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White Heat Cold Logic British Computer Art 1960–1980 (MIT Press)

The history of a pioneering era of early British digital and computer-based art. Academic level scholarship in the essays collected here.

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Catherine has only very recently made it on to X and FB from what I see - but maybe we should invite her to Warpcast? It would be great to have her knowledge running alongside all the gen art and computer art speak

Happy to see this here. There are not many texts on the British computer art scene and there are some big, albeit rather unknown, names in there. I wonder if Catherine Mason has made it over to Warpcast yet. 🫶

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:) It was fine, I even got out and spent a little time touching pebbles (I live near a beach) :)

Hope you had a good sunday Paul!
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Oxford Dictionary says: 
the temperature or state of something that is so hot that it emits white light.
or:
a state of intense passion or activity.
"she had written the letter in a white heat of indignation"
Fits both as opposing cold logic

I don't know if there was an explicit reference to "White Heat" in any of the essays, but my memory might be letting me down there as I did read it more than 10 years ago! I can't see an references in my notes. "White Heat" always makes me think of the Velvet Underground :) Same era.

Another great share, thanks Paul 🙏
What does "White Heat" in the title refer to?

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