This article offers an historical reconstruction of the “two cultures” debate in Italy, focusing on the impact on art, literature and mass media of the technical evolution from mechanization to direct interaction with computing electronic devices dur- ing the 1960s. The concept of interaction in the Information science functioned beyond a purely technological paradigm, as showed by Umberto Eco in Opera Aperta (1962) and Apocalittici ed integrati (1964), emphasizing on openness and entropy in the poetics of con- temporary art, and the dissolution of borders between artistic experimentation, mass media and quotidian life. In his influential lecture Cibernetica e fantasmi (1967) Italo Calvino argued that Artificial intelligence provided a new model of dynamic transdisciplinary exchange for the investigation of rules and patterns embedded in writing processes, exploring the possibility of a «literary automaton», capable of replacing the author.
Gli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta furono contrassegnati dal vertiginoso incremento di alcuni settori industriali (chimica, elettrodomestici, automobile, telecomunicazioni) e dalla diffusione della cultura di massa. Questo articolo ricostruisce il dibattito "due culture" in Italia focalizzandosi sull'impatto dello sviluppo della cibernetica e dell'informatizzazione sull'arte, la letteratura e i mass media.
Tecnica, estetica e processi comunicativi nel dibattito sulle “due culture” / Allocca, Nunzio. - In: VS. - ISSN 0393-8255. - STAMPA. - 125:2(2017), pp. 209-222. [10.14649/87906]
Tecnica, estetica e processi comunicativi nel dibattito sulle “due culture”
ALLOCCA, Nunzio
2017
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This article offers an historical reconstruction of the “two cultures” debate in Italy, focusing on the impact on art, literature and mass media of the technical evolution from mechanization to direct interaction with computing electronic devices dur- ing the 1960s. The concept of interaction in the Information science functioned beyond a purely technological paradigm, as showed by Umberto Eco in Opera Aperta (1962) and Apocalittici ed integrati (1964), emphasizing on openness and entropy in the poetics of con- temporary art, and the dissolution of borders between artistic experimentation, mass media and quotidian life. In his influential lecture Cibernetica e fantasmi (1967) Italo Calvino argued that Artificial intelligence provided a new model of dynamic transdisciplinary exchange for the investigation of rules and patterns embedded in writing processes, exploring the possibility of a «literary automaton», capable of replacing the author.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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