Cybernetic Serendipidity: The Computer and the Arts (1968)
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Cybernetic Serendipity was an exhibition of cybernetic art curated by Jasia Reichardt and shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, from 2 August to 20 October 1968. Later it moved to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., running there from 16 July to 31 August 1969; and finally to the recently founded Exploratorium in San Francisco, where it ran from 1 November to 18 December 1969.
The show featured a comprehensive assortment of pioneer techno-artists including Edward Ihnatowicz, Liliane Lijn, Gustav Metzger, Nam June Paik, Nicolas Schöffer, and Jean Tinguely, and as represented by a number of their more noteworthy pieces including Paik’s Robot K-456 (1964), Schöffer’s CYSP-1 (1956); and Tinguely’s Méta-Matic (1961). It also included works by engineers, mathematicians, composers and poets. Reichardt also went on to serve as the editor of a book, Cybernetics, Art and Ideas (1971), extending this study of the relationship between cybernetics and arts.
Special Issue of Studio International
Edited by Jasia Reichardt
Publisher Studio International, London, 1968
1st edition July 1968
2nd edition (revised) September 1968
Book edition, Praeger, New York, 1969
Reprint of book edition, Studio International Foundation, London, 2018
101 pages
PDF (2nd ed., b&w, 8 MB, updated to OCR on 2015-12-17)
PDF (2018 repr. of 1969 ed., color, 253 MB, added on 2018-10-26, via)
Flipbook (2018 repr. of 1969 ed., added on 2018-10-26)
Gordon Pask: Heinz von Foerster’s Self Organization, the Progenitor of Conversation and Interaction Theories (1996)
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“Over more than three decades Heinz von Foerster and I have collaborated and worked together as well as in separate laboratories. This contribution gives a terse account of work which we have done together and which is relevant to Heinz’ prescient notion of self organization and its many arborizations. In the course of doing so it spells out some of the history associated with cybernetics to which both Heinz and I adhere.” (Abstract)
The last paper Gordon Pask wrote before his death in 1996.
Published in Systems Research 13(3), pp. 349-362, 1996
Keywords
concept, conversation (theory), interaction (of actors theory), observer, P-individual, self-organization, spin
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Comment (0)Cary Wolfe: Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside” (1998)
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“Unique in its collation of major theorists rarely considered together, Critical Environments incorporates detailed discussions of the work of Richard Rorty, Walter Benn Michaels, Stanley Cavell, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Niklas Luhmann, Donna Haraway, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Fredric Jameson, and others, and ranges across fields from feminist philosophy of science to the theory of ideology. Offering American readers a comprehensive introduction to systems theory and responding to the widespread charge of relativism leveled against it, Wolfe’s work will enhance and inspire new kinds of critical thought.”
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1998
ISBN 0816630194, 9780816630196
175 pages
Keywords and phrases
postmodern, systems theory, Gilles Deleuze, Marxist, Richard Rorty, second-order cybernetics, Niklas Luhmann, autopoiesis, posthumanist, epistemological, poststructuralism, Michel Foucault, Ernesto Laclau, Michael Hardt, Walter Benn Michaels, Stanley Cavell, Fredric Jameson, autopoietic, representationalism, Chantal Mouffe
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