Nicolas schöffer wikipedia
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Nicolas Schöffer
Nicolas Schöffer (September 6, — January 8, ) was a Hungarian-born French artist. He can be considered as the father of cybernetic art.
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[edit]- A homeostat constantly seeks to establish a balance which is perpetually disrupted, and performs a statistical exploration of all the possible combinations of inputs.
- The actual research on the apparatus is guided by a triple determinism which integrates:
- . one element of uncertainty created by an "indifferent cell," which systematically makes use of chance;
- . one element of "sensorial reactions" which integrates the effects of the sound atmosphere, of the light atmosphere and of the heat atmosphere;
- . an "internal determinism" created by the feedbacks of the various active chains among one another, in order to liberate the machine progressively. Its degree of liberty can easily be modified.
- The objective sought is above all of an experimental order. As for electronic animals, the synthesis of the
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Nicolas Schöffer
French sculptor and plastician
Nicolas Schöffer
Nicolas Schöffer Collection Kalocsa
Born 6 September Kalocsa, Hungary
Died 8t January Montmartre, Paris
Education Royal Hungarian Pázmány Péter University (Budapest), Faculty of Law Academy of Fine Arts (Budapest)
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris)Knownfor first cybernetic artwork, painting, graphic, sculpture, architecture, urbanism, video, theatre experiment Notable work CYS1 cybernetic sculpture SCAM1 automobile sculpture
Plan of a Cybernetic Light Tower for Paris
Plan of a cybernetic city
KYLDEX1 cybernetic theatre experimentStyle 1. Period: surrealism, impressionism, expressionism 2. Period: kinetic art, cybernetic art, neoplasticism
3. Period: computer graphicsSpouse Marie Rose Marguerite Orlhac Eléonore de Lavandeyra Schöffer Awards Grand prize for sculpture of the Venice Biennale () Officer in the Légion d'Honneur ()
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Nicolas Schffer (Hungarian: Schffer Miklos; September 6, - January 8, ) was a Hungarian-born French artist. He can be considered as the father of cybernetic art. He was born in Kalocsa, Austria-Hungary and resided in Paris from till his death in his Montmartre atelier in His career touched on painting, kinetic sculpture, architecture, urbanism, rulle, TV, and music. Indeed he collaborated on music with Pierre Henry. All of the artistic actions of Schffer were done in the pursuit of a dynamism in art.
This interest in artistic dynamism was originally initiated by the Cubo-Futurists and then intensified and solidified by the Russian Constructivism artists, such as Naum Gabo, Anton Pevsner, Moholy-Nagy and Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack. All these artists were concerned with opening up the static three-dimensional sculptural form eller gestalt to a fourth dimension of time and motion. And this was the intention of Schffer as well.
Schffer however,