[spectre] Re: RHIZOME_RARE: Call for Papers: Mainframe Experimentalism (book)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

dear douglas,

from the outline it seems that the subtitle of the book might 
usefully be amended:

Mainframe Experimentalism: early digital computing and the 
experimental arts *in  the United States of America*

even if you argue that in that period, art-related mainframe 
computing happened mainly in the US, 'early digital computing and the 
experimental arts' was of course also happening in other locales.

regards,
-a




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>CFP: Submissions for book on experimental arts and mainframe 
>computing in 1960s and 70s
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>Mainframe Experimentalism: early digital computing and the 
>experimental arts, edited by Douglas Kahn and Hannah Higgins.
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>We invite proposals for an interdisciplinary collection on the 
>encounter of artists, musicians, poets and writers, media and 
>filmmakers working within avant-garde, experimental and artistically 
>innovative traditions with mainframe computers and 
>institutionally-bound digital technologies during the 1960 and 1970s.
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>We are interested in three classes of materials: (1) substantive 
>accounts of artistic engagements, critical motivations and contexts, 
>institutional and collaborative settings within the social, 
>political and cultural transformations of the period; (2 discussions 
>of representations of computing during the period by individuals who 
>would be of direct interest to artists, and (3) original documents, 
>including unrealized plans.
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>Topics might include the digital work of John Whitney, Jackson 
>MacLow, Stan Vanderbeek, John Cage and Jerry Hiller’Äôs HPSCHD, 
>OULIPO-related computer literature, among many others.
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>The editors have already assembled papers by Benjamin Buchloh 
>(Columbia University) on Alison Knowles’Äô House of Dust poem, 
>Hannah Higgins (University of Illinois-Chicago) on the intermedia 
>aspects of the House of Dust, Douglas Kahn (University of 
>California-Davis) on James Tenney at Bell Labs, Christoph Cox 
>(Hampshire University) on Alvin Lucier’Äôs North American Time 
>Capsule, Owen Smith (University of Maine) on Dick Higgins’Äô 
>Computers for the Arts, and Edward Shanken (Savannah College of Art 
>and Design).
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>Please send 600 word proposals for essays of approximately 50,000 
>characters (including spaces) and/or publication of documents by 
>July 1, 2005, to Hannah Higgins <Higgins_at_uic.edu> Department of 
>Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, or Douglas Kahn 
><djkahn_at_ucdavis.edu>, Program in Technocultural Studies, 
>university of California, Davis.
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