@asc-cybernetics
ASC has active interests in first and second order cybernetics, general systems thinking, and the application of these ideas. Our purposes are the advancement of cybernetics and its promotion.
Join us in exploring cyber-systemic thinking as a way of touching the unknown and welcoming problems before attempting to resolve them.
Track 8: Cyber-Systemic Confluences — Gathering the Dispersed, Refocusing the Distracted
Organizerd by José Cabral, Sandro Luis Schlindwein, Mateus van Stralen
Join us in turning observation back upon itself, challenging the claimed objectivity of algorithmic governance through the reflexive lens of second-order cybernetics.
Track 7: Epistemology After the Algorithm: A Second-Order Cybernetic Intervention
Organized by Arantzazu Saratxaga
Join us in reframing maps and models, not as instruments of surveillance, but as intimate and recursive practices woven into the world's unfolding.
Track 6: Competing Cartographies: Mapping as Practice of Recursive Becoming
Organized by the Art, Media, Cybernetics Working Group
Join us in weaving Indigenous relationality, quantum thinking, and AI reflexivity into a living dialogue
Track 5: Entangled Confluences — Designing Relational Futures through Indigenous Wisdom, Quantum Theory, and AI Reflexivity
Organized by R. Eva King and Frederick Steier
Join us in drifting through unsteered ecologies, exploring futures that emerge from noise, chance, and syncretic encounter.
Futuribles — Ἀκυβέρνητος (Akybérnētos): Drifting Ecologies-as-Cosmologies
Clarissa Ribeiro, Victoria Vesna, Jill Scott, Claudia Jacques, Rewa Wright, Tania Fraga, Rejane Spitz
Join us in exploring the many gardens of Ouro Preto in a conversation on cybernetics, posthumanism, and new materialism.
Track 3: Hybrid Matters
Organized by Graziele Lautenschlaeger, Merve Keskin, Thibaud Chassin
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Join us in Ouro Preto, Brazil, for a conversation on cybernetics and more-than-human design at the 2026 ASC Conference - Conversational Confluences.
Track 2: Pluriversal More-than-Human Design
Organized by Annan Zuo, Claudia Westermann, Frederick Steier
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This year, we are celebrating 100 years of the life and work of Stafford Beer. At the 2026 ASC conference, Conversational Confluences, we have a special track that invites participants to reflect on his work.
More on this and other tracks on events.asc-cybernetics.org/2026/confere...
We are pleased to inform that we are extending the abstract submission deadline for ASC Brasil 2026: Conversational Confluences to March 16!
Ouro Preto, Brazil | August 3–7
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* Contributors who do not require feedback for funding may submit until April 27.
Call for Participation | ASC 2026
Ouro Preto, Brazil | August 3–7, 2026
The American Society for Cybernetics is pleased to announce that the Call for Participation is now open for ASC 2026 Conference: Conversational Confluences,
More information on the conference:
events.asc-cybernetics.org/2026/
Animaspace: Conversations with Robots as Existential and Ethical Inquiry.
Sunday, November 16, 2025 | 12:00 PM EDT
Angelina Kozhevnikova will share how her artistic practice constructs conversations between humans and robots through continuous co-regulation
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RSD14 Arcs of Impact - Cybernetics Program
Ecologies of Knowing: Design Cybernetics Day
October 12, 2025, online | Hosted by #NewMacy and ASC at Systemic Design Symposium (RSD14)
Program: asc-cybernetics.org/events/rds14/
RSD14 Arcs of Impact - Cybernetics Program
Configuring Incompossible Futures by Claudia Westermann, Chris Speed, Elisa Giaccardi, and Mike Phillips at 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Toronto/Eastern Time (GMT-4) on October 6, 2025.
Program: asc-cybernetics.org/events/rds14/
RSD14 Arcs of Impact - Cybernetics Program
A Conversation on Contrapractice by Dulmini Perera and Tony Fry at 6:00PM – 7:00 PM Toronto/Eastern Time (GMT-4) on October 5, 2025.
ASC Speaker Series Season 6#1: What is a Laboratory, that Cybernetics need escape it?
Sunday, September 21, 2025 | 12:00 PM EDT
Our 2025 ASC Speaker Series opens with a yearly tradition of touring recent activities of the #NewMacy Initiative.
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ASC Speakers Series:
Learning to Learn: More Than a Machine at The Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Join us in exploring Gordon Pask’s CASTE implementation.
Sunday, May 18, 2025 12:00 PM EDT
Free Registration: lnkd.in/dbSVHQgk
More information on the event: asc-cybernetics.org/initiatives/...
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
Join us for the ASC Speakers Series S#5: Fresh Eyes / New Voices
presents: Pluriversal Ecologies: Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and More-than-Human Design
A conversation on the role of human subjectivity in understanding more-than-human lifeworlds.
Sunday, Apr 13, 12:00 EDT
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Circular Currents: Feedback, Intelligence, Emergent Systems
Two-day virtual event with Charissa N. Terranova, Ken Rinaldo, and Joost Rekveld.
Saturday, April 26 - 10 AM EDT
Sunday, April 27, 10 AM EDT
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Reminder - Art, Cybernetics, and Education: Conversations with Roy Ascott
The Art, Media, and Cybernetics (AMC) Working Group at the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) is honored to host a conversation with Roy Ascott.
Date: March 23, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM EDT
Link: buff.ly/roMRE4n
This is a reminder for our upcoming event: Acting with the World: The Choreography of Agency
We invite you to join us for a conversation with Andrew Pickering and Paul Pangaro on Saturday, March 16, 2025, at 12:00 PM EDT.
👉 Register now: buff.ly/4gWeVFX
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
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).
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
We're excited to share that our Speaker Series event, recorded on January 19, is now available on YouTube! In this talk, Rodrigo Nunes explores the cybernetic themes in Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organisation (Verso, 2021).
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Rodrigo Nunes explores cybernetic themes from Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal and how old debates on political organisation connect to cybernetics. puc-rio-br.academia.edu/RodrigoNunes
ASC Series: Cybernetics and Political Organisation
Jan 19 | 9:00 PST, 12:00 EST, 19:00 CEST
REGISTRATION us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...