The Magazine of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 5-6: Cybernetic Serendipity (1968)

26 October 2018, dusan

Two issues of ICA London’s magazine dedicated to the seminal exhibition exploring relationships between arts and cybernetics, Cybernetic Serendipity.

The Issue 5 contains texts by Martin Gardner on Op art, Pierre Barbaud on information theory and music, Charles Csuri on his computer art, and an essay on Andrew Rawlinson’s concrete poetry.

The Issue 6 has texts by Daphne Oram, Max Bense, Petar Milojevic, and Nam June Paik.

Edited by Jasia Reichardt
Publisher Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Aug & Sep 1968
38 & 38 pages

Issue 5: PDF (41 MB, via johnsta)
Issue 6: PDF (3 MB, added on 2022-12-15, via Experimental TV Center)

Max Bense, Elisabeth Walther (eds.): rot 21: konkrete poesie international (1965)

7 January 2018, dusan

An anthology of concrete poetry. Special issue of rot.

Works by diter rot, edwin morgan, ian hamilton finlay, vagn steen, emmet williams, peter greenham, ladislaw novák, josef hirsal und bohumila grögerová, paul de vree, pierre garnier, john j. sharkey, dom sylvester houédard, yüksel pazarkaya, mathias goeritz, carlo belloli, eugen gomringer, gerhard rühm, ernst jandl, kurt sanmark, åke hodell, leif nylén, hans-jørgen nielsen, jörgen nash, augusto de campos, ronaldo azeredo, haroldo de campos, josé lino grünewald, franz mon, décio pignatari, reinhard döhl, timm ulrichs, konrad balder schäuffelen, edgar braga, pedro xisto, claus bremer, helmut heißenbüttel.

With an Afterword by Max Bense
Published in Stuttgart, May 1965
Cover design Walter Faigle
Printing Hansjörg Mayer
ISBN 3874510212
[46] pages
via Archivio Maurizio Spatola

PDF (10 MB)

Richard Kostelanetz (ed.): Text–Sound Texts (1980)

28 July 2017, dusan

Anthology of scores, scripts, instructions, diagrams and documentation of art works that are meant to be heard. With more than one hundred pieces from a broad range of the 1960’s and 1970’s experimental artists from the music, art, literature, theater, and film worlds, including: John Cage, Guy de Coinet, Else von Freytag-Loringhoven, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Glenn Gould, Dick Higgins, Jack Kerouac, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, Jackson Mac Low, bp Nichol, Claes Oldenburg, Mary Ellen Solt, Gertrude Stein, Emmett Williams, and Robert Wilson, among others.

Publisher William Morrow, New York, 1980
ISBN 0688036163, 9780688036164
441 pages, 23.5 x 16 cm

WorldCat

PDF (100 MB)