Max Bense

Bense coined this term aesthetic event to avoid the art issue. We don't make art. We don't want to talk about art. We produce singular aesthetic events.

Hans Dehlinger, The 1970s Artist-Programmer: Truckenbrod, Dehlinger

Max Bense in the '50s and '60s would kind of develop this theory of cybernetics and information theory, and he was really interested in how these generative systems, how they are, also how you could quantify aesthetics.

Peter Bauman, Kate Vass on the Modern Era, 1850–1940s