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  • Electric Dreams: Art and technology before the internet – Tate

    As the field gained international popularity in the 1960s, second-generation cyberneticists introduced principles of ‘observation’ and ‘influence’. This allowed them to link systems together into complex ecologies. Cybernetics became applied more widely to various social, environmental and philosophical contexts. It developed a cultural dimension among the 1960s hippie counterculture. They experimented with new technologies alongside their interest in alternative lifestyles and mind-altering experiences.

    Many artists and thinkers turned to cybernetics to make sense of a newly interconnected world, increasingly driven by technological development and interactions with machines. As a field concerned with constructing systems, cybernetics also holds the potential to dismantle existing structures and rebuild them anew. Artists responded to these ideas by creating systems-based works that performed creative acts with minimal human intervention, or which responded in real-time to the interactions of their viewers

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  • Lynn Hershman Leeson predicted our digital hellscape – Hyperallergic

    Another work, “CybeRoberta” (1996), comprised of a seemingly ordinary doll sitting inside a glass vitrine, allows viewers to access a designated website via a QR code displayed on the wall and then to change the position of “Roberta”’s digital eye to see real-time images of themselves in the gallery. Needless to say, finding myself so thoroughly surveilled by a seemingly benign toy was morbidly riveting, but also genuinely disconcerting.

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  • “Subway Therapy” displays New Yorkers’ post-election thoughts – Hyperallergic

    At the height of the project’s post-election popularity in 2016, disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo left a note of his own: “New York State holds the torch high! – Andrew C.” Strangers left messages including “Trump is inhumane,” “Love to my Muslim brothers and sisters,” angry sentiments toward the electoral college, and the popular slogan “Love Trumps Hate.” Eight years later, the rhetoric hanging from the neon Post-it squares is different. While there was barely any room for even one more sticky note at the Union Square station in 2016, this year’s confessionals are more sparsely populated, and their messages seem less reactive to a Trump win.

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  • Maurizio Cattelan banana artwork could fetch $1M at auction – Hyperallergic

    Hyperallergic asked Sotheby’s whether the $1 million estimate is a joke. David Galperin, Sotheby’s head of Contemporary Art, Americas, responded that “‘Comedian’ is among the artist’s most iconic works, and so its value should be aligned with the highest ends of his market.” He added that some of Cattelan’s works have sold for as much as $17 million at auction and that “the estimate is just a starting point.” […] A Sotheby’s representative told Hyperallergic that the buyer of “Comedian” will receive a certificate of authenticity along with official installation instructions, a roll of tape, and one banana. “The banana and duct tape can be replaced as needed,” the Sotheby’s representative told Hyperallergic.

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