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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820800103321

Autore

Mealing Stuart

Titolo

Computers and art [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Intellect, 2007

ISBN

978058520246X

0-585-20246-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

700.105

702.85

Soggetti

Art and technology

Computer art

Digital art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; On drawing a circle; Why use computers to make drawings?; Representing representation: artificial intelligence and drawing; Some trends in computer graphic art; Fatal attraction: print meets computer; A year and a day on the road to Omniana; The art of interactivity: interactive installation from gallery to street; Networks and artworks: the failure of the user-friendly interface; Virtual reality and art; Visual technology and the poetics of knowledge

Post-modem art, or: Virtual reality as Trojan donkey, or: Horsetail tartan literature groin artArtificial consciousness - artificial art; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists. The approaches taken vary from its historical, philosophical and practical implications to the use of computer technology in art practice. The contributors include an art critic, an educator, a practicing artist and a researcher. The Editor's contribution will look at the potential for future developments in the field, looking at both the artistic and the computational aspects of the field. This collection seeks to bring together the latest theories and advances in the use of computers in art as well as looking in a prac