Any time you want to find books about an artist or a book mentioned in one of my posts, just enter the words in the WorldCat search box. It will locate books near you (probably only in bigger libraries) about the word entered.
I tried it for my post of September 18, 2006. The search found books about Cybernetic Serendipity near me (you have to tell WorldCat where you live), two about Ben Laposky, one published by Bitforms Gallery. It got a bit weird when I tried Atari Archives, but it found lots of stuff about Atari.
September 27, 2006
WorldCat Search on sidebar
September 18, 2006
bitforms gallery - Scratchcode
This exhibit at the bitforms gallery shows work of some early computer artists. Back in April of 2006, when I first viewed the show, it had its own link. Now you have to click on exhibitions --> past exhibitions and scroll through the list until you find it - stops along the way are encouraged. Screen one of the show description mentions Cybernetic Serendipity. Not all the artists in this show had work in the CS show but one who did is Ben F. Laposky. A short article by him, with pictures, is at atariarchives.org. Another artist from Cybernetic Serendipity I noticed on second viewing is Frieder Nake. The links I found for him in Google and Wikipedia weren't much help in finding other examples of his art.
[edited January 24, 2007]
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