Systems art shares it roots with post-structuralism; the critical disc — Systems art

"Systems art : Loosely describes a group of radical artists working in the late 1960s early 1970s who reacted against art’s traditional focus on the object with the aim of making their art more responsive to the world around them."

"The neoconceptual formalism which, by way of systems art, has become the norm of as cultural practice is indicative of another condition specific to data visualization, which is that the proximity of the work to its critics has become unbridgeable, just as their distance was unbridgeable in modernism, even for artist-critics like Pound and Olson faced with the pag between poetry and criticism."

"A Systems Esthetic will become the dominant approach to a maze of socio-technical conditions rooted only in the present."

"Systems Art is systems thinking in art practices – an explicated dialogic approach to cultural systems that engages with the forms of popular culture."

"At a gut level Haacke is asking this question: is there really any difference between the power of money to control the direction of art and the power of money to keep rotten slums in existence? Haacke, being an artist, has not consciously set out to organize the relationships I have indicated. But it is obvious that his "Systems Art" has entered a new phase. In its semiotic structure it draws closer to the ritual drama (where the artists premises are recapitulated in everyday life) and away from the plastic arts..."

"Tom Phillips, a creature of habit working naturally within systems art, has used routine — the walk to his studio, for instance - to investigate the invisible usual, while also, in the wondrous Twenty Sites, n Years, an artwork consisting of an annual return to and photographing of sites marked on a circle centred on his studio, establishing a routine that will survive him."