[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Cybernetics Serendipity Redux on YASMIN

[Leonardo/ISAST]

*Leonardo/OLATS, co-sponsor of YASMIN, is pleased to announce:

**Cybernetics Serendipity Redux

*A moderated discussion on YASMIN
Beginning September 1, 2008

Discussion On YASMIN, led by *Ranulph Glanville.*
Moderators Ranulph Glanville, Paul Brown, Paul Pangaro

40 years ago, Jasia Reichart's exhibition "Cybernetic Serendipity" 
showed that cybernetics, computing and art had arrived.

40 years later, while computers and art remain, cybernetics has nearly 
vanished, although there is a reviving interest in art.

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.

So what is new in cybernetics, and how can that inform art. And, what is 
new in art, and how can that inform cybernetics.

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.

List of Discussants:

Albert Mueller: albert.mueller ( @ ) univie.ac.at <http://univie.ac.at>
Andreas Giannakoulopoulos: andreas ( @ ) utopia.gr <http://utopia.gr>
Andrew Brouse: abrouse ( @ ) gmail.com <http://gmail.com>
Enrique Rivera: or.enrique ( @ ) gmail.com <http://gmail.com>
Ian Clothier: I.Clothier ( @ ) witt.ac.nz <http://witt.ac.nz>
Jasia Reichart: jreichardt ( @ ) btopenworld.com <http://btopenworld.com>
Julien Knebusch: jknebusch ( @ ) gmail.com <http://gmail.com>
Mitchell Whitelaw: mitchell.whitelaw ( @ ) canberra.edu.au 
<http://canberra.edu.au>
Paul Brown: paul ( @ ) paul-brown.com <http://paul-brown.com>
Paul Pangaro: pan ( @ ) pangaro.com <http://pangaro.com>
Ranulph Glanville: ranulph ( @ ) glanville.co.uk <http://glanville.co.uk>,
ranulph ( @ ) mac.com <http://mac.com>
Roger Malina: rmalina ( @ ) alum.mit.edu <http://alum.mit.edu>
Stephen Jones: sjones ( @ ) culture.com.au <http://culture.com.au>

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institutions promoting communication and collaboration in art, science 
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