the cybernetic people announce heinz von foerster congress 05, 11 - 13.11 in vienna. (the website should be up and running next week). ranulph glanville will be there and talk about design as construct, alfred inselberg, mr multi dimensions, stuart umpleby, talking about "quadrant diagrams, levels of conceptualization and requisite variety" - no idea what that means, but sounds impressiv. from the austrian crew: peter fleissner, haven't heard about him for a long time, josef mitterer and his paradox/paradoxieren, the müllers, susanne kratochwil/josef benedikt, raumtänze, ...

eintritt frei. someone will ask: why are you here?

... ‘system converging on a goal’ where the goal is stability of experience, also known as ‘learning’ ...

conversation as synchronization of a priori asynchronous processes, gordon pask.

don't fear recursion:

‘In recursion, something new arises. Only in recursion can we have a intelligence’ (maturana)

quotes out of paul pangaro's paper the past-future of cybernetics

who is in vienna, has some interest in cybernetic and also time should go to echoraum on the 13th of novembre. they are playing videos in which heinz von foerster and some other historical figuers appear.

Sechshauser Straße 66, 13:00 - 23:00 Uhr, Eintritt frei

Videodokumentation über die Verleihung der Norbert-Wiener- Memorial-Gold-Medal an Heinz von Foerster, Chicago 1995. Mit Stafford Beer, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Humbero Maturana, Gordon Pask und Robert Vallée. "Understanding Understanding"- Vier Vorlesungen von Heinz von Foerster, Videodokumentation, Kalifornien 1980 "Recollecting Ludwig Wittgenstein", Videodokumentation, Norwegen 1992. Nikola Bock: Tanz mit der Welt (D 1996) Susanne Freund: KybernEthik (A 1995) Franz Reichle: Monte Grande - What is Life? (CH 2004) Lutz Dammbeck: The Net (D 2003)