Conference Program
Sunday, August 2, 2026
| Time | Event | Type | Proponent | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00 – 18:00 | Foundations of Cybernetics | Workshop | Larry Richards | Anexo do Museu |
Monday, August 3, 2026
| Time | Event | Type | Proponent | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3 – Aug 7 | ASC 2026 Participant Podcast 5 days | Workshop | Abbie Van Meter | – |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Event accreditation | Opening Ceremony | – | Casa da Ópera |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Opening Ceremony | Opening Ceremony | – | Casa da Ópera |
| Aug 3 – Aug 4 | Track 2: Pluriversal More-than-Human Design 2 days | Track | Annan Zuo (University of Oxford), Claudia Westermann (Curtin University), Frederick Steier (University of South Florida) | Anexo do Museu |
| Aug 3 – Aug 4 | Track 7: Epistemology After the Algorithm: A Second-Order Cybernetic Intervention 2 days | Track | Arantzazu Saratxaga (Aix Marseille Université) | IAF |
| Aug 3 – Aug 4 | Track 6: Competing Cartographies: Mapping as Practice of Recursive Becoming 2 days | Track | Art, Media, Cybernetics Working Group, American Society for Cybernetics | Casa Gonzaga |
| Aug 3 – Aug 4 | Track 4: Futuribles — Ἀκυβέρνητος (Akybérnētos): Drifting Ecologies-as-Cosmologies 2 days | Track | Clarissa Ribeiro (USP Brazil), Victoria Vesna (UCLA United States), Jill Scott (ZhdK Switzerland), Claudia Jacques (Technoetic Arts Journal, UK), Rewa Wright (QUT Australia), Tania Fraga (UnB Brazil), Rejane Spitz (PUC Rio Brazil) | Casa Gonzaga |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | 100 years of Stafford Beer | Exhibition | – | Casa Gonzaga |
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
| Time | Event | Type | Proponent | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3 – Aug 7 | ASC 2026 Participant Podcast 5 days | Workshop | Abbie Van Meter | – |
| Aug 3 – Aug 4 | Track 2: Pluriversal More-than-Human Design 2 days | Track | Annan Zuo (University of Oxford), Claudia Westermann (Curtin University), Frederick Steier (University of South Florida) | Anexo do Museu |
| Aug 3 – Aug 4 | Track 7: Epistemology After the Algorithm: A Second-Order Cybernetic Intervention 2 days | Track | Arantzazu Saratxaga (Aix Marseille Université) | IAF |
| Aug 3 – Aug 4 | Track 6: Competing Cartographies: Mapping as Practice of Recursive Becoming 2 days | Track | Art, Media, Cybernetics Working Group, American Society for Cybernetics | Casa Gonzaga |
| Aug 3 – Aug 4 | Track 4: Futuribles — Ἀκυβέρνητος (Akybérnētos): Drifting Ecologies-as-Cosmologies 2 days | Track | Clarissa Ribeiro (USP Brazil), Victoria Vesna (UCLA United States), Jill Scott (ZhdK Switzerland), Claudia Jacques (Technoetic Arts Journal, UK), Rewa Wright (QUT Australia), Tania Fraga (UnB Brazil), Rejane Spitz (PUC Rio Brazil) | Casa Gonzaga |
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
| Time | Event | Type | Proponent | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3 – Aug 7 | ASC 2026 Participant Podcast 5 days | Workshop | Abbie Van Meter | – |
| Aug 5 – Aug 6 | Track 1: Viable Confluences — 100 Years of Stafford Beer in Conversation with Latin America 2 days | Track | Allenna Leonard, Jon Walker, Angela Espinosa, Pedro Pablo Cardoso, Camilo Osejo, Ayham Fattoum, Stephen Harwood, Juliana Mariano Alves | Grande Hotel de Ouro Preto |
| Aug 5 – Aug 6 | Track 8: Cyber-Systemic Confluences — Gathering the Dispersed, Refocusing the Distracted 2 days | Track | José dos Santos Cabral Filho, Sandro Luis Schlindwein, Mateus van Stralen | Anexo do Museu |
| 14:00 – 18:00 | Track 5: Entangled Confluences — Designing Relational Futures through Indigenous Wisdom, Quantum Theory, and AI Reflexivity | Track | R. Eva King and Frederick Steier (Fielding Graduate University) | IAF |
| Aug 5 – Aug 6 | Track 3: Hybrid Matters 2 days | Track | Graziele Lautenschlaeger (USTP Austria), Merve Keskin (University of Salzburg), Thibaud Chassin (University of Graz) | Casa Gonzaga |
Thursday, August 6, 2026
| Time | Event | Type | Proponent | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3 – Aug 7 | ASC 2026 Participant Podcast 5 days | Workshop | Abbie Van Meter | – |
| Aug 5 – Aug 6 | Track 1: Viable Confluences — 100 Years of Stafford Beer in Conversation with Latin America 2 days | Track | Allenna Leonard, Jon Walker, Angela Espinosa, Pedro Pablo Cardoso, Camilo Osejo, Ayham Fattoum, Stephen Harwood, Juliana Mariano Alves | Grande Hotel de Ouro Preto |
| Aug 5 – Aug 6 | Track 8: Cyber-Systemic Confluences — Gathering the Dispersed, Refocusing the Distracted 2 days | Track | José dos Santos Cabral Filho, Sandro Luis Schlindwein, Mateus van Stralen | Anexo do Museu |
| Aug 5 – Aug 6 | Track 3: Hybrid Matters 2 days | Track | Graziele Lautenschlaeger (USTP Austria), Merve Keskin (University of Salzburg), Thibaud Chassin (University of Graz) | Casa Gonzaga |
| 09:00 – 10:50 | #NewMacy Café: Conversations on Four Potentially Controversial Issues in Modern Cybernetics | Workshop | Larry Richards | Grande Hotel de Ouro Preto |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Brain: An Interactive Table Read | Workshop | Justin Hunt | Anexo do Museu |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Doing Conversational Confluence – in Practice | Workshop | Johannes Herwig-Lempp | IFAC |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Communication, Co-Creation, Coordination: Conversations Beyond Words | Workshop | Abbie VanMeter & Eve C. Pinsker | Casa Gonzaga |
| 14:00 – 15:50 | The Emotional Ground of Living Together: An Inquiry into the Interweaving of Languaging and Emotioning | Workshop | Káritas de Toledo Ribas | – |
| 15:10 – 18:00 | Meta-reflexão e Meta-design: uma prática sistêmica recursiva | Workshop | Ignacio Muñoz Cristi | – |
Friday, August 7, 2026
| Time | Event | Type | Proponent | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3 – Aug 7 | ASC 2026 Participant Podcast 5 days | Workshop | Abbie Van Meter | – |
| 09:00 – 11:30 | ASC World Café | Plenary | Flávio Mesquita da Silva | Grande Hotel de Ouro Preto |