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Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol. several kinetic and "happenings" artists, avant- garde film-makers and dramatists, the Velvet Underground, and composer John Cage. This immersion in New York's arts scene also led to deep interest in science and technology Many of the pieces at the festival were informed by
, who performed in conjunction with talks by Marshall McLuhan, introduced Brockman to several scientists and eventually arranged for him to meet McLuhan and his colleagues. In cyberspace. Brockman is best known for Edge.org. a site he founded as a continuation of what he describes as "a failed art
Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, several kinetic and "happenings" artists, avant- garde film-makers and dramatists, the Velvet Underground, and composer John Cage. This immersion in New York's arts scene also led todeep interest in science and technology. Many of the pieces at the festival were informed by
G, who performed in conjunction with talksby Marshall McLuhan, introduced Brockman to several scientists and eventually arranged for him to meet McLuhan and his colleagues. In cyberspace, Brockman is best known for Edgeorg, a site he founded as a continuation of what he describes as "a failed art
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 people to join him for a series of dinners—an ongoing seminar about media, communications, art, music, a
Shannon, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom had currency in the New York art circles in which I was then moving. In particular, Cage had picked up on McLuhan’s idea that by inventing electronic technologies we had externalized our central nervous system—that is, our minds—and that we now had to presume tha
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 people to join him for a series of dinners—an ongoing seminar about media, communications, art, music, a
Shannon, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom had currency in the New York art circles in which I was then moving. In particular, Cage had picked up on McLuhan’s idea that by inventing electronic technologies we had externalized our central nervous system—that is, our minds—and that we now had to presume tha
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