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Journal Article
The Public Sensoriums of Pulsa: Cybernetic Abstraction and the Biopolitics of Urban Survival
2008
Overview
Discusses the work of American interdisciplinary collective Pulsa, founded in 1967, focusing on their computer-based sound and light interventions in the urban and natural environment. With reference to the writings of Jack Burnham, analyses how Pulsa sought to expose and aestheticise the technological systems underpinning life in the city, devoting special attention to urban lighting systems. Suggests that their goals were to heighten awareness of impending ecological crisis and to create possibilities for interaction between people, their environment and the art work itself. Discusses installations created for the Yale Golf Course (1969; illus.) and the sculpture garden at New York's Museum of Modern Art (1970; col. illus.), and details 'Harmony Ranch', an experiment in communal living and art-making set up by the group. Assesses critical responses to the artistic exploration of technology by Rosalind Krauss and Jean Baudrillard, and concludes by considering how the work of Pulsa prefigured and influenced later contemporary art practice, with reference to the light installations of Olafur Eliasson.
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Taylor & Francis,College Art Association
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