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Aesthetica / Introduction to Information-Theoretic Aesthetics

Aesthetica / Einführung in die informationstheoretische Ästhetik

Max Bense

Historical context & research account

Bense publishes four volumes of Aesthetica in 1954–1960, followed by an expanded collected edition in 1965 and an introduction to information-theoretic aesthetics in 1969. These works connect aesthetics, information theory, statistical structure and programmed production. The genealogy marks a turn toward computational descriptions of form, order, complexity and aesthetic difference; it does not assert that art is simply information.

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Date displayed for this node:1954–1969 · Date recorded in the research master:1954–1969

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Aesthetica / Einführung in die informationstheoretische Ästhetik

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AI Art Genealogy Research Master · p. 5 · 006
Date as recorded: 1954–1969
Aesthetica / Introduction to Information-Theoretic Aesthetics ↗
Aesthetica / Einführung in die informationstheoretische Ästhetik

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