Abraham A. Moles

Abraham A. Moles (Doctor of Science and Philosophy) was Professor of Socio-aesthetics at the University of Strasbourg, where he directed the Institute of Socio-psychology, and taught at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm. A pioneer of applying information theory to the perception of art and music, his books include Information Theory and Esthetic Perception, Sociodynamics of Culture, and Art and Computer. His essay 'Art and Cybernetics in the Supermarket' appears in Jasia Reichardt's Cybernetics, Art and Ideas (1971).