Edward Ihnatowicz

Who is Edward Ihnatowicz?

Edward Ihnatowicz was a cybernetic art sculptor active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His sculptures explored the interaction between his robotic works and the audience.

He was a pioneer of the use of computers in art and especially robots as art. As Eduardo Kac states:

...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, Tom Shannon's Squat, and Edward Ihnatowicz's The Senster. 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.