9781841500621
Computers and Art provides insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists. The approaches taken vary from its historical, philosophical and practical implications to the use of computer technology in art practice. The contributors include an art critic, an educator, a practising artist and a researcher. Mealing looks at the potential for future developments in the field, looking at both the artistic and the computational aspects of the field.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Stuart Mealing
On drawing a circle
George Whale
Why use computers to make drawings?
Ed Burton
Representing representation: artificial intelligence and drawing
John Lansdown
Some trends in computer graphic art
Jim Noble
Fatal attraction: print meets computer
Jeremy Diggle
A year and a day on the road to Omniana
Martin Rieser
The art of interactivity: interactive installation from gallery to street
Paul Brown
Networks and artworks: the failure of the user-friendly interface
Joanna Buick
Virtual reality and art
Richard Wright
Visual technology and the poetics of knowledge
Brian Reffin-Smith
Post-modem art, or: Virtual reality as Trojan donkey, or: Horsetail tartan literature groin art
Mike King
Artificial consciousness - artificial art
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