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> From: suzanneanker <s.anker@verizon.net>
> Date: November 18, 2004 11:23:29 AM EST
> To: Pablo Helguera <PHelguera@guggenheim.org>
> Subject: Art, Circuitry, and Ecology
>
> Art, Circuitry, and Ecology
> Honoring Gregory Bateson
>
> A companion event to the Multiple Versions of the World conference at
> the University
> of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Hall of Science,
> http://www.batesonconference.org
>
> Saturday, November 20th, 2004, 10am-6pm, at the CUNY Graduate Center
> 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
>
> Gregory Bateson, author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind, was a seminal
> thinker of the twentieth century. Working across disciplines,
> including biology, psychology, anthropology, and ecology, he
> participated in the conferences that spawned the science of
> communications and control known as cybernetics. In his writings,
> Bateson used cybernetic thinking to address a range of topics
> including alcoholism, family dynamics, schizophrenia, technology,
> peacemaking, learning, and art. As a part of the bi-coastal Bateson
> centennial conference, we will explore the interplay between Bateson's
> ideas about art and the realities of artmaking today. We will
> re-examine ideas such as "relational aesthetics", $B!H(Benvironment$B!I(B and
> "ecology$B!I(B, by way of Bateson$B!G(Bs emphasis on context, relationship,
> pattern and communication. Gregory Bateson thought art could be a
> shortcut to ecological sanity. The New York City chapter of this
> Bateson centennial conference will explore this notion of art in
> depth. We will hear from artists whose work has been directly
> influenced by Bateson, and from artists whose work has not been
> explicitly influenced by Bateson, but whose engagement with whole
> systems, circuitry, communication, organization and ecology, overlaps
> Bateson's work.
>
> Including:
>
> $B!|(B Presentations by Betty Beaumont, Frank Gillette, Paul Ryan and
> Charles Stein
> $B!|(B Virtual presentations by Mary Catherine Bateson, Carol Wilder and
> Peter Harries-Jones*
> $B!|(B Displays by Rainer Ganahl, Jennifer Dalton, Anne-Katrin Spiess, and
> FICTIVE collective
> $B!|(B Workshops with The Center for Tactical Magic, Nsumi collective,
> Andrew Lynn, and others
> $B!|(B Panel Discussion, Multiplicity, Aesthesis and the Social
>
>
> Saturday, November 20th, 10am-6pm $25; $10 students/low-income
> artists. To secure advance tickets or receive a CUNY catalog contact:
> 212 817-8215, continuinged@gc.cuny.edu
>
>
>