Author

Northern Sparks: Innovation, Technology Policy and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age. MIT Press, 2022

Northern Sparks is about the intersecting histories of technological innovation, new media arts, and policies for supporting arts and innovation in Canada from the 1960s to the early 1990s.

Reviews

Schuld, Dawna in Technology and Culture 64, no. 4 (October, 2023) excerpt:

Like the narrator in a science fiction alternate history plot, author Michael Century guides readers through a series of historical case studies that show how technology and culture might have codeveloped if publicly mandated but human-scaled intermedial models had prevailed.  …. [T]his is less a history of technology and culture as it is one of technology as culture … [A] history of alternatives suggests that there are alternative presents to be explored as well.

Humanities-Net, by Erin Dickey: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58169

Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture. This report presents a multi-perspective framework from which to view the rising density of communication between the worlds of art, technology, and science. Commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation.