SYSTEMS

In the late 1950s, experiments such as the cybernetic sculptures of Nicolas Schöffer or the programmatic music compositions of J. Ca ge and Xenakis transposed systems theory from the sciences to the arts. By the 1960s, artists as diverse were breaking with accepted aesthetics to embrace open systems that emphasized organism over mechanism, dynamic processes of interaction among elements, and th e observers role as an inextricable part of the system.Jack Burnhams 1968 Artforum essay Systems Aesthetics and his 1970 Softwa re exhibition...[Llegir més]