Peter Weibel (ed.): Beyond Art: A Third Culture. A Comparative Study in Cultures, Art and Science in 20th Century Austria and Hungary (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art and science, art history, austria, computer art, conceptual art, cybernetics, history of science, hungary, mathematics, media art, philosophy, psychoanalysis, technology
“Austria and Hungary in the 20th century were nations that made enormous achievements in the formal sciences and arts: abstraction, logic, mathematics, physics, positivism, psychoanalysis, cybernetics, constructivism, economics, art, media art, and concept art. Art and science are usually divided into two different cultures, and nations, too, are seen as having separate ones. This book delivers a new model of consilience and convergence of art and science by closely studying in a material historical way by using a multitude of original papers and contributions, photographs, documents, bibliographies, biographies, and survey essays, the mutual influence of art and science in Austria and Hungary. In fields ranging from Gestalt psychology to Quantum physics, from constructivism to theories of vision, from holography to cyberspace, we discover a multitude of ideas, books, movements and personalities that have deeply influenced the world. Richly illustrated, the book is a nearly invaluable sourcebook, in which a new method, resembling more a CD-ROM narration than a dictionary, has been used to map an unknown horizon of knowledge. Those involved in the history of science or art and in the field of cultural theory, will find an incomparable frame of reference and information. They will discover not only genius, talents and themes they have not been aware of, but also a new model of culture, a third culture. The book is graphically and structurally user-friendly with a synopsis for each chapter, models, diagrams, images, corolaries and index etc.”
Publisher Springer, Vienna, 2005
ISBN 3211245626, 9783211245620
616 pages
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Comments (2)William Ross Ashby: Design for a Brain (1952/1954)
Filed under book | Tags: · brain, cybernetics, mathematics, neurophysiology
Landmark work of the pioneer of cybernetics.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, New York (1954)
ASIN: B0007IYC5Y
259 pages
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Comment (0)Stafford Beer: Designing Freedom (1974)
Filed under brochure | Tags: · cybernetics, systems theory
In this book, Stafford Beer states the case for a science of systems theory and cybernetics.
The collection contains text of six radio broadcasts given in the autumn of 1973 as the thirteenth series of Massey Lectures which were established in 1961 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to enable distinguished authorities in fields of general interest and importance to present the results of original study or research.
Contents: “The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear,” “The Discarded Tools of Modern Man,” “A Liberty Machine in Prototype,” “Science in the Service of Man,” “The Future That Can Be Demanded Now”, “The Free Man in a Cybernetic World”.
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