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

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

Author(s) -

Richard S. Wright

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

electronic workshops in computing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

ISSN - 1477-9358

DOI - 10.14236/ewic/cat2010.8

Subject(s) - computer science , constructivist teaching methods , software , application programming interface , graph , human–computer interaction , constructivism (international relations) , software engineering , multimedia , programming language , mathematics education , theoretical computer science , teaching method , international relations , politics , political science , law , mathematics

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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