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Information Aesthetics
Ihe
first 130 pages containing journal "bit international" Max Bense, a
close friend of concrete art artist Max Bill and Abraham Moles
presented their work on the "information aesthetics".
Bense
and Moles tried -
in different ways -
to offer a method to
determine the value of art on a mathematical, scientific, and empirical
bases. Referring to the theories of David Birkhoff
about mathematical
aesthetics and Claude Shannons
Information theory, art was
considered to get it purely aesthetical value from the relation between
order and complexity respectively information and redundancy.
Combined with Norbert Wieners Cybernetic Theory the process of art
criticism should not further relay on subjective opinions, but follow
rational scientific criteria. This theoretical framework (Bense
started his
Aesthetica
in 1954) challenged the 'Stuttgart School of computer art' not
only to consider information aesthetics as an art critics tool, but as a
method to generate art with help by a computer.