Cybernetic art

Cybernetic art is contemporary art that builds upon the legacy of Cybernetic, where feedback involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.

Wen-Ying Tsai's Cybernetic Sculpture System No. 1, 1968

Quotes

• Recognition that art was located in an interactive system rather than residing in a material object... provid[ed] a discipline as central to an art of interactivity as anatomy and perspective had been to the renaissance vision.
  • Roy Ascott, “Interactive Art,” unpublished manuscript, 1994, p. 3; as cited in: Edward A. Shanken. "Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s." 2002

• The cybernetic art team >bcd< believes that the cybernetic art environment, initially involved with pattern recognition and artificial intelligence research in art and science, can make an important contribution t intersubjective communication and to the sharing of insight between people. The cybernetic sculpture Instantaneous, which was presented for the first time during the Rome colloquium, illustrates the existence of instantaneous communication on a truly parallel architecture based on 16 Compaq Deskpro 386 computers. It also signifies a true parallel processing mode (as experienced in extrasensory perception) in which 'time sequence', 'before' or 'after' hardly have meaning. The cybernetic sculpture instantaneous is seen as a contribution to a new communication medium between artists working interactively within the same system. This is a step towards intersubjective communication, through the process of reflection between artists and a transcendental Galois field.
  • Vladimir Bonacić, "A Transcendental Concept for Cybernetic Art in the 21st Century." Leonardo (1989): 109-111.

• Hungarian-born artist Nicolas Schöffer created his first cybernetic sculptures CYSP 0 and CYSP I (the titles of which combined the first two letters of “cybernetic” and “spatio-dynamique”) in 1956.
  • Edward A. Shanken. "Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s." 2002

• Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is

more important, and the latter need not be cybernated. . . .

Cybernetics, the science of pure relations, or relationship

itself, has its origin in karma. . .

The Buddhists also say

Karma is samsara

Relationship is metempsychosis

• Nam June Paik, “Cybernated Art,” in Manifestos, Great Bear Pamphlets, (New York: Something Else Press, 1966), p. 24; Quoted in: Edward A. Shanken, "Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s," in: From Energy to Information: Representation in Science, Technology, Art, and Literature, Stanford University Press, Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson (eds.), 2002.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Cybernetic art on Wikipedia