'In the 1960s many artists, composers, musicians and architects began to embrace open systems that emphasize organism over mechanism, dynamic processes of interaction among elements, and the participant's role as an inextricable part of aesthetic experience. This anthology traces this radical shift from its roots in systems and information theories, cybernetics and artificial intelligence to current cutting-edge science. It also explores the ways in which system-based art projects can create self-generating entities and networks, alter our experience of time, change the configurations of social relations, cross cultural borders, and interact with threatened ecosystems.

Artists surveyed include Roy Ascott, David Dunn, Briano Eno, Michael Joaquin Grey, Frank Gillette, Hans Haacke, Newton Harrison, Helen Mayer Harrison, Laurent Mignonneau, Manfred Mohr, Nam June Paik, Casey Reas, Ken Rinaldo, Tomas Saraceno, Sonia Landy Sheridan, Christa Sommerer, UBERMORGEN.COM, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Peter Weibel, John Whitney, James Whitney, Stephen Willats, Iannis Xenakis. Writers include Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherin Bateson, Pierre Bourdieu, Jack Burnham, Geoff Cox, James P.Crutchfield, Boris Groys, Francis Halsall, Usman Haque, N.Katherin Hayles, Caroline A.Jones, Stephen Jones, Christian Katti, Bruno Latour, Mary Louise Lobsinger, Niklas Luhmann, Humberto Maturana, Donella H.Meadows, William J.Mitchell, Gordon Pask, Nick Piror, Francisco Varela, Michael Weinstock.

Systems in one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art.' (Excerpt from back cover.)
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Documents of Contemporary Art

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English

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2015

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239

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9780262527194

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1

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anthology

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