"As far as the sensory experience of the spectator goes, the most outstanding American kinetic artist is unquestionably the Chinese-born Wen-Ying Tsai. His pieces, which are perfect on the technological level, serve the primary purpose of giving a complete visual experience to the spectator, whose sound solicitations provoke a choreographic, chromatic and rhythmic response in the ‘cybernetic sculptures’. [...]"
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Frank Popper
(17 April 1918 – 12 July 2020) was a French historian of art and technology and Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the Science of Art at the University of Paris VIII.
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