Cybernetics of Cybernetics

19 th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
University of Vienna
25-28 March 2008

EMCSR 2008 Schedule

Symposium C: The Cybernetics of Cybernetics: Cybernetics, Interaction and Conversation
R. Glanville, UK
Wednesday, March 26, a.m. Room 46
11:00-11:30
Conversing with Cultural Information Systems and Reflections on the Cybernetics of Adaptive Knowledge Systems
G. Mallen, System Simulation Ltd, London, United Kingdom
11:30-12:00
Artstations Practice and a Cybernetic Canon
G. Davidson, A. Hayes, N. Tresilian, Artstation Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
12:00-12:30
The Mechanical Homunculus
S. Gage, C. Leung, The Bartlett University College, London, UK
12:30-13:00
Holistic Cybernetics Conceived as the Result of a Gradually Lessened "Detachment of the Observer"
L. Loefgren, University of Lund, Sweden
Thursday, March 27, p.m. Room 46
14:00-14:30
"Betweeness" Developments in Conversation Theory
P. Medina-Martins, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
14:30-15:00
Cybernetic Contributions to a Theory of Communication: the Case of Donald M. MacKay and Gordon Pask
A. Mueller, Universitaet Wien, Austria
15:00-15:30
Understanding Interactivity: Artistic Reflections on Cybernetics
D. Galkin, Tomsk State University, Russia
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-16:30
Analysing and Representing "Conversational Domains"
B. Scott, C. Cong, Cranfield University, Defence Academy, UK
16:30-17:00
Cedric Price and Gordon Pask: The Japan Net Experience (1986)
G.M. Furtado, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
17:00-17:30
Dangerous Gap between Culture and Nature
A. Rosicky, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic
17:30-18:00
Conversational Environments Revisited
R. Glynn, Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK
Friday, March 28, a.m. Room 46
11:00-11:30
Anthropic Construction of Social Systems
R. Jung, Center of Systems Research, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
11:30-12:00
Underspecified Architecture Performatives
O. Khan, University Buffalo, NY, USA
12:00-12:30
An Intentional Reflection: The Designer Versus Variety
R. Roberts, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, United Kingdom
12:30-13:00
Pask at the Center
R.S. Glanville, CybernEthics Research. United Kingdom.