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Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262361736
Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262361736
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Series: Leonardo
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262361736
An “episode of light” in Canada sparked by Expo 67 when new art forms, innovative technologies, and novel institutional and policy frameworks emerged together. Understanding how experimental art catalyzes technological innovation is often prized yet typically reduced to the magic formula of “creativity.” In Northern Sparks , Michael Century emphasizes the role of policy and institutions by showing how novel art forms and media technologies in Canada emerged during a period of political and social reinvention, starting in the 1960s with the energies unleashed by Expo 67. Debunking conventional wisdom, Century reclaims innovation from both its present-day devotees and detractors by revealing how experimental artists critically challenge as well as discover and extend the capacities of new technologies. Century offers a series of detailed cross-media case studies that illustrate the cross-fertilization of art, technology, and policy. These cases span animation, music, sound art and acoustic ecology, cybernetic cinema, interactive installation art, virtual reality, telecommunications art, software applications, and the emergent metadiscipline of human-computer interaction. They include Norman McLaren's “proto-computational” film animations; projects in which the computer itself became an agent, as in computer-aided musical composition and choreography; an ill-fated government foray into interactive networking, the videotext system Telidon; and the beginnings of virtual reality at the Banff Centre. Century shows how Canadian artists approached new media technologies as malleable creative materials, while Canada undertook a political reinvention alongside its centennial celebrations. Northern Sparks offers a uniquely nuanced account of innovation in art and technology illuminated by critical policy analysis.
Series: Media Origins
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 June 2022
EISBN: 9780262369572
Series: Media Origins
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 June 2022
EISBN: 9780262369572
Series: Media Origins
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13822.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262369572
Series: Media Origins
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 June 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/13822.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262369572