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[[Image:Burnham_Jack_1968_Systems_Esthetics.jpg|thumb|250px|Jack Burnham, "System Esthetics", ''Artforum'', 1968, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1968_Systems_Esthetics_Artforum.pdf|PDF]].]] | [[Image:Burnham_Jack_1968_Systems_Esthetics.jpg|thumb|250px|Jack Burnham, "System Esthetics", ''Artforum'', 1968, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1968_Systems_Esthetics_Artforum.pdf|PDF]].]] | ||
− | [[Image:Burnham_Jack_Beyond_Modern_Sculpture.jpg|thumb|250px|Jack Burnham, ''Beyond Modern Sculpture'', 1968, [http://monoskop | + | |
− | [[Image:Software-catalogue.jpg|thumb|250px|''Software'' catalogue, 1970, [http://monoskop | + | [[Image:Burnham_Jack_Beyond_Modern_Sculpture.jpg|thumb|250px|Jack Burnham, ''Beyond Modern Sculpture'', 1968, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1196 Log].]] |
− | [[Image:Burnham_Jack_The_Structure_of_Art_rev_ed.jpg|thumb|250px|Jack Burnham, ''The Structure of Art'', 1971/73, [http://monoskop | + | |
− | ==Artists, | + | [[Image:Software-catalogue.jpg|thumb|250px|''Software'' catalogue, 1970, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=5886 Log], [[Media:Software_Information_Technology_Its_New_Meaning_for_Art_catalogue.pdf|PDF]].]] |
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+ | [[Image:Burnham_Jack_The_Structure_of_Art_rev_ed.jpg|thumb|250px|Jack Burnham, ''The Structure of Art'', 1971/73, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14162 Log].]] | ||
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==Exhibitions== | ==Exhibitions== | ||
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+ | * ''[http://www.dennis-young.ca/NewAlchemy.html New Alchemy: Elements, Systems, Forces / Nouvelle Alchimie: Elements, Systemes, Forces]'', Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 27 Sep-26 Oct 1969; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, 5 Nov-14 Dec 1969. | ||
* [[Software (exhibition)|''Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art'']], curated by Jack Burnham, Jewish Museum, New York, Sep-Nov 1970; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Dec 1970-Feb 1971. | * [[Software (exhibition)|''Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art'']], curated by Jack Burnham, Jewish Museum, New York, Sep-Nov 1970; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Dec 1970-Feb 1971. | ||
− | * ''[ | + | * ''[[Arte de sistemas]]'', Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Jul 1971. |
+ | * ''[https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/open-systems Open Systems Rethinking Art c.1970]'', curated by Donna de Salvo, Tate Modern, London, Jun-Sep 2005. Review: [http://www.drainmag.com/contentNOVEMBER/REVIEWS_INTERVIEWS/Open_Systems_Review.htm Coupe]. | ||
* ''[http://systemsart.org/exhibition.html Systems Art]'', Whitechapel Gallery, London, Oct-Nov 2007; symposium, 26-27 Oct 2007. | * ''[http://systemsart.org/exhibition.html Systems Art]'', Whitechapel Gallery, London, Oct-Nov 2007; symposium, 26-27 Oct 2007. | ||
+ | * ''[[Media:Arte de sistemas el CAYC y el proyecto de un nuevo arte regional 1969-1977 2013.pdf|Arte de sistemas: el CAYC y el proyecto de un nuevo arte regional 1969-1977]]'', curated by María José Herrera and Mariana Marchesi, Fundación OSDE, Buenos Aires, 2013. | ||
==Writings== | ==Writings== | ||
− | * Jack Burnham, "Sculpture, Systems and Catastrophy", ''Prologue'' | + | |
+ | * Jack Burnham, "Sculpture, Systems and Catastrophy", ''Prologue'', Winter 1966. | ||
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* Hans Haacke, [http://www.etantdonnes.com/SystemsArt/Haacke_Statement1967.html "Untitled Statement (1967)"], in Walter Grasskamp, Molly Nesbit and Jon Bird, ''Hans Haacke'', Phaidon Press, 2004, pp 102-103. Explains the difference between a "system" and a "sculpture"; previously unpublished. | * Hans Haacke, [http://www.etantdonnes.com/SystemsArt/Haacke_Statement1967.html "Untitled Statement (1967)"], in Walter Grasskamp, Molly Nesbit and Jon Bird, ''Hans Haacke'', Phaidon Press, 2004, pp 102-103. Explains the difference between a "system" and a "sculpture"; previously unpublished. | ||
− | * Jack Burnham, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1968_Systems_Esthetics_Artforum.pdf|"Systems Esthetics"]], ''Artforum'' 7:1 | + | |
− | * Jack Burnham, ''[http://monoskop | + | * Jack Burnham, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1968_Systems_Esthetics_Artforum.pdf|"Systems Esthetics"]], ''Artforum'' 7:1, Sep 1968, pp 30-35, [http://web.archive.org/web/20160319153740/https://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/jevbratt/readings/burnham_se.html HTML]; [https://monoskop.org/images/a/a9/Burnham_Jack_The_Great_Western_Salt_Works_Essays_on_the_Meaning_of_Post-Formalist_Art_1974.pdf#page=10 repr. in] Burnham, ''Great Western Salt Works'', 1974, pp 15-25; repr. in ''Systems'', ed. Edward Shanken, 2015. |
+ | ** [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1968_2012_Systemova_estetika.pdf|"Systémová estetika"]], trans. Lenka Dolanová, c2012. {{cz}} | ||
+ | ** "Esthétique des systèmes", trans. Franck Lemonde, in Jack Burnham and Hans Haacke, ''Esthétique des systèmes'', ed. & pref. Emanuele Quinz, postf. Caroline A. Jones, Paris: Les presses du réel, 2015. [http://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=3853&menu=1] {{fr}} | ||
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+ | * Jack Burnham, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1196 Beyond Modern Sculpture: The Effects of Science and Technology on the Sculpture of This Century]'', New York: George Braziller, 1968, 416 pp, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_Beyond_Modern_Sculpture.pdf|PDF]], [https://archive.org/details/beyondmodernscul0000burn IA], [https://archive.org/details/beyondmodernscul0000jack/ IA], [https://archive.org/details/beyondmodernscul00burn_0/ IA]; London: Allen Lane, 1968. | ||
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* Jack Burnham, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1969_Systems_and_Art.pdf|"Systems and Art"]], ''Arts in Society'' 6(2): "Confrontation Between Art and Technology", University of Wisconsin, Summer/Fall 1969, pp 194-204. | * Jack Burnham, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1969_Systems_and_Art.pdf|"Systems and Art"]], ''Arts in Society'' 6(2): "Confrontation Between Art and Technology", University of Wisconsin, Summer/Fall 1969, pp 194-204. | ||
− | * Jack Burnham, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1969_Real_Time_Systems.pdf|"Real Time Systems"]], ''Artforum'' 8:1 | + | |
+ | * Jack Burnham, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1969_Real_Time_Systems.pdf|"Real Time Systems"]], ''Artforum'' 8:1, Sep 1969, pp 49-55; [https://monoskop.org/images/a/a9/Burnham_Jack_The_Great_Western_Salt_Works_Essays_on_the_Meaning_of_Post-Formalist_Art_1974.pdf#page=21 repr. in] Burnham, ''Great Western Salt Works'', 1974, pp 27-38. | ||
+ | ** trans. Franck Lemonde, in Jack Burnham and Hans Haacke, ''Esthétique des systèmes'', ed. & pref. Emanuele Quinz, postf. Caroline A. Jones, Paris: Les presses du réel, 2015. [http://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=3853&menu=1] {{fr}} | ||
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* Jack Burnham, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1970_The_Aesthetics_of_Intelligent_Systems.pdf|"The Aesthetics of Intelligent Systems"]], in ''[[Media:Fry_Edward_F_ed_On_the_Future_of_Art.pdf|On the Future of Art]]'', ed. Edward F. Fry, New York: Viking Press, 1970, pp 95-122, [http://mujweb.cz/horvitz/burnham/aesth-sys.pdf PDF], [http://archive.org/details/JackBurnhamIntelligentSystems-Pulsa IA]. Presented in 1969 as a talk within the lectures series ''The Future of Art'' at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York. | * Jack Burnham, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1970_The_Aesthetics_of_Intelligent_Systems.pdf|"The Aesthetics of Intelligent Systems"]], in ''[[Media:Fry_Edward_F_ed_On_the_Future_of_Art.pdf|On the Future of Art]]'', ed. Edward F. Fry, New York: Viking Press, 1970, pp 95-122, [http://mujweb.cz/horvitz/burnham/aesth-sys.pdf PDF], [http://archive.org/details/JackBurnhamIntelligentSystems-Pulsa IA]. Presented in 1969 as a talk within the lectures series ''The Future of Art'' at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York. | ||
− | * Jack Burnham, ''[http://monoskop | + | |
− | ** ''Kunst und Strukturalismus: die neue Methode der Kunst-Interpretation'', trans. Wilhelm Höck, Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1973. {{de}} | + | * Jack Burnham, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14162 The Structure of Art]'', New York: G. Braziller, 1971; rev.ed., 1973, 195 pp, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_The_Structure_of_Art_rev_ed_OCR.pdf|PDF]]. |
+ | ** ''Kunst und Strukturalismus: die neue Methode der Kunst-Interpretation'', trans. Wilhelm Höck, Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1973. Review: [http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/kb/article/view/9497/3360 Gerhard Charles Rump] (kritische berichte). {{de}} | ||
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* Douglas Davis, [http://archive.org/stream/DouglasDavis-ArtAndTheFuture-Pulsa/Davis_Art_Future#page/n7/mode/2up "Environmental Space and Time: The 'Living' Work of Art"], in Davis, ''Art and the Future'', New York and Washington: Praeger, 1973, pp 92-95. [http://www2.iim.cz/wiki/images/6/6a/Davis.pdf] | * Douglas Davis, [http://archive.org/stream/DouglasDavis-ArtAndTheFuture-Pulsa/Davis_Art_Future#page/n7/mode/2up "Environmental Space and Time: The 'Living' Work of Art"], in Davis, ''Art and the Future'', New York and Washington: Praeger, 1973, pp 92-95. [http://www2.iim.cz/wiki/images/6/6a/Davis.pdf] | ||
− | * Jack Burnham, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1980_Art_and_Technology_The_Panacea_That_Failed.pdf|"Art and Technology: The Panacea That Failed"]], in ''The Myths of Information'', ed. Kathleen Woodward, Coda Press, 1980. | + | |
+ | * Jack Burnham, [[Media:Burnham_Jack_1980_Art_and_Technology_The_Panacea_That_Failed.pdf|"Art and Technology: The Panacea That Failed"]], in ''The Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustrial Culture'', ed. Kathleen Woodward, Madison, WI: Coda Press, 1980; repr. in ''[[Media:Hanhardt_John_ed_Video_Culture_A_Critical_Investigation.pdf|Video Culture: A Critical Investigation]]'', ed. John Hanhardt, Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986. | ||
==Catalogues== | ==Catalogues== | ||
* ''[[Media:Software_Information_Technology_Its_New_Meaning_for_Art_catalogue.pdf|Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art]]'', New York: Jewish Museum, 1970, 71 pp. | * ''[[Media:Software_Information_Technology_Its_New_Meaning_for_Art_catalogue.pdf|Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art]]'', New York: Jewish Museum, 1970, 71 pp. | ||
− | * ''Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970'', ed. Donna De Salvo, Tate Publishing, 2005, 192 pp. Review: [http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/769 Halsall] ( | + | * ''[[Media:Open Systems Rethinking Art c 1970 2005.pdf|Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970]]'', ed. Donna De Salvo, Tate Publishing, 2005, 192 pp, [https://archive.org/details/opensystemsrethi0000unse/ IA]. Review: [http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/769 Halsall] (CAA, [http://academia.edu/9267024 2006]). |
− | ==Art history | + | ==Resources== |
+ | * [http://www.etantdonnes.com/SystemsArt/ Schip's Systems Art Area] | ||
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+ | ==Art history, theory== | ||
* Marga Bijvoet, [http://web.archive.org/web/20100430195432/http://www.stichting-mai.de/hwg/amb/aai/art_as_inquiry_04.htm "Art as a Set of Relations"], ch. 3 in Bijvoet, ''Art As Inquiry: Toward New Collaborations Between Art, Science, and Technology'', Peter Lang, 1997. | * Marga Bijvoet, [http://web.archive.org/web/20100430195432/http://www.stichting-mai.de/hwg/amb/aai/art_as_inquiry_04.htm "Art as a Set of Relations"], ch. 3 in Bijvoet, ''Art As Inquiry: Toward New Collaborations Between Art, Science, and Technology'', Peter Lang, 1997. | ||
** [http://web.archive.org/web/20100430195432/http://www.stichting-mai.de/hwg/amb/aai/art_as_inquiry_04.htm "Die Kunst der Bezugsgruppe"], ch. 3 in Bijvoet, ''Kunst-Forschung'', n.d. {{de}} | ** [http://web.archive.org/web/20100430195432/http://www.stichting-mai.de/hwg/amb/aai/art_as_inquiry_04.htm "Die Kunst der Bezugsgruppe"], ch. 3 in Bijvoet, ''Kunst-Forschung'', n.d. {{de}} | ||
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* Edward A. Shanken, [http://www.responsivelandscapes.com/readings/CyberneticsArtCultConv.pdf "Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s"], in ''From Energy to Information'', eds. Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Stanford University Press, 2002, pp 155-177. | * Edward A. Shanken, [http://www.responsivelandscapes.com/readings/CyberneticsArtCultConv.pdf "Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s"], in ''From Energy to Information'', eds. Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Stanford University Press, 2002, pp 155-177. | ||
* Matthew Rampley, [http://virose.pt/vector/b_12/rampley.html "Systems Aesthetics: Burnham and Others"], ''Vector'' b 12 (2005). | * Matthew Rampley, [http://virose.pt/vector/b_12/rampley.html "Systems Aesthetics: Burnham and Others"], ''Vector'' b 12 (2005). | ||
− | * Luke Skrebowski, [http://www.tate.org.uk/download/file/fid/7301 "All Systems Go: Recovering Jack Burnham's 'System Aesthetics'"], ''Tate Papers'' (Spring 2006) | + | * Luke Skrebowski, [http://www.tate.org.uk/download/file/fid/7301 "All Systems Go: Recovering Jack Burnham's 'System Aesthetics'"], ''Tate Papers'' (Spring 2006). |
− | * Charlie Gere, ''[http://monoskop | + | * Charlie Gere, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=231 Art, Time, and Technology]'', Berg, 2006. Esp. chapters 6-7. |
* Edward A. Shanken, [http://artexetra.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/shankenhatmethodcanondraft.pdf "Historicizing Art and Technology: Forging a Method, Firing a Canon"], in ''Media Art Histories'', ed. Oliver Grau, MIT Press, 2007, pp 43-70. | * Edward A. Shanken, [http://artexetra.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/shankenhatmethodcanondraft.pdf "Historicizing Art and Technology: Forging a Method, Firing a Canon"], in ''Media Art Histories'', ed. Oliver Grau, MIT Press, 2007, pp 43-70. | ||
* Art & Language, [http://systemsart.org/a_lpaper.html "Not Quite The Belaqua Pose – A talk in three voices"], 2007. Presented at ''Systems Art: Symposium'', London, Oct 2007. | * Art & Language, [http://systemsart.org/a_lpaper.html "Not Quite The Belaqua Pose – A talk in three voices"], 2007. Presented at ''Systems Art: Symposium'', London, Oct 2007. | ||
* Robert Linsley, [http://systemsart.org/linsley_paper.html "From Social Frames to Knowledge Planes: Luhmann Contra the Neo Avant-Garde"], 2007. Presented at ''Systems Art: Symposium'', London, Oct 2007. | * Robert Linsley, [http://systemsart.org/linsley_paper.html "From Social Frames to Knowledge Planes: Luhmann Contra the Neo Avant-Garde"], 2007. Presented at ''Systems Art: Symposium'', London, Oct 2007. | ||
* Francis Halsall, [http://systemsart.org/halsall_paper.html "Systems Aesthetics and the System as Medium"], 2007. Presented at ''Systems Art: Symposium'', London, Oct 2007; based on the author's 2008 book.. | * Francis Halsall, [http://systemsart.org/halsall_paper.html "Systems Aesthetics and the System as Medium"], 2007. Presented at ''Systems Art: Symposium'', London, Oct 2007; based on the author's 2008 book.. | ||
− | * Francis Halsall, ''[http:// | + | * Francis Halsall, ''[http://academia.edu/9267022 Systems of Art: Art, History and Systems Theory]'', forew. Kitty Zijlmans, Peter Lang, 2008. |
+ | * Luke Skrebowski, [http://cast.b-ap.net/arc619f11/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2011/09/skrebowski-HaackesSystemArt.pdf "All Systems Go: Recovering Hans Haacke's Systems Art"], ''Grey Room'' 30 (Winter 2008), pp 54-83. | ||
* Caroline Jones, "Systems Symptoms: Jack Burnham’s 'Systems Esthetics'", ''Artforum'' (Sep 2012). [http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201207&id=32014] | * Caroline Jones, "Systems Symptoms: Jack Burnham’s 'Systems Esthetics'", ''Artforum'' (Sep 2012). [http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201207&id=32014] | ||
− | * Caroline A. Jones, [ | + | * Caroline A. Jones, [[Media:Hans_Haacke_1967_2011.pdf|"Hans Haacke 1967"]], in ''Hans Haacke 1967'', Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2011, pp 6-28. |
− | * Edward Shanken, [ | + | * Edward Shanken, [https://artexetra.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/0008_shanken.pdf "Reprogramming Systems Aesthetics: A Strategic Historiography"], in ''Relive: Media Art Histories'', eds. Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas, MIT Press, 2013, pp 83-96. [http://books.google.com/books?id=OXTtAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA83] |
− | * Edward A. Shanken (ed.), ''Systems'', London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2015, 240 pp. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/systems] | + | * Edward A. Shanken (ed.), ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5721b19d9ff37c05dd61dddd Systems]'', London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2015, 240 pp. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/systems] |
− | + | * Jason A. Hoelscher, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=C10940BF48DF7E19B91DA114203D52E1 Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics]'', Duke University Press, 2021, 288 pp. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/art-as-information-ecology] | |
− | + | * Johanna Gosse, Timothy Stott (eds.), ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=630AAC27143B2070C156C179A802FD31 Nervous Systems: Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s]'', Duke University Press, 2022, 304 pp. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/nervous-systems Publisher]. | |
− | * [http://www. | + | * Adam Lauder, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=0B175BA027CF1155008039EDE2749BB5 Out of School: Information Art and the Toronto School of Communication]'', McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. |
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
− | + | [[Conceptual art]], [[Systems theory]] | |
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− | {{Art | + | {{Art}} |
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Artists, theorists[edit]
Exhibitions[edit]
- New Alchemy: Elements, Systems, Forces / Nouvelle Alchimie: Elements, Systemes, Forces, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 27 Sep-26 Oct 1969; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, 5 Nov-14 Dec 1969.
- Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art, curated by Jack Burnham, Jewish Museum, New York, Sep-Nov 1970; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Dec 1970-Feb 1971.
- Arte de sistemas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Jul 1971.
- Open Systems Rethinking Art c.1970, curated by Donna de Salvo, Tate Modern, London, Jun-Sep 2005. Review: Coupe.
- Systems Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Oct-Nov 2007; symposium, 26-27 Oct 2007.
- Arte de sistemas: el CAYC y el proyecto de un nuevo arte regional 1969-1977, curated by María José Herrera and Mariana Marchesi, Fundación OSDE, Buenos Aires, 2013.
Writings[edit]
- Jack Burnham, "Sculpture, Systems and Catastrophy", Prologue, Winter 1966.
- Hans Haacke, "Untitled Statement (1967)", in Walter Grasskamp, Molly Nesbit and Jon Bird, Hans Haacke, Phaidon Press, 2004, pp 102-103. Explains the difference between a "system" and a "sculpture"; previously unpublished.
- Jack Burnham, "Systems Esthetics", Artforum 7:1, Sep 1968, pp 30-35, HTML; repr. in Burnham, Great Western Salt Works, 1974, pp 15-25; repr. in Systems, ed. Edward Shanken, 2015.
- "Systémová estetika", trans. Lenka Dolanová, c2012. (Czech)
- "Esthétique des systèmes", trans. Franck Lemonde, in Jack Burnham and Hans Haacke, Esthétique des systèmes, ed. & pref. Emanuele Quinz, postf. Caroline A. Jones, Paris: Les presses du réel, 2015. [1] (French)
- Jack Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture: The Effects of Science and Technology on the Sculpture of This Century, New York: George Braziller, 1968, 416 pp, PDF, IA, IA, IA; London: Allen Lane, 1968.
- Jack Burnham, "Systems and Art", Arts in Society 6(2): "Confrontation Between Art and Technology", University of Wisconsin, Summer/Fall 1969, pp 194-204.
- Jack Burnham, "Real Time Systems", Artforum 8:1, Sep 1969, pp 49-55; repr. in Burnham, Great Western Salt Works, 1974, pp 27-38.
- trans. Franck Lemonde, in Jack Burnham and Hans Haacke, Esthétique des systèmes, ed. & pref. Emanuele Quinz, postf. Caroline A. Jones, Paris: Les presses du réel, 2015. [2] (French)
- Jack Burnham, "The Aesthetics of Intelligent Systems", in On the Future of Art, ed. Edward F. Fry, New York: Viking Press, 1970, pp 95-122, PDF, IA. Presented in 1969 as a talk within the lectures series The Future of Art at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York.
- Jack Burnham, The Structure of Art, New York: G. Braziller, 1971; rev.ed., 1973, 195 pp, PDF.
- Kunst und Strukturalismus: die neue Methode der Kunst-Interpretation, trans. Wilhelm Höck, Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1973. Review: Gerhard Charles Rump (kritische berichte). (German)
- Douglas Davis, "Environmental Space and Time: The 'Living' Work of Art", in Davis, Art and the Future, New York and Washington: Praeger, 1973, pp 92-95. [3]
- Jack Burnham, "Art and Technology: The Panacea That Failed", in The Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustrial Culture, ed. Kathleen Woodward, Madison, WI: Coda Press, 1980; repr. in Video Culture: A Critical Investigation, ed. John Hanhardt, Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986.
Catalogues[edit]
- Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art, New York: Jewish Museum, 1970, 71 pp.
- Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970, ed. Donna De Salvo, Tate Publishing, 2005, 192 pp, IA. Review: Halsall (CAA, 2006).
Resources[edit]
Art history, theory[edit]
- Marga Bijvoet, "Art as a Set of Relations", ch. 3 in Bijvoet, Art As Inquiry: Toward New Collaborations Between Art, Science, and Technology, Peter Lang, 1997.
- "Die Kunst der Bezugsgruppe", ch. 3 in Bijvoet, Kunst-Forschung, n.d. (German)
- Marga Bijvoet, "Hans Haacke: Systems Artist", ch. 4 in Bijvoet, Art As Inquiry: Toward New Collaborations Between Art, Science, and Technology, Peter Lang, 1997.
- "Hans Haacke: System-Künstler", ch. 4 in Bijvoet, Kunst-Forschung, n.d. (German)
- Mitchell Whitelaw, "1968/1998: Rethinking A Systems Aesthetic", ANAT News 33 (May 1998).
- Simon Penny, "Systems Aesthetics + Cyborg Art: The Legacy of Jack Burnham", Sculpture 18:1 (Jan/Feb 1999). [4]
- Michael Corris, "Systems Upgrade (Conceptual Art and the Recoding of Information, Knowledge and Technology)", Mute 1:22 (10 Dec 2001).
- Edward A. Shanken, "Art in the Information Age: Technology and Conceptual Art", Leonardo 35:4 (2002), pp 433-438.
- Edward A. Shanken, "Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s", in From Energy to Information, eds. Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Stanford University Press, 2002, pp 155-177.
- Matthew Rampley, "Systems Aesthetics: Burnham and Others", Vector b 12 (2005).
- Luke Skrebowski, "All Systems Go: Recovering Jack Burnham's 'System Aesthetics'", Tate Papers (Spring 2006).
- Charlie Gere, Art, Time, and Technology, Berg, 2006. Esp. chapters 6-7.
- Edward A. Shanken, "Historicizing Art and Technology: Forging a Method, Firing a Canon", in Media Art Histories, ed. Oliver Grau, MIT Press, 2007, pp 43-70.
- Art & Language, "Not Quite The Belaqua Pose – A talk in three voices", 2007. Presented at Systems Art: Symposium, London, Oct 2007.
- Robert Linsley, "From Social Frames to Knowledge Planes: Luhmann Contra the Neo Avant-Garde", 2007. Presented at Systems Art: Symposium, London, Oct 2007.
- Francis Halsall, "Systems Aesthetics and the System as Medium", 2007. Presented at Systems Art: Symposium, London, Oct 2007; based on the author's 2008 book..
- Francis Halsall, Systems of Art: Art, History and Systems Theory, forew. Kitty Zijlmans, Peter Lang, 2008.
- Luke Skrebowski, "All Systems Go: Recovering Hans Haacke's Systems Art", Grey Room 30 (Winter 2008), pp 54-83.
- Caroline Jones, "Systems Symptoms: Jack Burnham’s 'Systems Esthetics'", Artforum (Sep 2012). [5]
- Caroline A. Jones, "Hans Haacke 1967", in Hans Haacke 1967, Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2011, pp 6-28.
- Edward Shanken, "Reprogramming Systems Aesthetics: A Strategic Historiography", in Relive: Media Art Histories, eds. Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas, MIT Press, 2013, pp 83-96. [6]
- Edward A. Shanken (ed.), Systems, London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2015, 240 pp. [7]
- Jason A. Hoelscher, Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics, Duke University Press, 2021, 288 pp. [8]
- Johanna Gosse, Timothy Stott (eds.), Nervous Systems: Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s, Duke University Press, 2022, 304 pp. Publisher.
- Adam Lauder, Out of School: Information Art and the Toronto School of Communication, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
See also[edit]
Conceptual art, Systems theory
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