Generative Systems Art

Description

In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmonds  art from the late 1960s to the present day. Edmonds  inventions of new concepts, tools and forms of art, along with his close involvement with the communities of computer artists, constructive artists and computer technologists, provides the context for discussion of the origins and implications of the relationship between art and technology. Drawing on interviews with Edmonds and primary research in archives of his work, the book offers a new contribution to the history of the development of digital art and places Edmonds  work in the context of contemporary art history. (Source: Google Books API)