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<b>Leonardo/OLATS, co-sponsor of YASMIN, is pleased to announce:<br>
<br>
</b><span class="messageTxt"><b>Cybernetics Serendipity Redux<br>
<br>
</b>A moderated discussion on YASMIN<br>
Beginning September 1, 2008<br>
<br>
Discussion On YASMIN, led by <b>Ranulph Glanville.</b><br>
Moderators Ranulph Glanville, Paul Brown, Paul Pangaro<br>
<br>
40 years ago, Jasia Reichart's exhibition "Cybernetic Serendipity"
showed that cybernetics, computing and art had arrived.<br>
<br>
40 years later, while computers and art remain, cybernetics has nearly
vanished, although there is a reviving interest in art.<br>
<br>
In celebrating Cybernetic Serendipity we have the chance to re-open the
debate, to reconsider the relationship particularly between cybernetics
and art, and to do so taking into account the way that cybernetics has
developed during its period of near invisibility.<br>
<br>
So what is new in cybernetics, and how can that inform art. And, what
is new in art, and how can that inform cybernetics.<br>
<br>
This is a chance to reopen the connection, to explore again, and to
move beyond some of the current models taken from cognitive science,
computing, AI and AL, and complexity, to the (much more radical) field
of their origin: cybernetics.<br>
<br>
List of Discussants:<br>
<br>
Albert Mueller: albert.mueller ( @ ) <a href="http://univie.ac.at">univie.ac.at</a><br>
Andreas Giannakoulopoulos: andreas ( @ ) <a href="http://utopia.gr">utopia.gr</a><br>
Andrew Brouse: abrouse ( @ ) <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a><br>
Enrique Rivera: or.enrique ( @ ) <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a><br>
Ian Clothier: I.Clothier ( @ ) <a href="http://witt.ac.nz">witt.ac.nz</a><br>
Jasia Reichart: jreichardt ( @ ) <a href="http://btopenworld.com">btopenworld.com</a><br>
Julien Knebusch: jknebusch ( @ ) <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a><br>
Mitchell Whitelaw: mitchell.whitelaw ( @ ) <a
href="http://canberra.edu.au">canberra.edu.au</a><br>
Paul Brown: paul ( @ ) <a href="http://paul-brown.com">paul-brown.com</a><br>
Paul Pangaro: pan ( @ ) <a href="http://pangaro.com">pangaro.com</a><br>
Ranulph Glanville: ranulph ( @ ) <a href="http://glanville.co.uk">glanville.co.uk</a>,<br>
ranulph ( @ ) <a href="http://mac.com">mac.com</a><br>
Roger Malina: rmalina ( @ ) <a href="http://alum.mit.edu">alum.mit.edu</a><br>
Stephen Jones: sjones ( @ ) <a href="http://culture.com.au">culture.com.au</a><br>
<br>
</span>YASMIN is a network of artists, scientists, engineers,
theoreticians and institutions promoting communication and
collaboration in art, science and technology around the Mediterranean.
Everyone is welcome. To subscribe, visit: <a
href="http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin/"
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