Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Anticipation of the Electronic Grid (New Tendencies, 1961); Constructing Peripheral Modernity; Postwar Discourses on Art, Design, Technology, and Society; In Search of the Infinite: The Networks Preceding New Tendencies; New Tendencies 1961: The Exhibition; The Aesthetics of Relational Fields; Visual Structuralism; Anticipating the Electronic Grid; 2 The Scientification of Art? (1962-1963); Art as Research; Collective Production; Art and Information Aesthetics; Programmed Art; Participation in the New Machine Age
  • 1 Anticipation of the Electronic Grid (New Tendencies, 1961) 15
  • 2 The Scientification of Art? (1962-1963) 67
  • 3 Dreamworlds of Cybernetic Socialism (1963-1965) 109
  • 4 Computers, Visual Research, and "1968" (1968-1969) 143
  • 5 Dematerializations: Art in the Early Information Revolution (1971/1973-1978) 197
  • 6 Information Aesthetics Now 231
  • 4 Computers, Visual Research, and "1968" (1968-1969)5 Dematerializations: Art in the Early Information Revolution (1971/1973-1978); 6 Information Aesthetics Now; Artwork Cited; Introduction; 1 Anticipation of the Electronic Grid (New Tendencies, 1961); 2 The Scientification of Art? (1962-1963); 3 Dreamworlds of Cybernetic Socialism (1963-1965); 4 Computers, Visual Research, and "1968" (1968-1969); 5 Dematerializations: Art in the Early Information Revolution (1971/1973-1978); Bibliography; Archive Sources; Published Sources; Index
  • The Computers and Visual Research ExhibitionGustav Metzger; Otto Beckmann and ars intermedia; Compos 68; Marc Adrian; Vladimir Bonačić; Computers and Visual Research Conference; 5 Dematerializations: Art in the Early Information Revolution (1971/1973-1978); The New Art Practices; Vojvodina Conceptual Avant-Garde; Art in the Informational Paradigm; Art and Society (1977-1978); 6 Information Aesthetics Now; Notes; Introduction; 1 Anticipation of the Electronic Grid (New Tendencies 1, 1961); 2 The Scientification of Art? (1962-1963); 3 Dreamworlds of Cybernetic Socialism (1963-1965)
  • The Computers and Visual Research ExhibitionGustav Metzger; Otto Beckmann and ars intermedia; Compos 68; Marc Adrian; Vladimir Bonačić; Computers and Visual Research Conference; 5 Dematerializations: Art in the Early Information Revolution (1971/1973-1978); The New Art Practices; Vojvodina Conceptual Avant-Garde; Art in the Informational Paradigm; Art and Society (1977-1978); 6 Information Aesthetics Now; Notes; Introduction; 1 Anticipation of the Electronic Grid (New Tendencies 1, 1961); 2 The Scientification of Art? (1962-1963); 3 Dreamworlds of Cybernetic Socialism (1963-1965)
  • The Second New Tendencies Exhibition (1963)The Breton Moment; 3 Dreamworlds of Cybernetic Socialism (1963-1965); The Relationship between Art and Design; The Third New Tendencies Exhibition; Homo Ludens in the Environment; The End of New Tendencies as a Movement; 4 Computers, Visual Research, and "1968" (1968-1969); Computers and Visual Research: The Events of Summer 1968; Biasi Complains; The Year 1968 as a Paradigm-Changing Moment in History; Communism at the Crossroads; Networking for Computers and Visual Research; tendencies 4 (May-August 1969)