Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. ILLUSTRATIONS XI
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XIII
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART ONE. DISCOURSES
7. 1. The Soulless Usurper: Reception and Criticism of Early Computer Art 17
8. 2. Georges Perec's Thinking Machines 38
9. 3. In Forming Software: Software, Structuralism, Dematerialization 51
10. PART TWO. CENTERS
11. 4. Information Aesthetics and the Stuttgart School 65
12. 5. "They Have All Dreamt of the Machines—and Now the Machines Have Arrived": New Tendencies—Computers and Visual Research, Zagreb, 1968-1969 90
13. 6. Minicomputer Experimentalism in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to 1980 112
14. PART THREE. MUSIC
15. 7. James Tenney at Bell Labs 131
16. 8. HPSCHD-Ghost or Monster? 147
17. 9. The Alien Voice: Alvin Lucier's North American Time Capsule 1967 170
18. 10. An Introduction to North American Time Capsule 1967 187
19. 11. North American Time Capsule 1967 189
20. PART FOUR. ART AND INTERMEDIA
21. 12. An Introduction to Alison Knowles's The House of Dust 195
22. 13. The Book of the Future: Alison Knowles's The House of Dust 200
23. 14. Three Early Texts by Gustav Metzger on Computer Art 209
24. 15. Computer Participator: Situating Nam June Paik's Work in Computing 229
25. PART FIVE. POETRY
26. 16. First-Generation Poetry Generators: Establishing Foundations in Form 243
27. 17. "Tape Mark I" 266
28. 18. Letter to Ann Noel 275
29. 19. The Computational Word Works of Eric Andersen and Dick Higgins 279
30. 20. Opus 1966 288
31. 21. "Computers for the Arts" (May 1968) 292
32. 22. The Role of the Machine in the Experiment of Egoless Poetry: Jackson Mac Low and the Programmable Film Reader 298
33. PART SIX. FILM AND ANIMATION
34. 23. Stan VanDerBeek's Poemfields: The Interstice of Cinema and Computing 311
35. 24. From the Gun Controller to the Mandala: The Cybernetic Cinema of John and James Whitney 334
36. INDEX 355