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Cover

Cybernetic Serendipity - The computer and the arts - Edited by Jasia Reichardt

Colour computer graphic by John C. Mott-Smith

Contents

Introduction

Cartoon by Norman Toynton

Norbert Wiener on cybernetics

Notes on cybernetics - Mark Dowson

Digital computers - Mark Dowson

SAM - Stafford Beer

Highlights of the history and technology of computers from 1890 to the present

Glossary

Bibliography

The computer and music - Coordinate expansion - Joseph Schillinger

Computers and music - Dr. J. R. Pierce

Extract from notes on 'Mikrophonie I' - Karlheinz Stockhausen

Composition with computers - Herbert BrĂ¼n

Extracts from: Computer music experiences 1961-4 - James Tenney

Computer music - Lejaren A. Hiller, Jr.

Extract from 'A year from monday' - John Cage

Two electronic music computer projects in Britain - Peter Zinovieff

Music from paper tape - T. H. O'Beirne

Computer projects - Five screens with computer - Gustav Metzger

Computer structures

Computer Dance - Computer-programmed choreography

Machines and environments - The colloquy of mobiles - Gordon Pask

Analogue feedback projection system - John Lifton

Sidebands 1968 - Hugh Riddle and Anthony Pritchett

Carm-O-Matic - Eugenio Carmi

Sound-activated mobile - Edward Ihnatowicz

On the human predicament - Bruce Lacey

Mechanical patternmaker - Roy E. Allen

Five-year guaranty - Norman Bauman

Simulated synasthesia - Roger Dainton

Cybernetic light tower

The Honeywell-Emett 'Forget-me-not' (peripheral pachyderm computer)

The Tychotech - John Cohen

The pendulum-harmonograph: a drawing machine - Ivan Moscovich

Limitations and general design features of a pendulum drawing machine - John Ravilous

The Henry drawing computer - D. P. Henry

Amor-Voluptas-Pulchritudo 1966/68 - Ken Cox

Cybernetic introspective pattern-classifier - Christopher Evans

Combinatorial geometry - Raymond Connor

Automatic mechanical self-replication - Lionel Penrose

Computer poems and texts - Computer texts - Marc Adrian

Computerized Japanese haiku

Computer poetry from CLRU - Robin Mckinnon Wood and Margaret Masterman

Tape Mark I - Nanni Balestrini

A sheet from 'The house', a computer poem - Alison Knowles and James Tenney

Note on simulated computer poems - Edwin Morgan

Automatic sentence generation - Jean A. Baudot

Computer texts or high-entropy essays - E. Mendoza

Computer paintings - Computer paintings of Lowell Nesbitt - Henry Martin

Computer films - Permutations - John H. Whitney

Computer-animated movies - Kenneth C. Knowiton

An architectural project - Indeterminate dimensions in architecture - John Weeks

Computer graphics - Computer art - Jasia Reichardt

Experiments with Data Processing

How the hexagonalized pictures were formed - Robert Dick

A subjective comparison of Piet Mondrian's 'Composition with lines' 1917 - A. Michael Noll

Computer Technique Group from Japan

Notes on the programming of computer graphics - Frieder Nake

Programming stochastic computer graphics - Georg Nees

Bugs and patterns - Donald K. Robbins and Leigh Hendricks

An interview with Charles Csuri - Arthur Efland

How to draw a ball - Alan Parkin

Computer-generated pictures - L. D. Harmon and K. C. Knowlton

Boeing computer graphics

Computart panelling

Calcomp plotting system

Computer-generated graphics - Maughan S. Mason

Computer prints - Duane Palyka

7 designs

Computer pictures - Andrew Colin

Geometric patterns

Mathematically - defined surfaces - A. R. Forrest

Cubic interpolations - Sam Schmitt

Isometric view of neutron distribution - D. J. DiLeonardo

Shift-register derived patterns - D. H. Green

Oscillons (electronic abstractions) - Ben F. Laposky

Cydac images - Mortimer L. Mendelsohn, Brian H. Myall, Judith M. S. Prewitt, Benson H. Perry, and Thomas J. Conway

Index

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