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...

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Main Author: Etienne Benson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries 2014-09-01
Series:communication +1
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Online Access:http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol3/iss1/2