Tag: Jonathan Benthall

  • The Sociology of Knowledge

    “The sociology of knowledge is sure to be an eventful area of debate over the next few years”

  • Technology and art 20

    On industrializ­ation and machinery in The Red Desert; on ‘Ecogame’ designed as a continuous interactive game-like situation; and on Support Languages/Art Language.

  • 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…

  • Technology and art 8: `The prehistory of the visible’

    To read Burnham on vitalist or biomorphic sculpture is to be reminded that there is no apparent correlation between the stature of a given artist and the validity of his scientific assumptions. The discontinuities between science and modern art are…

  • Technology and Art

    An artist can acquire such [technical] skills for himself or he can borrow other people’s.

  • 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…

  • Cybernetic Serendipity: Correspondence

    ‘Cybernetics includes all observable systems—whether biological, electronic, industrial, economic or anything else.’