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born 1931

Jack Wesley Burnham Jr. (born 1931) is an American writer on art and technology, who taught art history at Northwestern University and the University of Maryland. He is one of the main forces behind the emergence of systems art in the 1960s.

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A Systems Esthetic will become the dominant approach to a maze of socio-technical conditions rooted only in the present.

Unless the world is substantially altered for the worst, the logical outcome of technology's influence on art before the end of this century should be a series of art forms that manifest true intelligence, but perhaps more meaningfully, with a capacity for reciprocal relationships with human beings.

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