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Media Sculpture: The Cybernetic Condition

No. 12 (2022-09-01)
  • Claudia Giannetti
    Investigadora Independiente, España
https://doi.org/10.25025/hart12.2022.06

Abstract

In the twentieth century, sculpture underwent radical aesthetic and technical changes as a result of several factors. Among them, the influence of new scientific theories. In this text I explore synthetically some of these changes in the field of sculpture and, in particular, the influence of cybernetic theory on sculpture using electronic and digital technologies. I briefly analyze the impact of these transformations on aesthetic theories.

Keywords: Media sculpture, cybernetics, media art, art, science, technology, contemporary aesthetics, cybernetic aesthetics

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Este ensayo se publicará en inglés en: Ursula Ströbele y Mara-JohannaKölmel (ed.). The Sculptural in the Post-(Digital Age). Berlín: De Gruyter, 2023.

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