Art, Cybernetics and Pedagogy in Post-War Britain

Roy Ascott’s Groundcourse

Kate Sloan

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Routledge
01 October 2022

Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

This is the first full-length study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date. The book focuses on his early career, exploring the evolution of his early interests in communication in the context of the rich overlaps between art, science and engineering in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. The first part of the book looks at Ascott’s training and early work. The second park looks solely at Groundcourse, Ascott’s extraordinary pedagogical model for visual arts and cybernetics which used an integrative and systems-based model, drawing in behaviourism, analogue machines, performance and games. Using hitherto unpublished photographs and documents, this book will establish a more prominent place for cybernetics in post-war British art.

By: Kate Sloan
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781032338606
ISBN 10: 1032338601
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 01 October 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kate Sloan teaches for Newcastle Univerity and the University of Edinburgh, where she was previously Henry Moore Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow 2015-17.

Reviews for Art, Cybernetics and Pedagogy in Post-War Britain: Roy Ascott’s Groundcourse

"""There is a great deal of original research here and it is a worthy contribution. One can only hope that it opens up the field of art pedagogy even further."" - Beth Williamson, Art History"