Edward_Ihnatowicz
Edward Ihnatowicz (born 14 February 1926, Chełm – died 1988, London) was a Polish cybernetic art sculptor active in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[1][2] His sculptures explored the interaction between his robotic works and the audience.[3][4][5]
He was a pioneer of the use of computers in art and especially robots as art. As Eduardo Kac states:[6]
...three artworks created in the mid and late sixties stand as landmarks in the development of robotic art: Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe's Robot K-456 (1964), Tom Shannon's Squat (1966), and Edward Ihnatowicz's The Senster (1969-1970). While these works are very significant in their own right, they acquire a particular meaning when re-considered today, since seen together they also configure a triangle of new aesthetic issues that has continually informed the main directions in robotic art.
He was an active member of the Computer Arts Society.