Peripheral Vision

Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the Origins of Computer Art

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• Zabet Patterson

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• Plattform-Studien

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• 152 Seiten
• 6 Lesestunden

• Historisches Thema
• Sachliteratur

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In 1959, the electronics manufacturer Stromberg-Carlson produced the S-C 4020, a device that allowed mainframe computers to present and preserve images. In the mainframe era, the output of text and image was quite literally peripheral; the S-C 4020—a strange and elaborate apparatus, with a cathode ray screen, a tape deck, a buffer unit, a film camera, and a photo-paper camera—produced most of the computer graphics of the late 1950s and early 1960s. At Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, the S-C 4020 became a crucial part of ongoing encounters among art, science, and technology. In this book, Zabet Patterson examines the extraordinary uses to which the Bell Labs SC-2040 was put between 1961 and 1972, exploring a series of early computer art projects shaped by the special computational affordances of the S-C 4020.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Einband: Paperback