Gordon Pask (1928-1996) was one of the most important figures in British and international cybernetics, and an influential promoter of second-order cybernetics. Starting in the 1950s with the experimentation with adaptive machines and computers, Pask developed towards the 1960s and 1970s…
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Jill, Sally, Ruth, and Mick are now officially announcing that
The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive is available.
They would be delighted if you would take the time to have a look at the digital archive web site, and where appropriate, help to spread a…
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Added by Kuja on December 9, 2008 at 11:30am —
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Nice and consistent
event occurred in Netherlands last month.
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Added by Kuja on December 3, 2008 at 5:00pm —
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María Fernández wrote an
essay on Gordon Pask: Cybernetic Polymath. That's one of the many texts you can read on new media art magazine a minima. [via
WMMNA]
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Added by Kuja on November 20, 2008 at 10:30am —
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The Computer Arts Society is pleased to announce the last talk of our 40th anniversary year: Ranulph Glanville - No Longer a Shrinking Violet? :: December 2, 2008; 7:00 pm :: Institute of Archeology - Room 410, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London.
The significance of cybe…
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Added by Kuja on November 16, 2008 at 4:05pm —
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Too much work around here... Back in no time.
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Added by Kuja on November 4, 2008 at 4:03pm —
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Following a review of the ICA's programming activities I have taken the decision to close the Live & Media Arts department from the end of November 2008.
The ICA has led a pioneering role in new media arts practice over the last decade and more.
We are proud of that legacy. However times change. And I no longer feel that the artistic rationale for devoting considerable institutional attention to that art form - to the extent of maintaining a dedicated department to its pursuance - can be s…
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Added by Kuja on October 17, 2008 at 6:30pm —
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Hi everybody,
Directly from Newcastle, New South Wales, Ranulph Glanville has sent a pre publication draft of a paper that appears in the Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems, published by UNESCO on the web.
Enjoy!
Kuja…
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Added by Kuja on September 22, 2008 at 11:30am —
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Kevin Hamilton, from University of Illinois, sent an interesting post to NEW MEDIA CURATING. Full text bellow:
The flipside of the happy accident is the situation without an apparent history or origin. As the Talking Heads song asks, "Well, how did I get here?"
I've been very interested in Brian Holmes' read of cybernetics as present and influential in the contemporary surveillance state, a…
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Added by Kuja on September 4, 2008 at 5:30pm —
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Yasmin discussion is going full steam down the way. Parallel to this, cameos as me would like to risk inferring ideas: why not put in the agenda a discussion about SECOND ORDER CYBERNETICS ART? Meanwhile, my radar is capturing interesting considerations inside sidekick forums, as NEW-MEDIA-CURATING list. First of all, folks have noticed the absence of female characters in CS and CSR. Paul Brown, representing the mac…
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Added by Kuja on September 2, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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I'd like to thanks Annick Bureaud for her announcing about CAD-Ning and Malina's Facebook on CSR in
Olatsnews. Speaking of, I put here a
link to the Facebook page, in spite of the curious sub-title: cybernetic art around the mediterranean.
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Added by Kuja on September 1, 2008 at 5:30pm —
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September the first is around the corner, and the warm-up for the highly expected Yasmin discussions about CS has already began. Paul Pangaro has called my attention to the following piece of e-mail sent by
Jean-Noël Montagné.
Hello all
I have seen on Bricolabs list that a discussion about the origins and new activities of cybernetics and art will stand in Yasmin n…
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Added by Kuja on August 29, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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In the late 1960s, the LACMA's ambitious
Art and Technology project sought to bring together contemporary artists with the biggest high-tech corporations of the day. The folks from LACMA have put the…
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Added by Kuja on August 20, 2008 at 11:30am —
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In a serendipity way, I’ve came across a
copy of “Steps to an Ecology of Mind”, book written by Gregory Bateson in1972. When some good soul will do the same with “Calculator Saturnalia”? (I’m kidding, Ranulph!)
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Added by Kuja on August 13, 2008 at 5:00pm —
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Maybe many of you know this
press release, republished by ZKM, but I'll put here anyway (there are some nice photos along). One more thing: Catherine Mason gently has published here a…
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Added by Kuja on August 11, 2008 at 2:00pm —
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Take a look at this amazing set of
Pask Present's videos!
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Added by Kuja on August 5, 2008 at 6:00pm —
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40 years ago, Jasia Reichart's exhibition "Cybernetic Serendipity" showed that the interactive confluence of cybernetics, computing and art had arrived.
(60 years ago, Norbert Wiener published his book “Cybernetics”. 50 years ago the worlds first electronic performance installation—the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World Fair—was launched.)
40 years later, while computers and art remai…
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Added by Kuja on August 5, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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A note from Ranulph Glanville: September will see an online discussion that sets out to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Jasia Reichart's exhibition, "Cybernetic Serendipity", bringing together art and cybernetics, which will consider what such an exhibition might be nowadays, when art, exhibiting and cybernetics have changed so much.
The debate is open to all interested, and will begin 1 September. There are a number of committed discussants, but anyone else is welcome to join in. Please go to…
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Added by Kuja on August 4, 2008 at 9:00am —
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Hi, I'd like to invite everybody to take part on the
new discussion I've ignited: “The Biggest Attack on Cybernetics, Ever”. Sahlins' text is very provocative, but has its flaws. Someone would like to give your two cents?
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Added by Kuja on July 31, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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Nick Green, in Cybcom discussion group, has congratulated Ranulph Granville and Albert Muller for the
incredible exhibition they set up. I do likewise. I'd like to ask if somebody knows if there is an English version of Margit Rosen paper (The control of control - Gordon Pasks kybernetische Ästhetik), which was published in the catalog of the same show.
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Added by Kuja on July 29, 2008 at 10:30am —
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