Table of Contents
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
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