Digital Art History-Test 1-Set 1
from the Greek "Helmsman"—someone who steers and constantly adjusts the course of the boat . Military artillery guidance systems were examples of these systems.
Cybernetics
(1) the targeting of long-range weaponry (like bombs), and (2) encryption—coding and decoding communications
During World War II technology advanced for automating two things:
designed to produce a directed result.
Interaction
designed to incite active participation in viewer/user (wider range).
Interactivity
projects varying signal voltages as a 2D graph at this time, drawn by a point of light on a cathode ray tube (CRD)
Oscilloscope
Licklider advanced ideas about networked research and about improving the human-computer interaction (HCI)
Q: How did Licklider revolutionize thinking about computers?
interest in electronic media art begins in the ?
early 20th cent.