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Thesis Info

LABS ID
00511
Thesis Title
Behind the Silicon Curtain: Computer Art in the Eastern Bloc
Author
Todor Bozhinov
2nd Author
3rd Author
Degree
Master of Arts
Year
September 2015
Number of Pages
67
University
University of the Arts Bremen
Thesis Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Frieder Nake
Supervisor e-mail
nake AT informatik.uni-bremen.de
Other Supervisor(s)
Language(s) of Thesis
English
Department / Discipline
Digital Media
Languages Familiar to Author
English, German, Spanish, Bulgarian
URL where full thesis can be found
drive.google.com/file/d/0B6czavh6O2L2alhmV1VYYkt4WjA/view?usp=sharing
Keywords
computer art, history, computing, Eastern Bloc, Iron Curtain
Abstract: 200-500 words
From the end of World War II until the revolutions at the turn of the 1990s, an Iron Curtain divided the capitalist Western Europe from the Soviet-dominated, communist Eastern Bloc. Does a Silicon Curtain still keep the history of Eastern Bloc computer art away from researchers? Elaborating on computer art in each Eastern Bloc country and attempting to place the events in a political and social context, this master’s thesis aims to be a dent in the curtain and to throw light on computer art in the Eastern Bloc.