User:Joak/mediaobject

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the mouse and the interrupt

In 1970 the editor of German magazine "Kunst" announced in PAGE #9 (the bulletin of the computer arts society)[1], that they will publish there next edition under the cover-motif "computer art". In a questionary for computer artist the sixth question asked is "Do you interrupt the program-process for alteration?". To understand this question it's necessary to factor in two points. First, keep in mind the technological circumstances. At this time computer where executing programs from the beginning to the end. Once the machine was running the only possibility to stop it was to switch of the power. Second, artist(not technicians) who used the computer for artistic purpose were mostly orientated on (formal ideas) of a "post-constructivism".

Other points:

• computer as assemblage[Latour] -> the technological subconsious[nigel thrift]/ the machanic unconscious[medosch]
• explain the interrupt in the assemblage[computer] - maybe change over time from the X1 to processing
• the mouse and computer art -> by the introduction of the mouse consider again the aesthetic of computer art in this time
• mouseproject -> klangmouse

• [1]PAGE #9
• [2]Interrupt by Simon Yull, Originally published in Matthew Fuller (ed.), Software Studies: A Lexicon,

Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: The MIT Press, 2008.