Environment between System and Nature: Alan Sonfist and the Art of the Cybernetic Environment
This paper examines the role of systems thinking in environmental(ist) art and activism through a close reading and contextualization of Army Ants: Patterns and Structures (1972), an installation by Alan Sonfist, one of the leading figures in U.S. land art and environmental art of the 1960s and 1970...
Main Author: | Etienne Benson |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst
2014-09-01
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Series: | communication +1 |
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Online Access: | http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol3/iss1/2 |
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