Working Information Vol. 3, 1978. Jean Spencer (ed.) Including a rare recording of Artificial Intelligence audio works
One of 250 numbered copies of the third volume of the rare journal Working Information produced by the Constructionist artist Jean Spencer in August 1978. Featuring groundbreaking computer assisted drawings and generative audio executed by Artificial Intelligence using computers programmed by artists at Malcolm Hughes’ Experimental and Computing Department at The Slade School of Art. Included in this volume are six pioneers of the computational arts: Peter Beyls, Chris Briscoe, Chris Crabtree, Stephen Scrivener, Julian Sullivan and Darrell Viner.
Includes the extremely rare original cassette tape which accompanied this issue, containing recordings of two audio pieces written and performed by a computer programmed by Chris Briscoe at The Slade in 1978. Most of Briscoe’s work from this early period has been lost.
Many of the artists were associated with the Slade School of Art’s Experimental Department (later renamed the Experimental and Computing Department) set up by Jean Spencer’s husband and fellow System’s Group artist, Malcolm Hughes, in the early 1970s. In 1974 the department acquired a dedicated Data General Nova 2 Minicomputer, precipitating an important period in the development of Artificial Intelligence in the Arts in the UK.
In 1978, the same year this issue of Working Information was released, Spencer also curated the Curwen Slade Print Portfolio "UCL 150th Anniversary 1828-1978" which contained work by all of the artists then teaching at the Slade and included computer-generated works by Briscoe, Sullivan and Crabtree. A copy was presented to UCLʼs then Chancellor, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Other examples are held in the collections of The Arts Council and the Government Art Collection.
Working information was produced by Jean Spencer from her home in South West London between 1977 and 1978. This is the third volume produced in an edition of 500 copies, 250 of which were numbered. This copy being number 193 of 250.
Price: £500
Title: Working Information 3
Publisher: Jean Spencer
Publication date: 1978
Format: stapled wraps
Total Pages: 44
Images: illustrated in b/w throughout
Condition: The cassette is in perfect condition. The catalogue covers with several bumps, dents and handling marks. Internally very good. Further images available on request.
Provenance: The Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02831
Source: Gere C., P. Brown, N. Lambert & C. Mason (eds.) “White Heat and Cold Logic: British Computer Arts 1960 – 1980: An historical and critical analysis” , MIT Press, 2007
One of 250 numbered copies of the third volume of the rare journal Working Information produced by the Constructionist artist Jean Spencer in August 1978. Featuring groundbreaking computer assisted drawings and generative audio executed by Artificial Intelligence using computers programmed by artists at Malcolm Hughes’ Experimental and Computing Department at The Slade School of Art. Included in this volume are six pioneers of the computational arts: Peter Beyls, Chris Briscoe, Chris Crabtree, Stephen Scrivener, Julian Sullivan and Darrell Viner.
Includes the extremely rare original cassette tape which accompanied this issue, containing recordings of two audio pieces written and performed by a computer programmed by Chris Briscoe at The Slade in 1978. Most of Briscoe’s work from this early period has been lost.
Many of the artists were associated with the Slade School of Art’s Experimental Department (later renamed the Experimental and Computing Department) set up by Jean Spencer’s husband and fellow System’s Group artist, Malcolm Hughes, in the early 1970s. In 1974 the department acquired a dedicated Data General Nova 2 Minicomputer, precipitating an important period in the development of Artificial Intelligence in the Arts in the UK.
In 1978, the same year this issue of Working Information was released, Spencer also curated the Curwen Slade Print Portfolio "UCL 150th Anniversary 1828-1978" which contained work by all of the artists then teaching at the Slade and included computer-generated works by Briscoe, Sullivan and Crabtree. A copy was presented to UCLʼs then Chancellor, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Other examples are held in the collections of The Arts Council and the Government Art Collection.
Working information was produced by Jean Spencer from her home in South West London between 1977 and 1978. This is the third volume produced in an edition of 500 copies, 250 of which were numbered. This copy being number 193 of 250.
Price: £500
Title: Working Information 3
Publisher: Jean Spencer
Publication date: 1978
Format: stapled wraps
Total Pages: 44
Images: illustrated in b/w throughout
Condition: The cassette is in perfect condition. The catalogue covers with several bumps, dents and handling marks. Internally very good. Further images available on request.
Provenance: The Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02831
Source: Gere C., P. Brown, N. Lambert & C. Mason (eds.) “White Heat and Cold Logic: British Computer Arts 1960 – 1980: An historical and critical analysis” , MIT Press, 2007
One of 250 numbered copies of the third volume of the rare journal Working Information produced by the Constructionist artist Jean Spencer in August 1978. Featuring groundbreaking computer assisted drawings and generative audio executed by Artificial Intelligence using computers programmed by artists at Malcolm Hughes’ Experimental and Computing Department at The Slade School of Art. Included in this volume are six pioneers of the computational arts: Peter Beyls, Chris Briscoe, Chris Crabtree, Stephen Scrivener, Julian Sullivan and Darrell Viner.
Includes the extremely rare original cassette tape which accompanied this issue, containing recordings of two audio pieces written and performed by a computer programmed by Chris Briscoe at The Slade in 1978. Most of Briscoe’s work from this early period has been lost.
Many of the artists were associated with the Slade School of Art’s Experimental Department (later renamed the Experimental and Computing Department) set up by Jean Spencer’s husband and fellow System’s Group artist, Malcolm Hughes, in the early 1970s. In 1974 the department acquired a dedicated Data General Nova 2 Minicomputer, precipitating an important period in the development of Artificial Intelligence in the Arts in the UK.
In 1978, the same year this issue of Working Information was released, Spencer also curated the Curwen Slade Print Portfolio "UCL 150th Anniversary 1828-1978" which contained work by all of the artists then teaching at the Slade and included computer-generated works by Briscoe, Sullivan and Crabtree. A copy was presented to UCLʼs then Chancellor, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Other examples are held in the collections of The Arts Council and the Government Art Collection.
Working information was produced by Jean Spencer from her home in South West London between 1977 and 1978. This is the third volume produced in an edition of 500 copies, 250 of which were numbered. This copy being number 193 of 250.
Price: £500
Title: Working Information 3
Publisher: Jean Spencer
Publication date: 1978
Format: stapled wraps
Total Pages: 44
Images: illustrated in b/w throughout
Condition: The cassette is in perfect condition. The catalogue covers with several bumps, dents and handling marks. Internally very good. Further images available on request.
Provenance: The Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02831
Source: Gere C., P. Brown, N. Lambert & C. Mason (eds.) “White Heat and Cold Logic: British Computer Arts 1960 – 1980: An historical and critical analysis” , MIT Press, 2007
