214 Pages
10 Color & 38 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
10 Color & 38 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Drawing together key areas of cybernetic art practice in the UK and USA, this book assesses British and American cybernetic art as relating to the intersecting field of Behaviourism.
This study takes as a starting point Roy Ascott’s essay ‘Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision’ (1966) and uses it to define a field of Behaviourist art from the period 1945–1975. Kate Sloan establishes the... Read more
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Behaviourist Art
Part One: Operant Chambers
1 The Live Subject
2 Nicholas Negroponte’s Seek
3 Hans Haacke’s Living Systems
Part Two: Light Triggers
4 Flicker
5 György Kepes’ Flame Orchard
6 Otto Piene’s Light Ballets
7 Wen-Ying Tsai’s Stroboscopic Organicism
Part Three: Behaviourist Architectures
8 Architectures of Behaviour
9 Cybernetic Towers: CAVS and Schöffer
10 Temporary Architectures of Art: Keith Albarn
Index
Biography
Kate Sloan holds a lectureship in Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Edinburgh.
