In Forming Software: Systems, Structuralism, Demythification

• Shanken, Edward A. ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Washington

     University of Washington

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Icono14, ISSN-e 1697-8293, Vol. 12, Nº 2, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Media Art: Arte, Ciencia y Tecnología), págs. 9-28
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the mid-1960s, Marshall McLuhan prophesied that electronic media were creating an increasingly interconnected global village. Such pronouncements popularized the idea that the era of machine-age technology was drawing to a close, ushering in a new era of information technology. This shift finds parallels in a wave of major art performances and exhibitions between 1966-1970, including nine evenings: theatre and engineering at the New York Armory, spearheaded by Robert Rauschenberg, Billy Klüver, and Robert Whitman in 1966; The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, curated by Pontus Hultén at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA) in 1968; Cybernetic Serendipity, curated by Jasia Reichardt at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in 1968; and Software, Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art, curated by Jack Burnham at the Jewish Museum in New York.