PROGRAM, BE PROGRAMMED OR FADE AWAY: COMPUTERS AND THE DEATH OF CONSTRUCTIVIST ART

Why did Constructivist artists of the 60s and 70s find it so hard to switch from calculators and graph paper to BASIC and PCs? Was there something in their pre-computer ‘programmatic’ ways of working that did not readily transfer to computer programming – something that could now be recovered and used to refresh current software based art practices that constantly struggle with the limitations of proprietary operating systems, desktop interfaces and network protocols?

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Richard Wright

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Publication date: February 2010

Publication date (Print): February 2010

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/CAT2010.8

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Conference name: CAT 2010: Ideas before their time : Connecting the past and present in computer art

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Conference location: London

Conference date: 3 February 2010

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: CAT 2010: Ideas before their time : Connecting the past and present in computer art

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PROGRAM, BE PROGRAMMED OR FADE AWAY: COMPUTERS AND THE DEATH OF CONSTRUCTIVIST ART

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