Epstein Secrets

dicine at USC, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. Caroline A. Jones is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the P

ing a place to begin. New Technologies=New Perceptions Before AI, there was Cybernetics—the idea of automatic, self-regulating control, laid out in Norbert Wiener’s foundational text of 1948. I can date my own serious exposure to it to 1966, when the composer John Cage invited me and four or five other young arts

itique it.” 173 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016976 THE ARTISTIC USE OF CYBERNETIC BEINGS Caroline A. Jones Caroline A. Jones is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the P

agic or mysticism of an earlier age— as by their modern-sounding insights. I detect that same doubleness—the zig-zag origami folds of old and new—in Norbert Wiener’s classic The Human Use of Human Beings. First published in 1950 and revised in 1954, the book is in many ways extraordinarily prescient. Wiener, the M

dicine at USC, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. Caroline A. Jones is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the P

ing a place to begin. New Technologies=New Perceptions Before AI, there was Cybernetics—the idea of automatic, self-regulating control, laid out in Norbert Wiener’s foundational text of 1948. I can date my own serious exposure to it to 1966, when the composer John Cage invited me and four or five other young arts

itique it.” 173 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016393 THE ARTISTIC USE OF CYBERNETIC BEINGS Caroline A. Jones Caroline A. Jones is a professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at MIT and author of Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses; Machine in the Studio: Constructing the P

agic or mysticism of an earlier age— as by their modern-sounding insights. I detect that same doubleness—the zig-zag origami folds of old and new—in Norbert Wiener’s classic The Human Use of Human Beings. First published in 1950 and revised in 1954, the book is in many ways extraordinarily prescient. Wiener, the M