Chapter 10

1964
Roy Ascott

• "remade art (and art education) in view of Wiener's cybernetics"
• Ascott saw a connection between cybernetics/science and art (arguably the first to discuss new media art)
  
• used art "as an investigation of behavior, of creating situations for exploring behavior"
• created an entire system of art education that would include art, design, and science, and also require its students to find their own personal artistic identity
• Art should ask questions and find new answers
• Artists should be encouraged to use science as a tool and a reference and to integrate the two fields

Ascott definitely has an interesting idea for an art education curriculum. I really like the idea of students taking on personalities opposite from their "normal" selves and have random handicaps so that they must become interdependent and broaden their own experiences of personal behavior. That seems like a fascinating social experiement to me and I would be curious to see if it could really be implemented and whether the results will be as Ascott claims, that the students will then be able to create their own "special creative identity."