Books, sound & paper

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Publications, music records, and artifacts that document how computer art and music were made, discussed, exhibited, and heard.

23 published items
Fritz Wilhelm Winckel’s Technik und Aufgaben des Fernsehens (1930): beige cover with blue German lettering, visible spotting and wear.
Book · 1930Technik und Aufgaben des FernsehensFritz Wilhelm Winckel
Ben F. Laposky, Oscillons: Electronic Abstractions—A New Approach to Design (1953): front cover with a monochrome oscilloscope pattern below the title.
Exhibition catalogue · 1953Oscillons: Electronic Abstractions—A New Approach to DesignBen F. Laposky
Computer Music from the University of Illinois (Heliodor, 1967): front sleeve with overlapping red, blue, yellow and white IBM punch cards, featuring music by Hiller, Isaacson and Baker.
LP or sound recording · 1967Computer Music from the University of IllinoisLejaren Hiller, Leonard Isaacson, Robert Baker
Front cover of Architecture and the Computer, published by the Boston Architectural Center in 1964.
Printed matter · 1964Architecture and the ComputerBoston Architectural Center
Front cover of Design and the Computer, Design Quarterly numbers 66 and 67, published by the Walker Art Center in 1966.
Magazine or periodical · 1966Design and the ComputerPeter Seitz, editor
Iwanami Lecture Series on Fundamental Engineering, portfolio 1 (series 1967–1971): three fascicles with cover designs by Shigeru Watanabe and CTG members, showing a square field of fine tangled lines, a folded brown-gray surface, and dense blue vertical waves.
Book · 1967–1971; General Index 1974Iwanami Lecture Series on Fundamental Engineering (岩波講座 基礎工学)Cover designs by Shigeru Watanabe, Haruki Tsuchiya, Kōji Fujino and Masao Kōmura
Front sleeve of Cybernetic Serendipity Music, featuring Peter Zinovieff’s graph-paper score Four Sacred April Rounds, 1968.
LP or sound recording · 1968Cybernetic Serendipity MusicPeter Schmidt, editor. Peter Zinovieff, cover artist.
Front cover of Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts (1968), combining plotter works by Charles Csuri and Lloyd Sumner in Franciszka Themerson’s design.
Exhibition catalogue · 1968Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the ArtsJasia Reichardt, editor. Franciszka Themerson, design & layout.
Morton Subotnick’s Touch (1969), front sleeve featuring CTG’s Return to a Square as concentric, distorted white contours on black.
LP or sound recording · 1969TouchMorton Subotnick
Front sleeve of John Cage and Lejaren Hiller’s HPSCHD / Ben Johnston’s String Quartet No. 2 (Nonesuch, 1969), with bold black typography and a red, yellow and gray collage.
LP or sound recording · 1969HPSCHD / String Quartet No. 2John Cage, Lejaren Hiller, Ben Johnston
Rolling Stone, no. 26, February 1, 1969: Jimi Hendrix smoking on a magenta-bordered cover announcing Computer Art.
Magazine or periodical · 1969Rolling Stone, February 1969: “Computer Soul”Thomas Albright
CTG’s Plot Bach on the back cover of Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach, Japanese pressing (1969): Johann Sebastian Bach’s portrait formed from multicolored computer-generated marks.
LP or sound recording · 1969Switched-On Bach スイッチト・オン・バッハWalter Carlos (Wendy Carlos)
Cover of Jasia Reichardt’s Cybernetics, Art and Ideas (1971), featuring Computer Technique Group’s Return to Square B.
Book · 1971Cybernetics, Art and IdeasJasia Reichardt, editor
Jasia Reichardt’s The Computer in Art (1971): dark blue hardcover with a cream title panel and a black geometric image derived from Stan VanDerBeek’s BEFLIX film work.
Book · 1971The Computer in ArtJasia Reichardt
Front sleeve of David Tudor’s Microphone (Cramps Records, 1978), with the title over a black grid fractured into irregular polygonal patches.
LP or sound recording · 1978MicrophoneDavid Tudor
Cover of Herbert W. Franke’s Computer Graphics – Computer Art (1985), featuring Mathematical Landscape by Franke and Horst Helbig.
Book · 1985Computer Graphics – Computer ArtHerbert W. Franke
Cover of Cynthia Goodman’s Digital Visions: Computers and Art (1987), featuring Vibeke Sorensen’s Fish and Chips: three-dimensional fish and computer chips against a grid.
Book · 1987Digital Visions: Computers and ArtCynthia Goodman
Smithsonian, February 1995: Charles Csuri’s Homage to the Muse (1990) on the cover, showing a fragmented computer-generated head surrounded by repeated figures.
Magazine or periodical · 1995Smithsonian, February 1995: Charles Csuri Is an “Old Master” in a New MediumPaul Trachtman
Cover of 20th Century Computer Art: Beginnings and Developments (Tama Art University Museum, 2006), with stacked black horizontal bars and English and Japanese titles.
Exhibition catalogue · 200620th Century Computer Art: Beginnings and DevelopmentsAssociation for Algorithmic Art (芸術アルゴリズム研究会) and Tama Art University, editors
Front cover of Charles A. Csuri: Beyond Boundaries, 1963–present (2006), featuring a detail of Csuri’s Entanglement (2002).
Exhibition catalogue · 2006Charles A. Csuri: Beyond Boundaries, 1963–presentJanice M. Glowski, editor
Front cover of Ex Machina: Early Computer Graphics up to 1979 (2007), the Kunsthalle Bremen catalogue edited by Wulf Herzogenrath and Barbara Nierhoff-Wielk.
Book · 2007Ex Machina - Frühe Computergrafik bis 1979 / Early Computer Graphics up to 1979Wulf Herzogenrath and Barbara Nierhoff-Wielk, editors
Opening page of Margit Rosen’s In the Beginning, There Was the Analogue (Artnodes, 2024), with an orange journal banner and the article’s title and publication details.
Magazine or periodical · 2024In the beginning, there was the analogue. An alternative history of the beginnings of computer artMargit Rosen
On NFTs, edited by Robert Alice (TASCHEN, 2024): Osinachi Art Edition cover with oversized overlapping black letters and numerals on a pale background.
Book · 2024On NFTsRobert Alice (editor)