Digital Art History Links

These are some links to various resources related to the Introduction to Digital Art course at Metropolitan State College of Denver. These links will refer to material that is of interest to anyone researching both the origins of digital and computer technology in general, as well as that of Electronic Media, and the various offshoots and precursors associated with that artistic practice.

Computer and Digital Media History:

History of Computer Graphics Art

History of Computing

BBS Art

Data to Digital Art

Russian Soviet Animation

Doug Englebart

Alan Kay

Ted Nelson - Xanadu Project

Ted Nelson - Computer Lib / Dream Machines

Early Related Works

Moholy Nagy- Light Space Modulator
John Whitney- Catalog 1961
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz - Hole in Space
Experiments in Art and technology (EAT)
The Legacy of Jack Burnham by Simon Penny
All Systems Go: Recovering Jack Burnham’s ‘Systems Aesthetics’