Arun Chandra
COM 301
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505

Telephone:  (+1) (360) 867-6077

Fax:  (+1) (360) 867-6663

Now to link all these and generate a temporary web that holds our multi-various-many-sided-eyes-and-ears-and-fingers together ...

where your eye notices and winks
while mine is just bleary and blinks

and so the need of one for the other came about

and one brain saw a bird and fled
and the other saw the stain and laughed

and the two inhabited different worlds at the same time and in the same place

seeing each other as each wanted to see
and avoiding the glance that might have suggested something else

and this cybernetic, dragged down by talk and raised up by talking sought shelter in a dance

that kept moving out of reach

as the dancer knew what she could not say
and talker said what she did not know

and so a partnership was born --- the papers signed, the notary notarized the incorporation incorporealized

and what was two was lost to one, and the alternatives dwindled

until at last and long last past they had a disagreement, and needed each other again,

so long as the next agreement threatens,
the need of anticommunication remains.

Evening events, including the keynote addresses, will take place at The Evergreen State College and at the Washington Performing Arts Center.

The 2009 ASC Conference invites a variety of contributions including and not limited to:

• papers
• performances
• displays
• symposia
• workshops
• panels
• hosted conversations

Examples of relevant topics include: information theory, circular causality, feedback, systems and boundaries, radical constructivism, social design, and second-order cybernetics.

Other subjects connected to cybernetics are also welcome!

Performances of music, theater and poetry that manifest a concern for or reflections on imagined and existing systems, their composition, decay, and development, will be held every evening.

Suggestions for paper presentations, panel topics, or guided conversations are welcome, and should be sent to conference organizer Arun Chandra.

Arun Chandra
COM 301
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505

Telephone:  (+1) (360) 867-6077

Fax:  (+1) (360) 867-6663

Susan Parenti

(Composer of texts, musics, social projects, and not-yet social ideas)
 

Louis Kauffman

(Mathematician)

More than 35 individual contribution proposals have been accepted for presentation.

A number of former students and friends of Herbert Brün have been invited to give presentations on Brün's musical, literary and graphic works, and the works they engendered.

Attendees will be housed at the Governor Hotel (Olympia), 6 blocks from the Olympia Community Center (where the conference day events will be held).

A block of 50 rooms has been held for attendees at the Governor Hotel.

Single rooms are $89 per night, and double rooms are $99 per night.

The rooms will be held until February 19, 2009 (three weeks before the meeting).

The phone number for the hotel is (360) 352-7700.

The closest international airport to Olympia is the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac), which is about 1 hour away by car.

Portland Oregon's airport is approximately 2 hours away by car.

If you fly into Sea-Tac, Capital Aeroporter runs a shuttle that runs approximately every hour between Sea-Tac and the Governor Hotel.

American Society for Cybernetics
2009 Conference
Fee Structure
 

CATEGORY	APPLICABLE FEE(S)	FEE AMOUNT
ASC Members (Full/Waged)	Conference fee only	US$ 110.00
Others (not ASC members) (Full/Waged)	Conference fee plus ASC membership for 2009	US$ 190.00 Non-member registration fee represents an amount equal to the ASC member conference registration fee plus 1 year's membership dues at the lower 2008 rate. Non-members will be enrolled as full ASC members for the remainder of the 2009 membership year (through 31 December 2009).
Students 'Student' means full time undergraduate or graduate students.	Conference fee plus ASC student membership for 2009	US$ 35.00 Student registrants will be enrolled as student ASC members for the remainder of the 2009 membership year (through 31 December 2009). This is a substantial discount; 2009 student memberships are ordinarily $40.00 by themselves.
Non-Students / Limited Income This category includes non-students (cf. above definition of 'students') who are retired or earn less than US $30,000 in annual income.	Conference fee only	US$ 50.00 Non-student limited income registrations do not include ASC membership for 2009.

Our online 2009 Conference registration process is:

• Efficient - You only need fill out the online form, enter payment data, and you're done!

• Secure - The ACTEVA.com registration site uses a secure / encrypted connection for ASC registrations.

• Economical - By eliminating paperwork and postal delays, ASC is able to reduce overhead for managing the Society's 2009 Conference management workload.