Cybernetics Intuitions and Art Tapa dura - 1971

Evolving out of contacts and collaborations made during the preparations for the seminal 'Cybernetic Serendipity' exhibition at the ICA London in 1968, this collection of essays explores the role of the cybernetics and machine systems in our culture. Includes essays by Dennis Gabor, John Cohen, Stefan Themerson, John R. Pierce, Max Bense, Abraham A. Moles, Ali Irtem, Gordon Pask, Irving John Good, Iannis Xenakis, Michael Noll, Leslie Mezei, Margaret Masterman, Robin McKinnon Wood, and Donald Michie. 207 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music ; 26 cm. First UK edition, first printing. Blue cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, small chip to foot of spine at the back, spine very slightly faded, no inscriptions, small address label of Duncan N.P. Foster, St John's College Oxford, on front free endpaper. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.