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      Art in the Information Age: Technology and Conceptual Art

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          Art historians have generally drawn sharp distinctions be-tween conceptual art and art-and-technology. This essay reexamines the interrelationship of these tendencies as they developed in the 1960s, focus-ing on the art criticism of Jack Burnham and the artists in-cluded in the Software exhibition that he curated. The historiciza-tion of these practices as distinct artistic categories is examined. By interpreting conceptual art and art-and-technology as reflections and constituents of broad cultural transformations during the information age, the author concludes that the two tenden-cies share important similarities, and that this common ground offers useful insights into late-20th-century art.

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          Journal
          Leonardo
          Leonardo
          MIT Press - Journals
          0024-094X
          1530-9282
          August 2002
          August 2002
          : 35
          : 4
          : 433-438
          Affiliations
          [1 ]Information Science Studies (ISIS), 17 John Hope Franklin Center, Box 90400, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, U.S.A. E-mail: <>.
          Article
          10.1162/002409402760181259
          a9c8baca-7a3f-4aff-8609-78a5bcb7e6ef
          © 2002
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