The Cybernetic Stance

My Process and Purpose

Bibliographic Data

ID3391633
AuthorsRoy Ascott (Artist living at Coalway House, Penn Fields, Wolverhampton, England, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume40
Issue2
Pages189-197
Publication date2007-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLeonardo (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/leon.2007.40.2.189
OpenAlexW2097562873
LanguageEN
Citations received13

There is apparently a paradox in that, as artists, some of us become progressively process-oriented, but continue to produce art objects. For me this is necessary since I work on two levels from a common set of attitudes: on the social level, elaborating plans for a Cybernetic Art Matrix; on the intimate level making individual art works. Both processes are concerned with creating triggers-initiating creative behaviour in the observer/participant. Modern art is characterized by a behaviourist tendency in which process and system are cardinal factors. As distinctions between music, painting, poetry, etc. become blurred and media are mixed, a bahaviourist synthesis is seen to evolve, in which dialogue and feedback within a social culture indicate the emergence of a Cybernetic vision in art as in science. My artifacts come out of a process of random behaviour interacting with pre-established conditions. The Cybernetic Art Matrix is seen as a process in which anarchic group behaviour interacts with pre-established systems of communications, hardware and learning nets. In both cases the processes are self-generating and self-critical. Basically they are initiated by creative behaviour, and in turn give rise to its extension in other people

Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive science · Cybernetics · Epistemology · Matrix (chemical analysis) · Observer (physics) · Painting · Process (computing) · Process management · Programming language · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Visual arts · Artificial Intelligence · Cognitive Science and Education Research · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Engineering · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Philosophy · Psychology · Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research

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