Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas

Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1971. First edition. 207 pages illustrations 26 cm About very good(+) with slight foxing and soiling, in a similar about very good price-clipped jacket, with two small closed tears, and now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780821204313, 0821204319

Contents: The word machine / Jonathan Swift; Cybernetics, art and ideas / Jasia Reichardt; Technological civilization and man's future / Dennis Gabor; Creativity, technology and the arts / John Cohen; Nonobody's mathematical bio-pianolas / Stefan Themerson; A chance for art / J. R. Pierce; The projects of generative aesthetics / Max Bense; Art and cybernetics in the supermarket / Abraham A. Moles; Happiness, amplified cybernetically / Ali Irtem; A comment, a case history and a plan / Gordon Pask; Science in the flesh / Irving John Good; Towards a metamusic / Iannis Xenakis; Free stochastic music from the computer / Iannis Xenakis; The digital computer as a creative medium / A. Michael Noll; Randomness in computer graphics / Leslie Mezei; Computerized haiku / Margaret Masterman; Computer programming for literary laymen / Robin McKinnon Wood; Computer-servant or master / Donald Michie; Biographies ¶ Arts Data processing, Arts Informatique, Computers and civilization, Ordinateurs et civilisation, Computers and machines in art. Art and technology. Industrial art