Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393083594 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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. She is cofounder and information designer of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, where she lives. Megan Prelinger is a cultural historian and archivist, and the author of Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957–1962
One Star jim litwin An awful book. Elementary insights.. An Idiosyncratic Yet Worthwhile Effort chemical007 As an engineer, I am always receptive to efforts to bridge the gap between art, culture, history, and technology. And I am always nearly disappointed. Particularly egregious examples are the sad efforts to interpret particle physics with art, as in the case of "resident artists at CERN" or galleries of symbolic paintings of gluons at Stanford. The burden of failure to accomplishment this fusion must surely lie primarily with the artist, who rarely is tutored sufficiently in the demanding details of the science he/she is supposed to describe graphically or via the written word. It gets clumsy, awkward and . Technology through the lens of art: the graphical presentation of tubes, transistors, computers, & more In this book, cultural historian Megan Prelinger surveys the visual presentation of advances in electronics. To study how increasingly abstract developments were given tangible form in order to convey them to businesses, workers in the field, and the general public is an ingenious and provocative idea. But reading the book provides a mixed experience.Anyone who grew up learning about the scientific and technical developments she chronicles in her text is likely to trip repeatedly over her descriptions, and a reader who doesn’t already know may come away misinformed or confused. For instance, Preling
A fantastically geeky visual tour of tech industry history as seen through the lens of the commercial art that helped popularize it.” (Meg Miller - Fast Company)“Attentive readers of Prelinger’s lively chronology will come away with an appreciation of how the visual representations of technology are integral to our understanding of it.” (Chris Rasmussen - Bookforum)“Unusual and insightful…. “Fascinating…. I love it when a book like this makes me see the world differently.” (Kevin Kelly, senior maverick for Wired magazine and author of What Technology Wants) . Filled with retro tech-industry ads, magazine covers and other commercial artworks, this erudite book takes readers on a cultural history tour that sharply reveals ‘art’s ability to touch the intangible and render it visible.’” (John
154 color illustrations. It is also a story shaped by a generation of artists, designers, and creative thinkers who gave imaginative form to the most elusive matter of all: electrons and their revolutionary powers.As inventors learned to channel the flow of electrons, starting revolutions in automation, bionics, and cybernetics, generations of commercial artists moved through the traditions of Futurism, Bauhaus, modernism, and conceptual art, finding ways to link art and technology as never before.A visual tour of this dynamic era, Inside the Machine traces advances and practical revolutions in automation, bionics, computer language, and even cybernetics. A visual history of the electronic age captures the collision of technology and artand our collective visions of the future.A hidden history of the twentieth century’s brilliant innovationsas seen through art and images of electronics that fed the dreams of millions.A rich historical account of electronic technology in the twentieth century, Inside the Machine journeys from the very origins of electronics, vacuum tubes, through the invention of cathode-ray tubes and transistors to the bold frontier of digital com