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FA is regarded as the same CMM as the GR and the GR is the same
CMM as (e.g.) “a new order” FA (e.g. morphologically a member of
another class of objects): by transitivity the FA is the same CMM as
the “new shape/order one”.'
At first it was a little difficult to distinguish between Conceptual
Art and Cybernetic Art, as was demonstrated by the inclusion of
examples of both in the
show 'Software, Information Techno-
logy: Its New Meaning for Art', held at the Jewish Museum in
New York. The show was curated by Jack Burnham, whose topic
The End of Sculpture
was, and indeed remains, a key text for those
interested in the coming together of art and technology. The show
featured work by Haacke and Joseph Kosuth, who would both be
regarded as leading conceptual artists, as well as by Ted Nelson and
Nicholas Negroponte, who are now thought of as pioneers of multi-
media computing. Negroponte's contribution,
Seek
(illus.
1970
), was
a paradigmatic cybernetic artwork in which gerbils were placed in
a box filled with metal cubes. A robotic arm attempted to rearrange
the cubes as quickly as the gerbils disrupted the arrangement.
35
35 Nicholas Negroponte/Architecture Machine Group,
Seek
, 1970, mixed-media
environment.
