Dr Tim Stott, Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Dublin School of Creative Arts, publishes the article ‘When Attitudes Became Toys: Jasia Reichardt’s Play Orbit’ in the April 2018 issue of Art History.

This article studies Play Orbit, an exhibition of ‘toys, games and playables’ curated by Jasia Reichardt and Peter Jones, shown at the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales and then at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, between August 1969 and February 1970. The article’s core claim is that Play Orbit, which Reichardt described as ‘the most democratic exhibition ever held in this country’, also continues her interest in the encounter of art and cybernetics and so marks a significant but still largely neglected moment in the history of systems art in the late nineteen-sixties.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8365.12329