I thought this may be of interest to curators in particlar
Yours
Beryl
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> From: Annick Bureaud <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 1 September 2008 11:24:44 BST
> To: Annick Bureaud <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [OlatsNewsEnglish] Cybernetics Serendipity Redux
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> 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
> Andreas Giannakoulopoulos: andreas ( @ ) utopia.gr
> Andrew Brouse: abrouse ( @ ) gmail.com
> Enrique Rivera: or.enrique ( @ ) gmail.com
> Ian Clothier: I.Clothier ( @ ) witt.ac.nz
> Jasia Reichart: jreichardt ( @ ) btopenworld.com
> Julien Knebusch: jknebusch ( @ ) gmail.com
> Mitchell Whitelaw: mitchell.whitelaw ( @ ) canberra.edu.au
> Paul Brown: paul ( @ ) paul-brown.com
> Paul Pangaro: pan ( @ ) pangaro.com
> Ranulph Glanville: ranulph ( @ ) glanville.co.uk,
> ranulph ( @ ) mac.com
> Roger Malina: rmalina ( @ ) alum.mit.edu
> Stephen Jones: sjones ( @ ) culture.com.au
>
>
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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland
Ashburne House,
Ryhope Road
Sunderland
SR2 7EE
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CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
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