 He built his artworks on cybernetic theories of feedback interactivity primarily based on the ideas of Norbert Wiener.Wiener's work suggested to Schöffer an artistic process in terms of the circular causality of feedback loops.Schöffer's kinetic art sculpture "CYSP 1" from 1956, that made use of electronic computations developed by the Philips Company, is considered the first cybernetic sculpture in art history.