Tag: cybernetics

  • Infinite Variety: Harold Cohen and Cybernetics in the 1960s

    On the occasion of a show of Cohen’s work at Gazelli Art House in London, we consider the pioneering British artist’s transition from paint to code

  • Digital and networked art in lockdown: how can we be creative in new ways?

    Unable to open to the public, museums and galleries have been quick to offer virtual tours and exhibitions, but often the viewer is left feeling something is missing. Digital art and, in particular, art made to be viewed onscreen could…

  • Technology and Art 15: Computer graphics at Brunel

    “The potential that was so evident at the 1968 ICA exhibition is still there, but the actuality has hardly advanced at all, and this is depressing. There was always a danger that the phenomenon called computer art would come to…

  • The cybernetic sculpture of Tsai Wen-ying

    Our attitude today to machinery is such a compound of dependence, admiration and fear; and the relationship between man and machine is so fundamental to the twentieth-century environment—both physical and metaphysical—that it is not surprising if many artists have begun…

  • On art and technology

    One nice thing about technology is that it can neither be called serious nor the opposite. It just is. The matter is only to come to terms with it. Technology has a history but no destiny. It is used to…