Index

Contents

Acknowledgements iv
Foreword vii
Introduction ix

Chapter One, White Heat: A Background, 1
Chapter Two, British Art Postwar: The Independent Group and Cybernetics, 16
Chapter Three, "Causing an Uproar!' Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore's Basic Design, 33
Chapter Four, A Cybernetic Art Matrix: Roy Ascott, Stroud Cornock and Stephen Willats, 53
Chapter Five, The Cybernetic Art of Edward Ihnatowicz, 79
Chapter Six, A Room of Our Own: Cybernetic Serendipity and The Computer Arts Society, 100
Chapter Seven, Crafting Code: The Polytechnics and Computer Arts, 134
Chapter Eight, A Computer in the Art Room? The Experimental Department at the Slade School of Fine Art, 171
Chapter Nine, Bits in Motion: Pioneering British Computer Animation, 207
Conclusion, 239

Sources, 245
Endnotes, 250
Index, 265