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Activity Maps: How Roy Ascott’s Groundcourse Revolutionised Art Education

Roy Ascott’s Groundcourse rewired the brains of a generation of art students and turned Brian Eno and Pete Townshend on to cybernetic thinking. In an exclusive extract from his new book *Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity From Punk to New Wave*, Simon Strange explores the ideas behind the course and the strange activities it inspired
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Feedback Loops: How The Who Turned Pop Into Self-Destructive Art

In an exclusive extract from his new book, *A Band with Built-In Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk*, Peter Stanfield explores the web of connections between Pete Townshend and the cybernetic art of Gustav Metzger and Roy Ascott
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America Eats Its Young: On George Clinton’s Grand Statement

In an edited extract from his new book, George Clinton & The Cosmic Odyssey Of The P-Funk Empire, Kris Needs examines the circumstances - social, political, cultural and personal - that lead to Funadelic's under-appreciated Grand Statement America Eats its Young

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