C:ADM second announcement

The conference “Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics – A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation” of the American Society of Cybernetics will be held in Troy, New York, 29 July to 2 August 2010.

“We believe that this conference will be an exciting and vibrant event that will help define ways forward in all 4 fields and will encourage enrichment of all 4 through learning from and with each other – which we take to be the reason for being interdisciplinary. Our conference has as its primary aim to develop what we might think of as next questions rather than report on answers to last questions, through discussion in groups and in plenary sessions. It is a conference where the main business will be to confer, not to report. Evenings have been left free as time for performance, exhibition and ideas that appear during the conference itself.”

Teil der Welt. Fraktale einer Ethik oder Heinz von Foersters Tanz mit der Welt (2. Auflage) by Heinz von Foerster and Monika Bröcker.

Eine detailreiche Biographie von Heinz von Foerster, die Einblick gibt in sein Lebenswerk und seine wichtigsten Ideen vorstellt.

From Being to Doing by Humberto R. Maturana and Bernhard Pörksen.

This is the English version of their 2002 book “Vom Sein zum Tun”. It provides a detailled personal history of Maturana’s Biology of Cognition.

Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition by Heinz von Foerster, published by Springer-Verlag 2003.

In these essays Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge..

An Unfinished Revolution? Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL), 1958-1976 edited by Albert Müller & Karl Müller, published by Edition Echoraum 2007.

“This is a fascinating analysis of the scientific agenda of Heinz von Foerster, clearly one of the major scientists of the twentieth century.” (J. R. Hollingsworth, Univ. Wisconsin)