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https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/125720437\/Model_Metaphor_Analogy_The_Computational_Imaginary_in_Arte_Programmata_s_Experimental_Environments_1964_68<\/a><\/p>\n

Model, Metaphor, Analogy: The Computational
\nImaginary in Arte Programmata\u2019s Experimental
\nEnvironments, 1964-68 <\/p>\n

LINDSAY CAPLAN <\/p>\n

Electronic brains, even if they are still far from producing all the
\nfunctions of the human brain, are nonetheless capable of providing us
\nwith a convincing theoretical model for the most complex processes of
\nour memory, our mental associations, our imagination, our conscience.
\n(Calvino 1967) <\/p>\n

When Italo Calvino spoke these words in 1967 to an audience in Turin, he
\ncaptured one of the central ways that artists and writers had been engaging with new computational technologies for the last decade: as a robust model for conceptualizing the creative and cognitive capacities of human beings. The terms drawn from computers may be new\u2014coding, patterns, programming, and information, to name some of the most prevalent at the time\u2014but, Calvino claimed, they described operations as old as writing itself: \u00abwriters, as they have always been up to now, are already writing machines,\u00bb he asserted, elaborating that \u00abthe struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape the confines of language.\u00bb (Calvino, 1986, p. 13; 16) <\/p>\n

Individual expression constitutes a dynamic process of working within
\nand beyond technological, linguistic, social, or material constraints. The advent of computers simply helped to make this clearer than ever before. <\/p>\n

Much has been written about what computers model for Calvino (a world
\nof discrete instead of continuous structures and experiences; art as a
\ncombinatorial game, with radical implications for understanding the nature of authorship). However, less attention has been paid to how modeling worked to articulate the political agency of art\u2014in mixed and often contradictory ways\u2014and why it was so widely used to describe computer art, specifically, especially among artists working with these new technologies in Italy in the 1960s….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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