Events

1. ASC 2026 Conference: Conversational Confluences
2. Speaker Series: Emergent Territories
3. New Macy Meetings
4. Cybernetics and systems organizations calendar
5. Past events
6. ASC initiatives (activities vary according to the group’s dynamic)

ASC 2026 Conference: Conversational Confluences

August 3–7, 2026

Join us in Ouro Preto, Brazil for the American Society for Cybernetics conference, Conversational Confluences.

Confluence, as articulated by Brazilian thinker and activist Nego Bispo, provides a framework for reflecting on how diverse worldviews, practices, and epistemologies can coexist without losing their distinct identities. Rather than assimilation or homogenization, confluence is about mutual amplification, where differences are not obstacles but sources of strength. Like rivers merging to become stronger, this coming together creates new, more resilient possibilities of coexistence. Rooted in decolonial and counter-hegemonic struggles, the concept invites us to imagine collaborations that foster plurality and the emergence of new systems of living and knowing. Building on this understanding, the ASC 2026 meeting seeks to explore how cybernetics can participate in such confluences — through encounters and experiments that bring it into dialogue with art, design, technology, ecology, and situated knowledge.

More information

ASC Speakers Series Season #6: Emergent Territories

Virtual conversations on cybernetic topics from a diverse group of theorists and practitioners.

Formats alternates between interviews, presentations, conversations, and more. They are typically held on the third Sunday of each month at 9:00 PT, 12:00 ET, 18:00 CET.

Speaker Series page and previous recordings

#NewMacyMeetings

A revival of the original Macy Meetings, the trans-disciplinary conversations at the founding of Cybernetics in the 1940s and 1950s, redefined for the 21st century to include trans-global and trans-generational participation.

List of events #NewMacy Meetings