Confronting the Machine : An Enquiry into the Subversive Drives of Computer-Generated Art.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL -- SUBVERSIVE DRIVES: QUESTIONS AND ORIGINS -- METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH -- CHAPTERS AND CASE STUDIES -- Chapter 1 -- 1.1 COMPUTER-GENERATED ART AND ITS MULTIPLES -- 1.2 AN OPEN HISTORY OF GENERATIVE ART -- 1.3 RECURRING DEFINITIONS AND THE CONCEPT OF EMERGENCE -- 1.4 A COMMON NARRATIVE: BRIDGING THE ARTS AND THE SCIENCES -- 1.5 THE DIGITAL DIVIDE -- Chapter 2 -- 2.1 THE PIONEERING PERIOD OF COMPUTER ART 1968-1983 -- 2.2 HAROLD COHEN -- 2.2.1 FROM PAINTING TO PROGRAMMING -- 2.2.2 EARLY COMPUTER DRAWINGS -- 2.2.3 CREATIVITY, INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 2.2.4 ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE EVOLUTION OF AARON0 OF AARON -- 2.2.5 0RECEPTION OF COHEN'S WORK AND IDEAS -- 2.3 EDWARD IHNATOWICZ -- 2.3.1 FROM ASSEMBLAGES TO CYBERNETICS -- 2.3.2 THE SENSTER -- 2.3.3 THE UNDERSTANDING OF UNDERSTANDING -- 2.3.4 RECEPTION OF IHNATOWICZ'S WORK AND IDEAS -- 2.4 ART, COMPUTERS AND THE CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE -- Chapter 3 -- 3.1 DIVERGENT POSITIONS AFTER THE SEVENTIES -- 3.2 OPPOSITION TO AI AND THE COMPUTING MACHINE FROM WITHIN -- 3.3 QUESTIONING MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN THE POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY -- 3.4 ARTISTIC POSITIONS ON AI IN THE EIGHTIES AND NINETIES -- 3.5 EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ARGUMENTS -- Chapter 4 -- 4.1 COMPUTER ART AT THE DOCUMENTA X EXHIBITION -- 4.2 WHICH CRITERIA FOR MEDIA ART? -- 4.3 JODI, A BOMB IN THE SOURCE CODE -- 4.4 ONLINE AND OFFLINE: PROBLEMS OF PRESENTATION -- 4.5 RECEPTION OF MEDIA ART -- 4.6 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DOCUMENTA FOR JODI -- 4.7 SUBVERSIVE DRIVES IN MEDIA ART -- Conclusion -- THE MYTH OF THE TWO CULTURES -- ANOTHER TAKE ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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