Cybernetics Revisited – Towards A Third Order?, Leonardo Electronic Almanac
Senior Editors for this volume: Lanfranco Aceti and Morten Søndergaard.
Von Foerster coined the idea of a ‘cybernetics of cybernetics’ as a way to analyze the control of control and the (set-up of) communication of communication(-systems). The question is if a ‘third order’ cybernetics is emerging… and, if so, what would it entail?
Paper Proposals dealing with one or more of the following subjects within this conceptual framing will be welcome:
(Norbert) Wiener Classic
Cybernetics, art and politics
Bio-cybernetics
Interactive media art – towards a ‘third order’?
Deadline for 500 word abstract August 31, 2012
Link:
http://www.leoalmanac.org/cybernetics-revisited-lea-call-for-papers/
Lanfranco Aceti works as an academic, artist and curator. He is Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths College, Department of Art and Computing, London; teaches Contemporary Art and Digital Culture at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul; is Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (the MIT Press, Leonardo journal and ISAST); and is currently Director of Kasa Gallery, Istanbul. He is the Founder of Director of the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC) and of Operational and Curatorial Research in Art, Design, Science and Technology (OCR). He was Artistic Director and Conference Chair for ISEA2011 Istanbul.
He has a Ph.D. from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London and has published, lectured and exhibited internationally.
http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com
http://www.museumofcontemporarycuts.org
http://kasagaleri.sabanciuniv.edu/
marc garrett