| dc.description.abstract | The histories of international networks that transgressed the Cold war barriers and were involved with digital arts in
the 1960s and early 1970s are an underresearched subject in many respects. Here is proposed a short fragmented
history of networks of digital art, i.e. organizations that group interconnected people that have been involved with the
creative use of computers. The practices of networks such as [New] Tendencies (Zagreb), E.A.T. (New York),
Computer Arts Society (London, Amsterdam, Michigan) and Working group for computers and verbal, visual and
sonic research (Utrecht) supported art that made use of machinic processes of communication and information
exchange, and bridged both society's and art's transition from the industrial age to the information society. Their
practices reinforced a creative use of digital technologies for actively participating in social contexts. These networks
promoted an interdisciplinary approach and led the evolution of digital culture from cybernetics to digital art. They
provided a context for digital arts within contemporary art, among others fields, and illustrated how a network of digital
arts operates even before the time of Internet. | |
