<nettime> even in the u.s. -

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

even in the u.s. - i was in Providence in the late 60s/early 70s doing 
computer art, showing in 71; there were people working with lightshows 
earlier than that. these histories are all canonic histories and ignore - 
at least in this country - a lot of what went on. chris funkhouser's 
Prehistoric Digital Poetry covers some of this ground. and this stuff 
sloughs off into people who built video and sound synthesizers using
analog computer components - we built one of the latter in 68 from 
scratch. it's like the 'history' of electronic lit in this country - 
things like irc/newgroups/bbs/moo and mud programming are usually 
excluded. what's needed is a monumental, encyclopedic, and generous 
accounting for as much as possible world-wide, not this focus on media 
artists who happened to grab media attention. i should mention that so 
much was visible from MIT, San Francisco, NYC, LA, etc., that regional 
work was almost entirely ignored.

- Alan


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