Événement

Cybernetics Conference 2017

Link to workshop tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3125725

"Cybernetics: Or control and communication in the animal and the machine." Norbert Wiener

The Cybernetics Conference will take up the subject of information and agency; bringing scholars, technicians, activists, and artists in dialogue to consider the ways informatic systems shape social organization.

How does the circulation of media materialize as social behavior? Cybernetics, the discipline Nam June Paik once described as the exploration of boundary regions between and across various existing sciences, offers a powerful framework for reasoning about the complexities of human-machine interaction.

This conference will ask how individuals and small coalitions might develop new strategies for engaging information systems which situate them as effective agents of change. Essential to this project is reading technopolitics as more than an architecture of rules, but an artifact of cultural production-a cybernated social body, comprised of the aspirations, failures, and energies of a dynamic information ecosystem.

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Schedule
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Workshops
November 15-17th
Prime Produce (424 W 54th St, NYC)
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Workshop tickets are available separately here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3125725

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Main Event
November 18th
Prime Produce (424 W 54th St, NYC)
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Speakers:

Wendy Chun
McKenzie Wark
Shannon Mattern
Paul Soulellis
Frank Pasquale
Mimi Onuoha
Allison Parrish
Jessica Behm
Lars TCF Holdus

The Cybernetics Library:

A temporary circulating cybernetics research library including contributions from the Reanimation Library. Installed at Prime Produce inside a giant inflatable bubble from November 15-18.
Guests of the conference & viewers at home will participate in a live social simulation developed by Francis Tseng & Dan Taeyoung, bringing video streams and curated library materials into a shared virtual environment.

Cybernetics Librarian: Sarah Hamerman
Library Architect: David Hecht
Simulation Architect: Dan Taeyoung
Cybernetics Publisher: Charles Eppley
Conference Organizers: Sam Hart, Melanie Hoff, Francis Tseng

Partners:

ConsenSys
Avant.org
Prime Produce
The New Inquiry
Monoskop

For more information: http://cybernetics.social/