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Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Author
Norbert Wiener
Year
1948
Source
https://monoskop.org/File:Wiener_Norbert_Cybernetics_or_the_Control_and_Communication_in_the_Animal_and_the_Machine_2nd_ed.pdf
Tags
computer art history · foundations of generative art
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Foundations of generative/algorithmic art — the founding text of cybernetics, the discipline of control and feedback that gave 'cybernetic art' its name and framed the machine as an aesthetic collaborator. Public domain in the US (confirmed full-view on HathiTrust, Record/000468482). Full-text PDF (complete 2nd edition, 1961, incl. the two chapters Wiener added to the 1948 original) via Monoskop.