The mid-20th century is chosen here as the historical anchor for the conceptual origins of Ruyter's work not so much to mark the coming into formation of a corresponding historical period, but because a group of events from this period, relating to the histories of science, art and, more importantly,
cybernetic theory, provide Ruyter's paintings with their contextual depth:
Although «virtual reality» might conjure associations with early
cybernetic theory and computer animation, today «virtuality» permeates both physical space and online experience.
Not exact matches
14 This evolutionary, organic enhancement
theory of technology is all the more cogent in a day when electronic and
cybernetic machines are coming into prominence.
We have in recent years witnessed a number of new theoretical schemes — or attempts to revive old schemes in which collective, behavioral, observable variables predominate: ecological
theories, economistic models, market metaphors, notions of moral order and moral economy, and
cybernetic and behaviorist approaches, to name a few.
In Beyond Modern Sculpture from 1968 Burnham builds
cybernetic art into an extensive
theory that centers on art's drive to imitate and ultimately reproduce life.
He applied systems
theory to the problem and drew a
cybernetic system diagram for the world....