''White Heat Cold Logic'' (2008), edited by
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,
Charlie Gere
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, Nicholas Lambert, and
Catherine Mason
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, is a book about the history of British
computer art
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during 1960–1980.
Overview
The book includes 29 contributed chapters by a variety of authors. The book was published in 2008 by
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, in
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format. It also includes a series foreword by Sean Cubbitt, the
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of the
''Leonardo'' Book Series.
Contributors
The following authors contributed chapters in the book:
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Roy Ascott
Roy Ascott FRSA (born 26 October 1934) is a British artist, who works with cybernetics and telematics on an art he calls technoetics by focusing on the impact of digital and telecommunications networks on consciousness. Since the 1960s, Ascott ...
*Stephen Bell
*
Paul Brown
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*
Stephen Bury
*
Harold Cohen
*
Ernest Edmonds
Ernest Edmonds (born 1942, London, England) is a British artist, a pioneer in the field of computer art and its variants, algorithmic art, generative art, interactive art, from the late 1960s to the present. His work is represented in the V ...
*Maria Fernández
*Simon Ford
*John Hamilton Frazer
*
Jeremy Gardiner
*
Charlie Gere
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*Adrian Glew
*Beryl Graham
*Stan Hayward
*Graham Howard
*Richard Ihnatowicz
*
Malcolm Le Grice
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The British Film Institute claimed that he was "probably the most influential modernist filmmaker in British cinema".
Biography
Le Gri ...
*Tony Longson
*Brent MacGregor
*George Mallen
*
Catherine Mason
Catherine Mason (born in Australia) is an art historian and author who specialises in digital art, especially computer art.
Biography
Mason was born in Australia, brought up in the United States, and educated in the United Kingdom.
In the lat ...
*
Jasia Reichardt
Jasia Reichardt (born Janina Chaykin; 13 November 1933) is a British art critic, curator, art gallery director, teacher and prolific writer, specialist in the emergence of computer art. In 1968 she was curator of the landmark ''Cybernetic Serendi ...
*Stephen A. R. Scrivener
*
Brian Reffin Smith
*Alan Sutcliffe
*
Doron D. Swade
*John Vince
*Richard Wright
*Aleksandar Zivanovic
Reviews
The book has been reviewed in a number of publications and online, including:
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Amazon.co.uk''.
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''.
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''.
See also
* ''
Event One
''Event One'' was an early digital art exhibition held at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, England, in 1969.
''Event One'' was organised over two days during 29–30 March 1969 in the Gulbenkian Hall at the RCA by the Computer Arts Societ ...
'' computer art exhibition (1969)
References
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