The author, Francis Halsall, cites artist and art critic Jack Burnham as predicting that "a Systems Esthetic" would eventually lead to a shift away from art objects to a celebration of systems as a medium in and of itself. As I look at contemporary art today, the acceptance and proliferation of digital/new media is quite obvious. Thankfully, object art is still important to the art word, but it is clear that system as a medium has indeed become quite a trend.
Here are a few artists and exhibits that were quoted as being historically significant to cybernetics and systems art:
Primary Structures, 1966 at The Jewish Museum, NYC
This exhibit included key artists such as Carl Andre, Walter de Maria, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson and Sol Lewitt. It documented "the crystallisation of minimalism in the investigation of simplified sculptural form [...and] the systematic structures that underlay such minimal forms" (Halsall, 2008).
When Attitudes Become Form: Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information, Kunsthalle Bern/ Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1969 "explored sculptural possibilities of post-minimalism, while its subtitle invoked systems-thinking" (Halsall, 2008).
Systems, at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1972.
"The exhibition focused upon how both system and structure (mostly mathematically understood) could be used as a foundation for abstract art" (Halsall, 2008).
Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts, I.C.A., London, 1968
The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1968
Information at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 1970
Software, The Jewish Museum, 1970
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