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Northern Sparks: Innovation, Technology Policy, and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age
ISBN: 0262045001 ;ISBN: 9780262045001 ;EISBN: 9780262361736 ;EISBN: 0262361736 ;DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.001.0001
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Title:
Northern Sparks: Innovation, Technology Policy, and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age
Author:
Century, Michael
Subjects:
ACXJ8 Art & design styles: Postmodernism
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Art & design styles: from c 1960
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Book Industry Communication
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Canada
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Canadian culture
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media arts
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innovation policy
;
human-computer interaction
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cultural networking
;
virtual reality
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computer animation
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electronic music
;
acoustic ecology
;
improvisation studies
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Digital media
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History of art & design styles: from c 1900
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History of art / art & design styles
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History of engineering & technology
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Technological innovations
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Technology
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Technology and the arts
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Technology, engineering, agriculture
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Technology: general issues
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The arts
Description:
An “episode of light” in Canada sparked by Expo 67 when new art forms, innovative technologies, and novel institutional and policy frameworks emerged together. Understanding how experimental art catalyzes technological innovation is often prized yet typically reduced to the magic formula of “creativity.” In Northern Sparks, Michael Century emphasizes the role of policy and institutions by showing how novel art forms and media technologies in Canada emerged during a period of political and social reinvention, starting in the 1960s with the energies unleashed by Expo 67. Debunking conventional wisdom, Century reclaims innovation from both its present-day devotees and detractors by revealing how experimental artists critically challenge as well as discover and extend the capacities of new technologies. Century offers a series of detailed cross-media case studies that illustrate the cross-fertilization of art, technology, and policy. These cases span animation, music, sound art and acoustic ecology, cybernetic cinema, interactive installation art, virtual reality, telecommunications art, software applications, and the emergent metadiscipline of human-computer interaction. They include Norman McLaren's “proto-computational” film animations; projects in which the computer itself became an agent, as in computer-aided musical composition and choreography; an ill-fated government foray into interactive networking, the videotext system Telidon; and the beginnings of virtual reality at the Banff Centre. Century shows how Canadian artists approached new media technologies as malleable creative materials, while Canada undertook a political reinvention alongside its centennial celebrations. Northern Sparks offers a uniquely nuanced account of innovation in art and technology illuminated by critical policy analysis.
Related Titles:
Leonardo
Publisher:
Cambridge: The MIT Press
Creation Date:
2022
Format:
280
Language:
English
Identifier:
ISBN: 0262045001
ISBN: 9780262045001
EISBN: 9780262361736
EISBN: 0262361736
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10818.001.0001
Source:
MIT Press Direct OA
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
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