Technoetic ArtsPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1386/tear_00050_1
A. Baltazar
{"title":"Rethinking cybernetics with a transfunctional approach to structure and organization","authors":"A. Baltazar","doi":"10.1386/tear_00050_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00050_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article develops further a proposal for conversation at the ASC 2020 Global Conversation event, motivated by exchange of e-mails with Ranulph Glanville in 2007. Drawing from the questions raised by Glanville and myself, this article addresses the concept of autopoiesis and\u0000 the possibility of revisiting the concepts of structure and organization, which are discussed with an example of a transfunctional interface (structure) designed to invite people to configure unpredictable organizations. It examines the correspondence between structure and organization and\u0000 opens new questions to rethink cybernetics in the realm of relations.","PeriodicalId":41263,"journal":{"name":"Technoetic Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46638234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Technoetic ArtsPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1386/tear_00048_1
C. Herr
{"title":"Cybernetic exchanges in online events: Seven types of conversation in the ASC2020 Global Conversation","authors":"C. Herr","doi":"10.1386/tear_00048_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00048_1","url":null,"abstract":"As the first large online event of the American Society for Cybernetics, the ASC2020 Global Conversation offered an opportunity to develop new online types of cybernetic conversations on cybernetics, in cybernetic formats. This article discusses the design decisions that led\u0000 to a particular organizational structure of the event, and observations on how the event unfolded from this organizational structure. Based on observations made throughout the event as well as its preparation stage, the article maps seven different types of conversations taking place before\u0000 and during the event and discusses opportunities and constraints encountered in relation to each identified type. As online conferences have proliferated exponentially due to the impact of COVID-19, this article aims to contribute a cybernetic perspective to the broader discourse on scholarly\u0000 international exchange in online media, and offers a new perspective on how such conversations might be designed in a cybernetic manner.","PeriodicalId":41263,"journal":{"name":"Technoetic Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43932525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Technoetic ArtsPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1386/tear_00052_1
José dos Santos Cabral Filho
{"title":"From network to lacework: A new imaginary for global conversation","authors":"José dos Santos Cabral Filho","doi":"10.1386/tear_00052_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00052_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article departs from the consideration that global communication is not only a reality but also a challenge. This is because most of our communication does not involve dialogue but remains mere communication without achieving the creativity implied in true conversation. Departing\u0000 from Gordon Pask’s warning, in 1980, that too much togetherness would be hazardous in future information environments, this article proposes a playful displacement of images ‐ from network to lacework. The aim is to help us refine our gaze into the interconnectedness of the world,\u0000 or at least, into the intricacies of our contemporary culture and its global communication. The idea is that by using lace as an inspirational image we may go beyond the hazards of uniformity and triviality of our excessive togetherness. By doing so, we would allow space for a variety of local\u0000 patterns of dialogues, articulated around unspoken tensions and thus, allowing the emergency of genuine conversation.","PeriodicalId":41263,"journal":{"name":"Technoetic Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46339758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Technoetic ArtsPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1386/tear_00061_1
Ioannis Bardakos, Eirini Sourgiadaki, A. Lioret
{"title":"Deconstructing the isolated astronaut-artist paradigm","authors":"Ioannis Bardakos, Eirini Sourgiadaki, A. Lioret","doi":"10.1386/tear_00061_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00061_1","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of a viral outbreak and necessary physical distancing, the emergence of new or the evolution of older artistic behavioural schemes becomes evident. We correlate the isolation space of the artist with the cockpit of a spaceship and the navigation and communication interfaces\u0000 used by an astronaut. The cybernetic domain between physical space(s) and artist(s) can be thought of as consisting of many ‘organs’. It includes a core (black box), many-layered limits: skin, walls, mental and digital borders as well as mechanisms of connectivity with external\u0000 entities (other astronauts in art spaceships). This space could be a bedroom, a studio, an office or any different location the artist uses as an isolated bubble of information sharing and manipulation (material and immaterial). For the construction of such an (astronaut, artist) ontology\u0000 we use metaphors, etymological references, transformed concepts and creative analogies between the actual and the subjective space. As one case study for this paradigm, we experimented with a telematic performance of Heiner Müller’s Hamlet Machine titled, I want to be\u0000 171.","PeriodicalId":41263,"journal":{"name":"Technoetic Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45558630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Technoetic ArtsPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1386/tear_00056_1
L. Kauffman
{"title":"Reflections on reflexivity","authors":"L. Kauffman","doi":"10.1386/tear_00056_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00056_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a meditation on the theme that language in its ability to discuss and refer is naturally self-referential. This theme is a key to cybernetics. The ideas in this article are extensions of the author’s prior work: Kauffman (2009, 2012a, 2012b, 2015).","PeriodicalId":41263,"journal":{"name":"Technoetic Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43061925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Technoetic ArtsPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1386/tear_00062_1
Remina Greenfield, Shuyi Cao
{"title":"The edge of life-as-we-know-it: Aesthetics of decay within artificial life and art","authors":"Remina Greenfield, Shuyi Cao","doi":"10.1386/tear_00062_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00062_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article advocates further examination of the role decay aesthetics can play in artificial life (ALife or AL) and art. Opening with the poetics of decay and the shadow that decay taboo has cast in western culture, firstly, we reframe decay as a constructive process of transformation.\u0000 Secondly, we perform a brief historical survey of early artistic developments in the field of ALife, assessing how these early works addressed decay. We follow with a deeper analysis of contemporary artists through a lens of decay and decomposition, identifying new tendencies of ALife art\u0000 (deep time simulation, slime intelligence, molecular agents, techno resurrection and ecohybridized computation). Finally, we look to the peripheries of ALife to see how decay is rendered in current technical research and examine these projects with an eye for turbulent production in the form\u0000 of ‘decaying’ matter. We conclude with a number of open questions on decomposition and decay aesthetics, both within the artistic and technical realms of ALife.","PeriodicalId":41263,"journal":{"name":"Technoetic Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48878955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Technoetic ArtsPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1386/tear_00057_1
Skyler Perkins, Anika Jessup
{"title":"Cybernetics, design and regenerative economics","authors":"Skyler Perkins, Anika Jessup","doi":"10.1386/tear_00057_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00057_1","url":null,"abstract":"With unbridled exponential economic growth, earth systems and social systems are headed for catastrophic meltdown. Meanwhile, much of humanity is highly dependent on current institutions. Second-order cybernetics can help society come to grips with the enormous demand of adapting existing\u0000 institutions for a regenerative economy. While the current trajectory of increasing consumption and rapid ecological decay will lead to collapse, the progress achieved by civilization can be vindicated by large-scale investment in regenerating natural capital assets, developing open-source\u0000 technologies for the public good, and rebuilding local agricultural economies dedicated to health and well-being. It is recommended that regenerative practices are supported by academic institutions centered on place-based service-learning. A regenerative economy, in contrast to a growth economy,\u0000 is part of the pursuit of the long-term establishment of a steady-state economy. This vision does not limit the possibility that humanity will make outstanding technological progress, explore space or merge with artificial intelligence ‐ but argues that appreciating the nature’s\u0000 technology provided to humanity through eons evolution, and avoiding short-term self-destruction should be priorities.","PeriodicalId":41263,"journal":{"name":"Technoetic Arts","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41549690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Technoetic ArtsPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1386/tear_00058_1
L. Pawlik
{"title":"Death risk: Lack of movement: The ignored pandemic of digitalization escalates the COVID-19 crisis","authors":"L. Pawlik","doi":"10.1386/tear_00058_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00058_1","url":null,"abstract":"Data analysis from diverse medical fields suggests that we have reached a tipping point in the digitalization dynamic through the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, leading to an escalation of physical inactivity and related diseases. The lack of prioritization of physical activity designed to\u0000 intervene against obesity, diabetes, loneliness, depression, anxiety disorders and suicide risk could destabilize our current global health system beyond rehabilitation. To counteract this, the author outlines the basis for a sustainable solution to best integrate physical activity into work,\u0000 daily life and education. In addition, he highlights the potential benefits of combining exercise training with microdosing of psilocybin or of active ingredient essences of psilocybin-containing mushrooms. The article also shows that the integration of mindfulness-based practice and neuroplastic\u0000 movement practice is a necessity and a competitive advantage for the future.","PeriodicalId":41263,"journal":{"name":"Technoetic Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44692925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Technoetic ArtsPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1386/tear_00047_1
Michael Munton
{"title":"Leading by design: The synergy of second-order cybernetics and transformative leadership","authors":"Michael Munton","doi":"10.1386/tear_00047_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00047_1","url":null,"abstract":"As cyberneticians living at this pivotal moment for global change, we see on the horizon exciting new prospects as well as ferocious storms. Who is qualified to navigate and give direction at such high stakes? If cybernetics is the art of navigating towards goals, it has much to offer\u0000 to leaders and leadership theory. In this article, I share my personal account of the ASC Global Conversations Conference as someone newly introduced to cybernetics and how it is influencing my development as a transformative leader.","PeriodicalId":41263,"journal":{"name":"Technoetic Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43323415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}