Michael Century

Northern Sparks

Innovation, Technology Policy, and the Arts in Canada from Expo '67 to the Internet Age

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Produktbeschreibung

"Northern Sparks explores modern Canadian innovation in media arts and technology since 1967, focusing on the intersection of art, science, technology, and policy"--

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Produktdetails

• Leonardo
• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780262045001
• ISBN-10: 0262045001
• Artikelnr.: 63507964

Autorenporträt

Michael Century

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword xi
Preface xiii
1 An Episode of Light: Canada from 1967 to 1992 1
2 Norman McLaren and Proto-Computationality 25
3 Hunger/La Faim: When the American Computer Had an Eye, and the Canadian
Computer a Hand 53
4 Calculated Motions: Gesture and Expression at the Interface 75
5 Tuning, Tundra, and Treasure: Canada's Expanded Musicality 103
6 Two Faces of Cultural Networking 131
7 Contesting a "New Art Form": Virtual Reality as Cultural Probe 159
8 Apres le Deluge: Periodizing Canada's Episode of Light 183
Appendix A: List of Interviews Conducted for This Book 195
Notes 197
Works Cited 225
Index 251