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Paper: sigradi2005_463
| Paper title: | COMPUTER CITY, 1964 [CIUDAD COMPUTADORA, 1964] |
| Authors: | Costa Cabral, Cláudia Piantá |
| Summary: | This paper is about an emblematic design of the sixties, Dennis Crompton’s Computer City, published in 1964 by Archigram Magazine. Besides other enterprises of its time, Archigram promoted a critical view over institutionalised post-war modernism for not being able to recognize the emergence of new social realities, identified with the new technologies of automation and information, the restructuring of capitalist fordism and the shift from a predominantly industrial culture to an electronic culture. This paper sustains that more than a direct translation of unquestionable technical necessities; it was a conscious attempt of producing a sort of representation of technology. Crompton’s design clearly demonstrates the actual change in the character of technology, when it is no longer primarily identified with artefacts and objects, as the machine, and seems to be progressively identified with abstract and ubiquitous systems and processes of control, as automation and information systems. [Full paper in Portuguese] |
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| Year of publication: | 2005 |
| Series: | CUMINCADes:SIGRADI |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/sigradi2005_463.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Costa Cabral, Cláudia Piantá (2005). COMPUTER CITY, 1964 [CIUDAD COMPUTADORA, 1964]. SIGraDi 2005 - [Proceedings of the 9th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Lima - Peru 21-24 november 2005, vol. 1, pp. 463-467, http://itc.scix.net/paper/sigradi2005_463 |
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