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​Exhibition: "A Study in Psycho-Cybernetics", Marvilla Art District, Lisbon 2023
Photos: Alexander Ramos 2023

A study in Psycho-cybernetics
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​Cybernetics was defined in 1948 by Norbert Wiener as “the science of control and communication, in the animal and the machine” -  basically, the theory of messages. Cybernetics is a way of thinking about systems that can act toward reaching a goal, and can be applied across many aspects of human existence including psychological habits and human awareness. Taking its name from a series of principles defined by Maxwell Maltz in his book Psycho-cybernetics (1960), I embody his research that “It requires a minimum of about 21 days for an old mental image to dissolve and a new one to gel”. 

Twenty-one artworks are produced in twenty-one days. Exploring the work of art as a complex dynamic system, the art process as an internal series of feedback loops can be externally observed through the repetition of gestures and imagery. Constraints, used a little like the programming of a machine that is given the power to learn, assist the direction of the work. The film poster, as a representation of illusion and fantasy, becomes a space of destabilisation, cyber-myth, and ultimately of reinvention. Absent bodies in an almost-human scale invite the viewer in to reconcile their own interpretation of the symbols and semiotics of contemporary image culture.

​In order to be “truly cybernetic” the artist must enter into a relationship with his audience which establishes a negative feedback loop to regulate behaviour towards a desired goal. We could question then, how does this relationship manifest? What defines a ‘successful’ exhibition, and who defines this? When is a work of art ever finished?

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​»   06_what matters is in the connections (2022) 
analogue collage (film posters) ​69cm x 101cm
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​»   11_the question of souls (2022) 
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»  08_Data sets are selective stories (2022) 
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analogue collage (film posters) 69cm x 101cm
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​»  05_empty spaces arranged as a pattern (2022) 
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»   03_the other side / greener grass (2022) 
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​»   07_parallel systems (2022) 
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  • Work
    • 2025 >
      • Perception / finding ground
    • 2024 >
      • Deliquesce
      • Vegetal matters
    • 2023 >
      • mycelium
      • a study in psycho-cybernetics
      • CALENDÁRIO AVULSO
      • Winter leaves
      • Unconnected Yet
    • 2022 >
      • The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity
      • Unconscionable map
      • uma nova poesia visual
      • AMETHYST DECEIVER
      • Moths drink the tears of sleeping birds
    • 2021 >
      • Home
      • tales of turbulence and tulips
      • Circle series
    • 2020 >
      • (E)arthly Delights
      • The Garden
      • Found Landscapes
    • 2019 >
      • Taxis Derma
      • Menagerie
      • QUAL Paisagem
      • Winter Sunrise
      • Sublime
      • The Centre Cannot Hold II
      • The Centre Cannot Hold
    • 2018 >
      • Caught up in the field
      • Disconnected Event
      • FLYGA FLADDRA
      • Consequential
    • 2017 >
      • Shop Magazine
      • [framing illusive]
      • ROCKS
      • Bag Forest
    • > 2016 >
      • what might have been simply displaced
      • CHAOS &INFUSION
      • (un)form
      • Fragments
    • Drawing >
      • for the time being
      • Still, time
      • BODY & PLACE
      • Expanded Landscape
      • Islands
      • Abstract Markings
    • Print >
      • Menagerie
  • Info
    • Bio
    • CV
    • Texts >
      • Undomesticated Ground (text)
      • A Study in Psycho-cybernetics?
      • Home (text)
      • Learning from the bricoleur in times of crisis
      • Taxis Derma (text)
      • Sublime (text)
  • News
  • Artist Mentoring
  • Contact