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Burnham wrote that the purpose of “software” wasn’t to bring artist and

technology together but rather “to focus our sensibilities on the

fastest growing area in this culture: information processing

systems and their devices.” Through technology,

artists don’t produce art as people knew it tens

or thousands of years ago, Burnham defines

computers as “instrumental in redefining the entire

area of esthetic awareness.”

Unlike the general understanding at the time that

computers are these complicated machines that

bring people confusion, Ted Nelson believed

that “Computers are simply a

necessary and enjoyable

part of life, like food and books.

Computers are not everything,

they are just an aspect of

everything, and not to

know this is computer

illiteracy, a silly

and dangerous

ignorance.

“We know virtually nothing of human abilities except

as they have been pickled and boxed in schools” “In ordinary schooling, the victim

cannot orient himself to the current topic except

by understanding the official angle of

approach and presentation.” Nelson

said this 40 years ago and

unfortunately, in some

extend, it still applies

to the current

education

system.

“We live in media, as fish live in water.”(Many people are prisoners of

the media, many are manipulators, and many

want to use them to communicate artistic

visions.) And namely this is the main

use of computers, “to help people

write, think and show.”

Because it’s up to us to

design “the systems

we are all going

to have to live

with.”

Digital Visions – Computers and Art by Cynthia Goodman 1987 p41.

Roy Ascott, Paramater IV, 1967. Polymer-stained wood, 972 x 1148cm.

Computer Lib/Dream Machines by Ted Nelson, 1974

Roy Ascott, Paramater IV, 1967. Polymer-stained wood, 972 x 1148cm.

November 27, 1968–February 9, 1969 The Museum of Modern Art