Information Technology Reference
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Information Theory were among the ideas the Independent Group
imported from across the Atlantic, along with American sociology
and Non-Aristotelian logic,
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which enabled them to develop a new
critical approach to culture. Throughout the Group's history such
ideas were discussed both informally and formally in the context of
public seminars at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London,
with which they had formed a close relationship.
A little later, in the early '
)
wholeheartedly embraced the possibilities of Cybernetics, which he
encountered through the work of Norbert Wiener and others, and
which he pursued through paintings, such as his
Change Paintings
of
60
s, the artist Roy Ascott (illus.
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1967
and many other manifestations, all emphasizing the importance of
interaction and participation between artist, artwork and audience,
1960
; manifestoes, such as
Behaviourables and Futuribles
of
24 Roy Ascott's diagram of the cybernetic processes of culture, from the catalogue
for his show
Diagram Boxes & Analogue Structures
at the Molton Gallery, London,
in 1963.
