Download or read book Mainframe Experimentalism written by Hannah Higgins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainframe Experimentalism challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley's technological revolutions in the 1970s. It presents a collection of essays on the early use of computers and computing in art, music, film, and poetry during the 1960s, before the advent of the PC. Douglas Kahn based at UNSW Australia.