The latest issue of Constructivist Foundations constructivist.info/21/1 features two articles on Humberto Maturana. One is a previously unpublished conversation with Ignacio Muñoz-Cristi on anthroporobotics. The other, co-authored by Andrey S. Druzhinin & Diego A. Ramírez, is on uncertainty. 1/4

Call for Participation for the ASC 2026 Conference: Conversational Confluences, to be held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, from August 3 to 7, 2026. Submission: December 22, 2025, to February 23, 2026 More information: events.asc-cybernetics.org/2026/ #cybernetics #art #design #Beer100 #vsm

This year's conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), "Conceptualising Environments" (www.virtual-lsa.uk/ahra2025/), has concluded. Thanks to AHRA (Nick Beech), the organising team, Christina Malathouni, Yat Shun (Juliana) Kei, and Ranald Lawrence...

Join us for Ecologies of Knowing: Design Cybernetics Day October 12, 2025, online | Hosted by #NewMacy and @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social at Systemic Design Symposium (RSD14) rsdsymposium.org/ecologies-of... #cybernetics #systemicdesign #conference

An excellent article. It will be included in the next issue. If you are a subscriber to Technoetic Arts, you can read it now.

We are happy to report that Technoetic Arts 23.1 is on the way! The special issue collects articles from TTT2023 Malta, the 5th international conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science". Edited by Dalila Honorato @dlila.bsky.social. Preview at: ta.pubpub.org/pub/ttt-malt....

My weekend reading recommendation. Open access.

Happy to report this achievement. 1001 thanks to our authors, reviewers and readers!

From organiser Georgi Gardiner on FB: "Next week people will gather online to celebrate the philosophical artworks of Helen De Cruz. (@helendecruz.net) Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 11am - 12.20pm Central US Time (i.e. 5pm BST) on Zoom All welcome! No background knowledge required."

Experience a small courtyard inhabited by four families in Haiyan village, Kunming, China and the objects and materials that make a village household’s everyday tangible in its aesthetic dimension. @systemic-design.bsky.social rsdsymposium.org/symphony-of-... #publicart #revitalization #design

The recording of "Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and More-than-Human Design: A conversation on the role of human subjectivity in understanding more-than-human lifeworlds." is on YouTube: youtu.be/yqZEcifvkgg?... @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social with Annan Zuo, Frederick Steier and Claudia Westermann

WOW: Absolute RESPECT to Cecilia Culver for delivering a courageous, and kickass, commencement speech that calls out her university's complicity with genocide www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6w...

This is in a few hours on Sunday - online - and the registration is free. Merve Sahin in conversation with Dulmini Perera. Join us in exploring Gordon Pask’s CASTE implementation in the design of Edwin Schlossberg’s Learning Environment at The Brooklyn Children's Museum.

I am happy to announce that the open access proceedings volume with selected contributions to the 2024 Architecture Across Boundaries conference has been published. Links to each chapter are provided on the book's Contents page: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #systemicdesign #architecture

Merve Sahin in conversation with Dulmini Perera: join us in exploring Gordon Pask’s CASTE implementation in the design of Edwin Schlossberg’s Learning Environment at The Brooklyn Children's Museum.

Limited print edition offer extended to April 23! The ASC60 special issue includes a selected contributions to the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social American Society for Cybernetics. Head to the journal's website constructivist.info/20/2 at the latest on April 23.

My Earth Day text. Written in 2021 but more valid today. The manuscript is available for download here: philpapers.org/archive/WESO...

Circular Currents: Feedback, Intelligence, Emergent Systems Saturday, April 26, 10 AM EDT + Sunday, April 27, 10 AM EDT (ca. 90 minutes per session) FREE REGISTRATION us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #art #artscience #cybernetics

Registered users can download up to three articles per day without charge. Everyone can register for free on the journal's website: constructivist.info/subscribe.cgi. With a voluntary subscription before April 23, you will get a print copy of the special issue per post.

8 AM, Easter Sunday. I was not on an Egg Hunt today, but it seems I found an egg anyway. Someone placed one of my (early) writings within distinguished company. Their text is here: doi.org/10.1080/0803...

The editorial to the special issue of Constructivist Foundations with selected papers from the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics provides an overview of its four thematic conversations. Open access. constructivist.info/20/2/067 #cybernetics #recursivity

The ASC60 issue of Constructivist Foundations features four extended contributions to the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics – each accompanied by five to seven commentaries and an authors' response. constructivist.info/20/2 #Cybernetics @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social

Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and More-than-Human Design A conversation on the role of human subjectivity in understanding more-than-human lifeworlds. Sunday, Apr 13, 9:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT FREE REGISTRATION us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Full text: shorturl.at/aECLb #cybernetics #ecology

Open access. I am happy to share a new publication whose first author is my former PhD student, Fatemeh Taherysayah. The article presents a new architectural design methodology that aims for a better integration of user experience. With Hai-Ning Liang. #neuroarchitecture doi.org/10.1080/1750...

Last day to log your Intent-to-submit. Final submissions due by April 30. Need help? Reach out to [email protected]. Take 5 minutes now to do this. bit.ly/RSD14-CfP. #systemicdesign #RSD14 | sketchnote Patsy Kambitsch, Playthink

The deadline for POM2025 has been extended. Abstract are now due on March 29.

Introducing AMC, the Art, Media, and Cybernetics Working Group! As part of the ASC, we explore how cybernetics shapes art and media through discussions, events, and an evolving index of artists and ideas. Join us in rethinking art as a reflexive system! Image Credit: Ascott, R. (1959–1960).

AMC Working Group: Inaugural Speaker & Panel Series The AMC - Art, Media, and CyberneticsWorking Group is pleased to announce its first series of events in March and April 2025. Keynote Conversation – March 23, 2025 - 10 AM EST - Panel Series – April 26-27, 2025 Sign up: buff.ly/roMRE4n

Acting with the World: The Choreography of Agency Conversation to explore an unfamiliar but important pattern of environmental action attuned to the agency of nature and wicked problems 📅 Sunday, March 16, 2025 ⏰ 9:00 AM PDT | 12:00 PM EDT | 5:00 PM CEST 👉 Register now: https://buff.ly/4gWeVFX

Join us for Synthetic Sentience in Perth, Australia, 16-18 July 2025 – the 5th Politics of the Machines conference. The abstracts for all seven tracks are due on March 15. www.pomconference.org/pom-perth-20... #artscience #art #systemicdesign #indigenouslogics #quantumphysics #cybernetics

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

The Sea issue is out! Subscribers can access the entire issue now on Intellect Discover. Access via academic libraries will take a few more weeks.

I am happy to report that the special Sea Issue of Technoetic Arts is with the printers! Thanks to Bill Psarras for guest editing this issue. See a preview with all abstracts on TA's pubpub page: ta.pubpub.org/pub/22-2-sea #art #water #sea #ecology #technoeticarts #mediaart

Cybernetics and Political Organisation Speaker: Rodrigo Nunes Host: Howard Silverman This talk will pick up on and develop some of the cybernetic themes in Nunes' book "Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organisation" (Verso, 2021). Free: www.eventbrite.com/e/cybernetic...

Glickman & Sharot "reveal a feedback loop where human–AI interactions alter processes underlying human perceptual, emotional and social judgements, subsequently amplifying biases in humans." doi.org/10.1038/s415... #AIbias #AI #criticalAI

New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Au contraire. LLMs show why Kant was right and Hume was wrong: you don't get causal understanding just from predicting correlations (and they don't even strictly speaking predict anything; we use them to do that). www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search" This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!! www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Since 2016, Semi Ryu's embodied avatar performance (EAP) has explored healing rituals at the intersection of arts, health and virtual reality (VR) involving a variety of individuals, including cancer patients. doi.org/10.1386/tear... #arttherapy #avatar #virtualreality #healingritual

I don’t understand reviewers that point out a fundamental epistemological and definitional issue and still recommend accept based on technical soundness… i strongly think if technical soundness that rests on shaky epistemological ground is no use

The next AHRA conference will take place 22-24 November 2025 at the University of Liverpool. The call for sessions is now open - submit your proposals until 17 February 2025, 5 pm (GMT)!! www.virtual-lsa.uk/ahra2025/ #architecture #humanities #ahra #liverpool

Written by Nikita Peresin Meden, Kristina Pranjić and Peter Purg "Taming the Forest" takes an interdisciplinary project as a case study for researching conflicting narratives of biodiversity. doi.org/10.1386/tear... Library: search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?d... #artbasedresearch #art #artscience

In "Blood, Sweat and Tears: Kinning Otherwise through Art", Nora S. Vaage and Merete Lie explore possibilities of kinship with other species and plants through a molecular gaze: doi.org/10.1386/tear... Library link: search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?d... #art #bioart #artsci #artscience #technoetic

In "Paradox, cybernetics and infinite poetry", Robert Schumann’s 1839 piano work Humoreske serves author Kate Doyle as an initiation for an exploration of form, time and paradox. doi.org/10.1386/tear... Via library: search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?d... #art #music #poetry #technoetic #cybernetics

In an article published in the latest issue of Technoetic Arts, Dulmini Perera discusses Mary Catherine Bateson's approach to cultivating a better understanding of change doi.org/10.1386/tear... You may have free access to the article via your academic library. #cybernetics #systems #ecology

Technoetic Arts welcomes contributions between 5,000–7,500 words that focus upon the juncture between art, technology and the mind. Submissions for issue 2 of 2025 can be made until 15 February 2025. #art #technoetic #artscience ta.pubpub.org/pub/2025-call

With the next issue already on the way, this is a notice that Issue 22.1 of Technoetic Arts is now available via academic libraries. The Technoetic Arts website includes links to all articles on EBSCOhost. ta.pubpub.org/pub/22-1

The project was an experiment in thinking through human-decentered-design and framing eco-technical systems. It was used to build a sound-art installation at MSU with @litradesign.bsky.social - more here! www.cyberneticforests.com/news/worldin...

The Edinburgh Futures Institute Visiting Fellowship: efi.ed.ac.uk/research/vis...