Sloan, Kate, 1979-
Art, cybernetics, and pedagogy in post-war Britain : Roy Ascott's Groundcourse / Kate Sloan. - 1 online resource. - Routledge advances in art and visual studies .
Introduction : Dialogue -- Metaform -- Analogue -- Field -- Control -- Calibrator -- Game -- Synthesizer.
This is the first full-length study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date. The book focuses on his early career, exploring the evolution of his early interests in communication in the context of the rich overlaps between art, science and engineering in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. The first part of the book looks at Ascott's training and early work, while the second looks solely at Groundcourse, Ascott's extraordinary pedagogical model for visual arts and cybernetics which used an integrative and systems-based model, drawing in behaviourism, analogue machines, performance and games. Using hitherto unpublished photographs and documents, this book will forge a more prominent place for cybernetics in post-war British art.
9780429468018 0429468016 9780429886362 0429886365 9780429886348 0429886349 9780429886355 0429886357
Ascott, Roy.
Art and technology--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Artists as teachers--Great Britain.
Art--Study and teaching (Higher)--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Education--Experimental methods.
ART / General
ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
COMPUTERS / Cybernetics
N332.G73 / S59 2019eb
701/.05
Art, cybernetics, and pedagogy in post-war Britain : Roy Ascott's Groundcourse / Kate Sloan. - 1 online resource. - Routledge advances in art and visual studies .
Introduction : Dialogue -- Metaform -- Analogue -- Field -- Control -- Calibrator -- Game -- Synthesizer.
This is the first full-length study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date. The book focuses on his early career, exploring the evolution of his early interests in communication in the context of the rich overlaps between art, science and engineering in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. The first part of the book looks at Ascott's training and early work, while the second looks solely at Groundcourse, Ascott's extraordinary pedagogical model for visual arts and cybernetics which used an integrative and systems-based model, drawing in behaviourism, analogue machines, performance and games. Using hitherto unpublished photographs and documents, this book will forge a more prominent place for cybernetics in post-war British art.
9780429468018 0429468016 9780429886362 0429886365 9780429886348 0429886349 9780429886355 0429886357
Ascott, Roy.
Art and technology--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Artists as teachers--Great Britain.
Art--Study and teaching (Higher)--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Education--Experimental methods.
ART / General
ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
COMPUTERS / Cybernetics
N332.G73 / S59 2019eb
701/.05