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

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      CAT 2010: Ideas before their time : Connecting the past and present in computer art (CAT)
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            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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            Conference
            February 2010
            February 2010
            : 64-75
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            [0001]6 Medina Court, Seven Sisters Road,

            London N7 7PU

            U.K.

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            10.14236/ewic/CAT2010.8
            dcce4424-bac6-4010-90f4-14604335e343
            © Richard Wright. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. CAT 2010: Ideas before their time : Connecting the past and present in computer art, London

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            CAT 2010: Ideas before their time : Connecting the past and present in computer art
            CAT
            London
            3 February 2010
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            CAT 2010: Ideas before their time : Connecting the past and present in computer art
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction

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