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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Type: Academic text / art history book excerpt (evidence file)
File Size: 2.48 MB
Summary

This document appears to be a page (177) from an academic book or article discussing art history, specifically focusing on cybernetic art, kinetic sculptures, and the shift from 1960s male-dominated cybernetics to 1990s feminist techno-critique. It mentions various artists including Lynn Hershman Leeson and Judith Barry. While the content is purely academic, the page bears the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016980', indicating it was included as part of a document production for a House Oversight Committee investigation.

People (9)

Name Role Context
Tsai Artist
Created entities classed as 'vegetal' or 'aquatic'; associated with innocent creatures.
Nicolas Schöffer Artist
Associated with 'cybernetic architectures'.
Hans Haacke Artist
Moved toward manipulation of data with 'Real-Time Systems' works by 1972.
Donna Haraway Theorist/Author
Author of 'A Cyborg Manifesto' (1984).
Paik Artist
Associated with 'creaky gender theater'.
Pask Cybernetician/Artist
Associated with 'creaky gender theater'.
Ihnatowicz Artist
Associated with 'innocent creatures'.
Lynn Hershman Leeson Artist
Creator of 'Dollie Clone Series', 'CybeRoberta', and 'Tillie, the Telerobotic Doll'.
Judith Barry Artist
Creator of 'Imagination, Dead Imagine' (1991).

Organizations (5)

Name Type Context
Howard Wise
Art gallery/stable.
GRAV
Collective in Paris (Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel).
Zero Gruppe
German art collective.
Radical Software
1970 journal.
House Oversight Committee
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016980'.

Timeline (4 events)

1972
Hans Haacke moves toward data manipulation with 'Real-Time Systems' works.
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1984
Publication of Donna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto'.
Unknown
1991
Creation of Imagination, Dead Imagine.
Unknown
1995-1998
Creation of Dollie Clone Series.
Unknown

Locations (1)

Location Context
Location of the collective GRAV.

Relationships (1)

Lynn Hershman Leeson Inspiration Donna Haraway
Women artists inspired by... Donna Haraway’s inspiring 1984 polemic

Key Quotes (4)

"Humans felt they were encountering behaviors indicative of responsive life"
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"Knowing machines were dumb and incapable of emotion, these creators were confident in staging frank simulations."
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"Crucial to the expansion of this uncritical, largely masculine set of cybernetic environments would be a radical, critical cohort of astonishing women artists emerging in the 1990s"
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"Hershman Leeson produced 'dolls' as clones, offering a critical framing of the way contemporary individuation had become part of an ideological, replicative, plastic realm."
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