Futures Past: Thirty Years of Arts Computing (Volume 2) (Intellect Books - Computers and the History of Art)

ISBN 10: 1841501689 / ISBN 13: 9781841501680

Published by Intellect Ltd, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Futures Past: Thirty Years of Arts Computing (Volume 2) (Intellect Books - Computers and the History of Art)
• Publisher: Intellect Ltd
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841501689
• ISBN 13: 9781841501680
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In decades past, artists envisioned a future populated by technological wonders such as hovercraft vehicles and voice-operated computers. Today we barely recognize these futuristic landscapes that bear only slight resemblance to an everyday reality. Futures Past considers digital media’s transformative impact on the art world from a perspective of thirty years’ worth of hindsight. Herein a distinguished group of contributors—from researchers and teachers to curators and artists—argue for a more profound understanding of digital culture in the twenty-first century.


This unprecedented volume examines the disparities between earlier visions of the future of digital art and its current state, including frank accounts of promising projects that failed to deliver and assessments of more humble projects that have not only survived, but flourished.  Futures Past is a look back at the frenetic history of computerized art that points the way toward a promising future.

About the Author

Anna Bentkowska-Kafel is a research fellow for the 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network at King’s College London. Trish Cashen teaches at the Open University. Hazel Gardiner is editor for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland.