Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 4: Digital Era (1960s)

1968

Sound Activated Mobile by Edward Ihnatowicz

Artwork

Installation view of Cybernetic Serendipity at the ICA, London, 1968, with Edward Ihnatowicz's Sound Activated Mobile on its white plinth in the foreground, its flower-like reflectors turned toward the crowd.
Installation view of Cybernetic Serendipity at the ICA, London, 1968, with Edward Ihnatowicz's Sound Activated Mobile on its white plinth in the foreground, its flower-like reflectors turned toward the crowd. Cybernetic Serendipity, 1968, exhibition view. Courtesy Internationales Performance Festival, Vienna. Media Art Net (medienkunstnetz.de).

Sound Activated Mobile (SAM) was a pioneering cybernetic sculpture that responded to its surrounding audio environment. The pioneering work of kinetic sculpture was exhibited at Cybernetic Serendipity and serves as an important step in the development of electronic art.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

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Edward Ihnatowicz

Movements

kinetic art

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Ideas
Cybernetic Art, Interactive Art, interactivity
Technologies
cybernetics, kinetic art, kinetic sculpture
People
Edward Ihnatowicz
Works
Electronic Art, Sound Activated Mobile
Exhibitions
Cybernetic Serendipity

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