Books, Essays, Reviews

Ault, Julie. Alternative Art, New York: 1965-1985. New York: Drawing Center and Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2002.

Bell, Judith. “Water Works.” Omni 10, no. 9 (June 1988): 24.

Benthall, Jonathan. 2017. “Cybernetic Sculpture of Tsai” and “Trembling into Thought: An Afterword.” in L.-Y. Tsai (ed.), Tsai 蔡文颖. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press.

Benthall, Jonathan. “Technological Art and Studio International’s Eclectic Vanguardism.” Interdisciplinary Science Review 42, no. 1-2 (2017): 79-92. 

Bryan-Wilson, Julia. Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2011.

Faber, Tom. “Electric Dreams at Tate Modern – When Artists Embraced the Power of Technology.” The Financial Times November 24, 2024.

Fan, Dian and Zhang Ga. Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2008.

Flack, Carla, Louise Lawson, Jack McConchie, Ming-Yi Tsai. Cybernetic Umbrella: A Case Study in Collaboration. Getty Conservation Institute (2018).

Fodor, Joe. “Wired for Sound.” Omni 10, no. 12 (September 1988): 50.

Kepes, Gyorgy, and Jonathan Benthall. Cybernetic Art: The World of Tsai Wen-Ying. Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun. 1980.

Kluszczyński, Ryszard Waldemar, Jolanta Woszczenko, Patrycja Poniatowska, Adam Gajlewicz, and Thomas Anessi. Transgeneracyjna Sztuka Cybernetyczna (Tsaibernetics: Transgenerational Cybernetic Art). Gdańsk: Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaźnia. 2023.

Kostelanetz, Richard. Soho: The Rise and Fall of an Artists’ Colony. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Kostelanetz, Richard and Susie Ranney Lemmer. Artists’ Soho: 49 Episodes of Intimate History. New York: Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press. 2014.

Reichardt, Jasia, ed. Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts. New York: Praeger. 1968.

Schwendener, Martha. “Vilém Flusser’s Seventies: Phenomenology, Television, Cybernetics, and Video Art.” Afterimage 45, no. 5 (2018): 22-28. 

Sholette, Gregory. “Artistic Labor.” Artforum 46, no. 8 (April 2008).

Usselmann, Rainer. “The Dilemma of Media Art: Cybernetic Serendipity at the ICA London.” Leonardo 36, no. 5 (2003): 389=396.

Weibel, Peter, Christelle Havranek, and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, editors. Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art. Prague : Kunsthalle Praha Services, s.r.o., 2022.

Winter-Irving, Celia. “Cybernetic Sculpture.” Craft Arts 1 (December 1984): 48-50.

Wo, Leung Chi. “Where Two Cities Meet.” ArtAsiaPacific 139 (July/August 2024): 35. 

Woodford, John. “The Electrifying Artist: Engineering Grad Wen-ying Tsai.” Michigan Today 19 (1987).

Solo Exhibition Catalogues 

Tsai: Cybernetic Sculpture Environment. Cambridge: MIT Committee on the Visual Arts. 1971

Includes essay “Sybernetic Sculpture of Tsai: by Jonathan Benthall.

Tsai : Sculptures Cybernétiques Environment, juin 1972. Paris: Galerie Denise René. 1972.

Wen-YIng Tsai. Düsseldorf: Galerie Denise René, Hans Mayer. 1973.

Tsai: Escultura Cibernetica. Caracas: Museo de Arte Moderno de Caracas. 1975.

Cybernetic art of Tsai Wen-Ying. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art. 1979.

Cybernetic Art : The World of Tsai Wen-Ying. Tokyo: Isetan Museum of Art. 1980.

蔡文穎動感藝術 (Cybernetic Art of Tsai Wen-Ying). Taipei: National Museum of History. 1989.

蔡文穎動感藝術環境 (Cybernetic Sculptures: The World of Tsai Wen-Ying). New York: Center Arts and Science Foundation. 1997. Held at China National Museum of Fine Arts

Group Exhibition Catalogues

The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age. New York: Museum of Modern Art. 1968. Curated by Pontus Hultén.

The Computer in Art. London: Studio Vista. 1971. Curated by Jasia Reichardt. 

Struktur, Schwingung, Dynamik: Naturform-Kunstform. Nürnberg : Kunsthalle. 1973.

Neither East nor West: Seven Contemporary New York Artists (不是東西 : 紐約東西藝術家聯展). New York: Taipei Gallery. 1993.