feb 2 notes and leads
URLs:
GREAT snapshot of (jury-based) selections of 'electronic art' from 1987:
http://www.aec.at/en/archives/prix_einstieg.asp
VR-centric history "From Wagner to VR"
http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/contents.html
Books:
Digital Art (Christiane Paul, Thames & Hudson, 2003) - nicely compact.
Future Cinema (Shaw and Weibel, MIT Press, 2003) - 600+ pages!
Both books have excellent "chapter 1"s (history)
Some random mentions:
- The File Room, Antoni Muntadas, 1994?, early participatory text-base website
- several emergent experiments, Karl Sims, artificial life guru
- December 28, 1895, First public exhibition of CINEMA (Paris, Lumiere brothers)
- Crystal Palace Expo, London, First World's Fair ("Expo"s). Lots happened
at various expos over the years.