Week 3
Reading Homework:

Kybernetes

Emerald Arttcle:Don't give up! Media art as an endless conventional process

Graziele Lautenschaeger,Anja Pratsschke  

"We assume that the cybernetic way of seeing can guide our art production towards more

propositions along the above lines. Significant examples of artistic embodiments of

cybernetic ideas may be found in Pask’s and Ascott’s works. According to Pask (1971),

the production of aesthetically powerful environments requires the following qualities:

 

 

1)   the environment needs to offer enough variety to promote the “potentially

controllable novelty” by the subject;

 

 

2)    it must contain forms that the subject may interpret, or learn to play at various

 

                                                                           abstraction levels:

 

3)  it needs to provide clues or instructions implicitly declared to guide the learning

and abstractive processes; and

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4)  it can additionally respond to the subject, involving it in a conversation and

adapting its characteristics to the dominant mode of discourse (Pask, 1971, p. 76)."

 

 

 



 I believe that when there is a strict guideline, it tends to constrict the art process. It creates a challenge to meet the standard and sometime the art maybe lost in the refinement of guidelines.