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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841501689 ISBN 13: 9781841501680

Publisher: Intellect Ltd, 2008

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 this title

About the Author:

Anna Bentkowska-Kafel is imaging officer for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom.
Trish Cashen is a member of the faculty of arts at the Open University, United Kingdom.
Hazel Gardiner is senior project officer at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Kings College, London, United Kingdom.

Review:

"This collection is a worthy edition to any art history, digital art, or teaching practice collection." - Brett Aggersberg, The Higher Education Academy website "Futures Past clarifies part of what is at stake as the computer's effects continue to ripple through art and art-scholarship. This perspective alone justifies the book's exploration, but Futures Past goes beyond this mark raising questions that will occupy the philosophers of our fields and future historians for some time to come." - Kristina Luce, www.academici.com "The papers collected in this book are very interesting and worth pondering [... and] cover almost all possible angles on which we can imagine the relationships between Arts and Computers.[...] it is very much worth reading." - Bernardo Nicoletti, www.academici.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Intellect Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1841501689
• ISBN 13: 9781841501680
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Cashen Trish, Gardiner Hazel, Bentkowska-Kafel Anna