1st Edition
Art, Cybernetics and Pedagogy in Post-War Britain Roy Ascott’s Groundcourse
By Kate Sloan
Copyright 2019
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first full-length study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date. The book focuses on his early career, exploring the evolution of his early interests in communication in the context of the rich overlaps between art, science and engineering in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. The first part of the book... Read more
1. Dialogue (Introduction)
2. Metaform
3. Field
4. Analogue
5. Control
6. Calibrator
7. Game
8. Synthesizer (Conclusion)
Biography
Kate Sloan teaches for Newcastle Univerity and the University of Edinburgh, where she was previously Henry Moore Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow 2015-17.
"There is a great deal of original research here and it is a worthy contribution. One can only hope that it opens up the field of art pedagogy even further."
- Beth Williamson, Art History
