Abraham Moles
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Abraham Moles (1920-1992) was an engineer of electrical engineering and acoustics, and a doctor of physics and philosophy. He was one of the first researchers to establish and analyze links between aesthetics and information theory.
He taught sociology and psychology at the Universities of Ulm, Strasbourg, San Diego, Mexico, Compiègne, and founded the Institute of Social Psychology of Communication in Strasbourg.
Placed his theoretical project for 'an ecology of communication' under the banner of both Shannon's mathematical theory and the analyses of Norbert Wiener.
Selected writings
- Musiques expérimentales, Zurich, Cercle d'art, 1961
- Manifesto of permutational art, published by Max Bense, Stuttgart, 1962
- Art et ordinateur, Paris, Casterman, 1971
