Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Timeline 109-176

1961- Roy Ascott applies cybernetic concepts to art and art education at the Ealing School of Art.
-in 1964 he publishes the the first essay on new media art which describes his techniques and philosophy

1963- Ivan Sutherland creates the Sketchpad system
-Set the precedents for the interface we know today, i.e. objects on a background.
-Allowed computers to be used for graphic purposes

1965- Ted Nelson outlines concepts of Hypertext and coins the word.

Early '70's- Oulipo (Ouvoir de la litterature Potentille) founded
-a french literary group aimed at investigating our conventional ideas of the structure of language and the form of texts
-they propose new potential ways in which literature can be written

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