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White Heat Cold Logic : Early British Computer Art 1960-1980

This book came out of an AHRC large research grant to research early British computer art. The three-year project, which had a quarter of a million pounds funding, involved uncovering original artistic material, and interviewing often-underappreciated or forgotten pioneers, or their colleagues, and relatives. It also necessitated close contact and work with other organisations, many of which are outside higher education, including the Computer Arts Society, the British Association of Computing, the Arts Council, the Institute for Contemporary Arts, and others. The pioneers mentioned above, as well as experts in the fields concerned contributed essays to the book. As evinced by its publication by MIT, though it concerned British work, it contributes to a more general international drive to recover forgotten histories of new media art. The project out of which it emerged has also enabled the Victoria and Albert Museum to become the first major institution to collect and exhibit this kind of work. It has also led directly or inspired similar projects across the globe. Charlie Gere was principle investigator for the AHRB project, and lead editor for the book, as well as the author of the introduction.