Software – Information Technology Its New Meaning for ArtNelson, Negroponte, Levine

– Referencing The New Media Reader, Wardrip-Fruin & Montfort

Catalog: Software – Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art. Catalog of exhibition held at Jewish Museum, Washington D.C., September – November 1970.

Exhibits:•Woodman/Nelson. Labyrinth: An Interactive Catalog. 1970.The Architecture Machine Group (Negroponte), MIT. Seek. (see CD)•Levine. Systems Burn-off X Residual Software. •Levine. Wire Tap.

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Othe 1970 events and trivia• This link chronicles the events.

• Other trivia …

• In 1970 an average suburban home was $23,400.00

• Average income per year was $9,350.00, a gallon of gas 36 cents

• Average cost of new car was $3,900.00; Eggs 25 cents per dozen

About Software … from NWF and NM

• At 1970 Software exhibition, held at the Jewish Museum in New York, visitors were invited to operate computers.

• Goal was “to focus our sensibilities on the fastest growing area in this culture: information processing systems and their devices.”

• Critics noted it was “a disaster,” computers didn’t work, gerbils attacked each other, caused a financial crisis for the museum and dismissal of the director (Burnam, the organizer relates certain “mysterious circumstances.”

• Talmudic scholars and rabbis muttered darkly about inappropriateness of exhibition in this hall of Jewish Studies.

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