On 07/10/13 11:35 PM, Randall Packer wrote:
> An important precursor is the Information show curated by Kynastan McShine
> at MoMA in 1970.
Also in the Conceptual era, Art and Language turned their sprawling
conversational artistic practice as captured in articles and transcripts
into a Google-style but paper-based series of "indexes" starting with
Index 001 (1972).
The perceived hermeticism of Art and Language at that time, their use of
information technology (later including microfilm and computer
printouts) and their blurring of "the art" with "the conversation" all
producing a publicly-searchable record that existed regardless of
whether there was a public for it outside of the group remind me very
much of mailing lists. :-)
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