The presentation slides of Slavik Jablan’s ‘Do You Like Paleolithic Op-art?’ can be downloaded here.

The paper of Slavik Jablan’s ‘Do You Like Paleolithic Op-art?’ can be downloaded here.

In the morning of August 1st C:ADM2010 continued to address Theme 1 of the conference: Actual and abstract: Moving from actual to abstract is understood; but how do we move from abstract to actual? What are the relations between models that are conceptual, computational and physical? how are the differences productive?. To develop as well [...]

This is the presentation schedule for the evening of Sunday the 1st of August, along with photos of some of the presentations.

On the afternoon of July 31st C:ADM2010 addressed Theme 1 of the conference: Actual and abstract: Moving from actual to abstract is understood; but how do we move from abstract to actual? What are the relations between models that are conceptual, computational and physical? how are the differences productive? Following a briefing by Paul Pangaro, [...]

As a warm-up exercise before the main conference sessions, Ranulph Glanville conducted a singing exercise planned by Aartje Hulstein and himself, consisting of rehearsals in the EMPAC Theater and a subsequent performance in the EMPAC Concert Hall. The result is a piece titled Sitting Wave, consisting of two movements, which were played back to the [...]

On the morning of the 31st of July, the main conference C:ADM2010 was formally opened with a meeting led by Ted Krueger. It contained welcoming speeches by Robert E. Palazzo, Provost of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Evan Douglis, Dean at the School of Architecture at RPI, Johannes Goebel, Director of EMPAC and Ranulph Glanville, President of [...]

If you have pictures of C:ADM2010 and/or its surrounding events, please share them at C:ADM2010 Flickr page. To upload your pictures to flicker, log into flicker using the login ID “cadm.2010″ and the password “cybernetics”. If you wish to make sure that the use of your photos by the ASC (for example here [...]

Following the opening dinner EMPAC treated the conference community to an astonishing work-in-progress presentation by EMPAC’s artist in residence Lars Jan/Early Morning Opera titled Abacus.

Abacus performed at EMPAC

On the afternoon of the second day of the ASC meeting, members of the Society offered three parallel workshops to introduce interested conference participants to cybernetic ideas. The workshops were conducted by A) Stuart Umpleby and Albert Mueller, B) Larry Richards and C) Christiane Herr, Ranulph Glanville and Thomas Fischer.

Albert Müller and Stuart [...]

Discussion during the second day of the ASC meeting

Stuart Umpleby facilitated the second day of discussions of a series of four on the current state of cybernetics and of the American Society for Cybernetics. The collected outcomes of the ASC meeting can be downloaded in PDF format here.