Angewandte Imagination und Kreativität um 1960. Eine Einführung

Mareis, Claudia

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“…All in all, to be creative was to be according to Jamie Cohen-Cole a stabilizer for democratic systems. With him or her, a "foil to the ideologically blinded Russian scientist" could be sent on the academic battle field of the Cold War (Mareis 2016, Cohen-Cole 2009. On the field of economics, both innovations and productivity were promising, and brought greater international competitiveness and a brighter future.…”

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“…On the field of economics, both innovations and productivity were promising, and brought greater international competitiveness and a brighter future. Creative centers were set up to do this, like the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at MIT, a cooperation between the "two cultures" and techniques of creativity (Mareis 2016, Rottmann 2016a. In a time when workers and employers -also managers -saw their identity and existence threatened in the course of computerisation, digitalisation and automation by rationalisation and subordination under the conditions of the machine -"machine thinking" as Turner (2008) put it -, creativity could provide a refuge, at least as long as it remains a property unique to humans.…”

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CHECKING CREATIVITY: Machines, Media and Mathematics in Early Computer, Serial and Conceptual Art

Rottmann¹

2018

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Around 1960 digitalisation and computers started to spread through American society and in their wake came a reappraisal of machines: from a production method to a means of innovation. This art historical case study aims to show that mathematical machines were used in early computer, serial and conceptual art not only to explore their aesthetic potential and the media involved. Machines in art of the period also conjured the interplay of the human and machine in creative processes and thus examined creativity itself within human-machine networks. Comparison of these art forms delivers a surprising insight: although one can assume for all three art movements affinity for the idea and thinking, one encounters ambivalence and criticism concerning logical machines and their creative potential. Paradoxically put, with mathematical machines and critical algorithmic practices, some artists turned against a kind of "machine thinking".

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introduction: Human or Machine?mentioning

confidence: 99%