''White Heat Cold Logic'' (2008), edited by Paul Brown,

Charlie Gere Charlie Gere is a British academic who is professor of media theory and history at The Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, The University of Lancaster and previously, director of research at the Institute for Cultural Research at The U ...

, Nicholas Lambert, and

Catherine Mason Catherine Mason (born in Australia) is an art historian and author who specialises in digital art, especially computer art. Biography Mason was born in Australia, brought up in the United States, and educated in the United Kingdom. In the lat ...

, is a book about the history of British

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during 1960–1980.

Overview

The book includes 29 contributed chapters by a variety of authors. The book was published in 2008 by

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, in

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format. It also includes a series foreword by Sean Cubbitt, the

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of the ''Leonardo'' Book Series.

Contributors

The following authors contributed chapters in the book: *

Roy Ascott Roy Ascott FRSA (born 26 October 1934) is a British artist, who works with cybernetics and telematics on an art he calls technoetic by focusing on the impact of digital and telecommunications networks on consciousness. Since the 1960s, Ascott ...

*Stephen Bell *Paul Brown * Stephen Bury * Harold Cohen *

Ernest Edmonds Ernest Edmonds (born 1942, London, England) is a British artist, a pioneer in the field of computer art and its variants, algorithmic art, generative art, interactive art, from the late 1960s to the present. His work is represented in the Victor ...

*Maria Fernández *Simon Ford *John Hamilton Frazer *

Jeremy Gardiner Jeremy Gardiner (born 26 April 1957) is a contemporary landscape painter who has been based in the United Kingdom and the United States. His work has been featured in books. It has also been reviewed in ''The Boston Globe'', '' Miami Herald'', ...

*Adrian Glew *Beryl Graham *Stan Hayward *Graham Howard *Richard Ihnatowicz *

Malcolm Le Grice Malcolm Le Grice (born May 1940, in Plymouth, United Kingdom) is a British artist known for his avant-garde film work. Biography The British Film Institute claims that he "is probably the most influential modernist filmmaker in British cinema". ...

*Tony Longson *Brent MacGregor *George Mallen *

Jasia Reichardt Jasia Reichardt (born 1933) is a British art critic, curator, art gallery director, teacher and prolific writer, specialist in the emergence of computer art. In 1968 she was curator of the landmark ''Cybernetic Serendipity'' exhibition at London's ...

*Stephen A. R. Scrivener *

Brian Reffin Smith Brian Reffin Smith (born 1946) is an artist, writer, teacher and musician born in Sudbury, Suffolk, in the United Kingdom, who won the first-ever Prix Ars Electronica, the Golden Nica, in Linz, Austria, 1987. He lives in Berlin, Germany. Life Br ...

*Alan Sutcliffe * Doron D. Swade *John Vince *Richard Wright *Aleksandar Zivanovic

Reviews

The book has been reviewed in a number of publications and online, including: * ''

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''. * '' BCS''. * ''

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''. * ''

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''. * ''Realtime''. * ''

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''.

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