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The Logics of Initiation | The Cybernetic Challenge
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CAiiA Recipient of the 2011 Award for Best Practice in Higher Education
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Category Archives: Research
Trojan Horses Published
Trojan Horses A Rattle Bag from the “Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics—A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation” post-conference workshop. compiled and edited by Ranulph Glanville with Mick Ashby | Thomas Fischer Christiane M Herr | Michael Hohl Aartje Hulstein | Louis H Kauffman Claudia … Continue reading
Posted in Inhabitable Theories, Research, Thoughts
Tagged American Society for Cybernetics, art, C:ADM 2010, cybernetics, design, edition echoraum, mathematics
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Myths of Complexity | pre-print version
There is a pre-print version available now of my text Myths of Complexity written for and published in Design Ecologies, Volume 1 Issue 2, November 2011. You can find it here: Claudia Westermann, Myths of Complexity (pre-print version). The manuscript of the presentation … Continue reading
Posted in Paper, Research, Thoughts
Tagged architecture, complexity, design ecologies, discourse, poetics, poiēsis
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The Logics of Initiation | The Cybernetic Challenge
[preliminary abstract for the Interactive Media Arts Conference IMAC 2012 in Copenhagen / accepted May 29] In the short story “Mimse go the Borogoves” written by Catherine Lucille Moore and Henry Kuttner under the pseudonym of Lewis Padgett, and for … Continue reading
2012/07/01 :: deadline for abstracts :: MutaMorphosis II
Prague in December, don’t miss this conference! Recently the call for abstracts for the MutaMorphosis II | Tribute to Uncertainty conference has been published. I would especially also welcome contributions to the stream of interest that I will be moderating: … Continue reading
2012/04/30 : : deadline 01 : : An Ecology of Ideas Conference
Asilomar, California, July 9 – 13, 2012. Invited and confirmed speakers include: Graham Barnes, Eric Bateson, Nora Bateson, Fritjof Capra, Ximena Dávila, Terry Deacon, Debora Hammond, Klaus Krippendorff, Humberto Maturana, Rex Weyler. Our ideas form, grow, and thrive in relationship. Ideas inspire and transform each other … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society for Cybernetics, An Ecology of Ideas, architecture, art, art and science connection, Bateson Idea Group, conference, conversation, cybernetics, Fritjof Capra, Humberto Maturana, Klaus Krippendorff, Nora Bateson, Radical Constructivism, Ranulph Glanville, Rex Weyler, science, second order cybernetics
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Escape Routes to the Future
We hope future generations find our humour useful for the models of thought and other escape routes that they shall construct! Arakawa & Gins
Posted in Research, Thoughts
Tagged Arakawa, architecture, art, fiction, future, literature, Madeline Gins, meaning, poetry
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An Update on Bateson’s An Ecology of Mind
I previously mentioned on this blog the Gregory Bateson documentary An Ecology of Mind that was directed by Nora Bateson. This post is just a quick update, giving some additional sources. There is a review of the documentary published in … Continue reading
CAiiA Recipient of the 2011 Award for Best Practice in Higher Education
Happy to announce that the institution at which I conducted my PhD research - the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Integrative Arts (CAiiA), hub of the Planetary Collegium - is the 2011 recipient of the World Universities Forum Award … Continue reading
Posted in (World), Research, Thoughts
Tagged art, award, CAiiA, education, PhD, Planetary Collegium, Roy Ascott, telematics, World Universities Forum
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MUZARC : : on music and architecture
I realized yesterday that, astonishingly enough, there are still some MUZARC CD-ROMs available from several online music dealers. MUZARC was the first CD-ROM on the German experimental music label selektion (see MUZARC intro at selektion). It was published back in 1999. So, … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, blue room, cd-rom, music, muzarc, new school, selektion, sound & space
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An Ecology of Mind, The Gregory Bateson Documentary
the film trailer: interview with Nora Bateson: There is a conference coming up in July 2012 in California, jointly organized by the American Society for Cybernetics & The Bateson Idea Group. An Ecology of Ideas Conference Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific … Continue reading