“Model of an Existing Artist-Audience Relationship”
by Stephen Willats, 1973 

:: A cybernetic framework of how art mediates between the intentionality of the artist and the interpretation by the audience. 

Willats’ diagram dissects the quiet circuitry between artist, artwork, and audience—exposing creation and reception as mirrored feedback loops, not acts of transmission. Here, meaning isn’t delivered; it’s assembled, filtered through prior beliefs and reloaded into future perception. Art becomes a shared algorithm—shaped in the making, rewritten in the viewing.

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