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.