ART IN THE AGE OF CYBERNETIC MACHINES

This bookresearches thehistorical relationship ofcyberneticsand art,anaffiliationof technologyand culturethatemerged after thesecond world war. In the second phase of modernity, cybernetics became the mainmodelandmethod for designand envisionthesocietiesof thefuture. From the modern utopias of film, art and television imagery to those of cyberspace, various kinds of media territories populate contemporary media culture. Unlike televisionand other traditional formsof mediation, digital images have established a spectrum of different forms of entertainment and interaction.