The Computer's Arrival in Art (Damaged)

Full title: A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer's Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973, edited by Margit Rosen / ISBN 9780262515818 / massive 576-page paperback (weighing about 6.5 lbs), 9.25 x 10.5 inches, published by MIT Press / one copy with small crease to cover due to inbound shipping *** When Zagreb was the epicenter of explorations into the aesthetic potential of the new “thinking machines.” This book documents a short but intense artistic experiment that took place in Yugoslavia fifty years ago but has been influential far beyond that time and place: the “little-known story” of the advent of computers in art. It was through the activities of the New Tendencies movement, begun in Zagreb in 1961, and its supporting institution the Galerija suvremene umjetnosti that the “thinking machine” was adopted as an artistic tool and medium. Pursuing the idea of “art as visual research,” the New Tendencies movement proceeded along