of these groundbreaking artists and their conviction that technology could provide the conditions for a liberated social life.\n \nSituating their developments within the context of the Cold War and the ensuing crisis among the Italian left, Arte Programmata describes how Italy's distinctive political climate fueled the group's engagement with computers, cybernetics, and information theory. Creating a broad range of immersive environments, kinetic sculptures, domestic home goods, and other multimedia art and design works, artists such as Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari, and others looked to the conceptual frameworks provided by this new technology to envision a way out of the ideological impasses of the age.\n \nShowcasing the ingenuity of Italy's earliest computer-based art, this study highlights its distinguishing characteristics while also exploring concurrent developments across the globe. Centered on the relationships between art, technology, and politics, Arte Programmata considers an important antecedent to the digital age. \n

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University Of Minnesota Press

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ENSTK

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9781517909956

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1

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