Internet Art - Rachel Greene

1. Who is Nam June Paik?
R, Artist b. in 1932, which took the television, traditionally a broadcast platform. and shaped it in to a interactive canvas. Paik's apparatus for reception and production prefigured browser art, which treats browsers as fodder foe exerimentation.

2. What was "Radical Software" and when was it published?
R, Published from 1970-1974, it featured more interdisciplinary and technicalapproaches to democratizing media.

3. Who is Lawrence Alloway and what did he write?
R. British critic, who seemed to anticipate the media when he wrote "The art world described as a system" about the various social. professional and critical networks, in which artists and theirvwork circulate.

4. On p14 she mentions ars electronica. Go to http://www.aec.at/en/index.asp and spend at least 5 minutes there.

5. Who was Charles Babbage?
R. He was an early visionary of the computer and electronic data. He was a 19th century mathematics professor at Cambridge University whose work on production and labour would be taken up by John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx, ans who designed prototypes for apparatuses that performed tasks by following instructions, now commonly known as programs.