{"id":400,"date":"2025-12-21T12:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/?page_id=400"},"modified":"2026-06-28T20:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:06:55","slug":"conference-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/conference-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\n
\n

\n Sunday, August 2, 2026 <\/h2>\n\n \n \n \n \n \n
Time<\/th>\n Event<\/th>\n Type<\/th>\n Proponent<\/th>\n Location<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
15:00 \u2013 18:00<\/td>\n \n Foundations of Cybernetics <\/td>\n \n Workshop<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Larry Richards<\/td>\n Anexo do Museu<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/section>\n
\n

\n Monday, August 3, 2026 <\/h2>\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
Time<\/th>\n Event<\/th>\n Type<\/th>\n Proponent<\/th>\n Location<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 7<\/td>\n \n ASC 2026 Participant Podcast 5 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Workshop<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Abbie Van Meter<\/td>\n \u2013<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
09:00 \u2013 10:00<\/td>\n \n Event accreditation <\/td>\n \n Opening Ceremony<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \u2013<\/td>\n Casa da \u00d3pera<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
10:00 \u2013 11:00<\/td>\n \n Opening Ceremony <\/td>\n \n Opening Ceremony<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \u2013<\/td>\n Casa da \u00d3pera<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 4<\/td>\n \n Track 2: Pluriversal More-than-Human Design<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Annan Zuo (University of Oxford), Claudia Westermann (Curtin University), Frederick Steier (University of South Florida)<\/td>\n Anexo do Museu<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 4<\/td>\n \n Track 7: Epistemology After the Algorithm: A Second-Order Cybernetic Intervention<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Arantzazu Saratxaga (Aix Marseille Universit\u00e9)<\/td>\n IAF<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 4<\/td>\n \n Track 6: Competing Cartographies: Mapping as Practice of Recursive Becoming<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Art, Media, Cybernetics Working Group, American Society for Cybernetics<\/td>\n Casa Gonzaga<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 4<\/td>\n \n Track 4: Futuribles \u2014 \u1f08\u03ba\u03c5\u03b2\u03ad\u03c1\u03bd\u03b7\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 (Akyb\u00e9rn\u0113tos): Drifting Ecologies-as-Cosmologies<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n 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)<\/td>\n Casa Gonzaga<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
19:00 \u2013 21:00<\/td>\n \n 100 years of Stafford Beer <\/td>\n \n Exhibition<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \u2013<\/td>\n Casa Gonzaga<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/section>\n
\n

\n Tuesday, August 4, 2026 <\/h2>\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
Time<\/th>\n Event<\/th>\n Type<\/th>\n Proponent<\/th>\n Location<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 7<\/td>\n \n ASC 2026 Participant Podcast 5 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Workshop<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Abbie Van Meter<\/td>\n \u2013<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 4<\/td>\n \n Track 2: Pluriversal More-than-Human Design<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Annan Zuo (University of Oxford), Claudia Westermann (Curtin University), Frederick Steier (University of South Florida)<\/td>\n Anexo do Museu<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 4<\/td>\n \n Track 7: Epistemology After the Algorithm: A Second-Order Cybernetic Intervention<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Arantzazu Saratxaga (Aix Marseille Universit\u00e9)<\/td>\n IAF<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 4<\/td>\n \n Track 6: Competing Cartographies: Mapping as Practice of Recursive Becoming<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Art, Media, Cybernetics Working Group, American Society for Cybernetics<\/td>\n Casa Gonzaga<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 4<\/td>\n \n Track 4: Futuribles \u2014 \u1f08\u03ba\u03c5\u03b2\u03ad\u03c1\u03bd\u03b7\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 (Akyb\u00e9rn\u0113tos): Drifting Ecologies-as-Cosmologies<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n 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)<\/td>\n Casa Gonzaga<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/section>\n
\n

\n Wednesday, August 5, 2026 <\/h2>\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
Time<\/th>\n Event<\/th>\n Type<\/th>\n Proponent<\/th>\n Location<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 7<\/td>\n \n ASC 2026 Participant Podcast 5 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Workshop<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Abbie Van Meter<\/td>\n \u2013<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 5 \u2013 Aug 6<\/td>\n \n Track 1: Viable Confluences \u2014 100 Years of Stafford Beer in Conversation with Latin America<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Allenna Leonard, Jon Walker, Angela Espinosa, Pedro Pablo Cardoso, Camilo Osejo, Ayham Fattoum, Stephen Harwood, Juliana Mariano Alves<\/td>\n Grande Hotel de Ouro Preto<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 5 \u2013 Aug 6<\/td>\n \n Track 8: Cyber-Systemic Confluences \u2014 Gathering the Dispersed, Refocusing the Distracted<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Jos\u00e9 dos Santos Cabral Filho, Sandro Luis Schlindwein, Mateus van Stralen<\/td>\n Anexo do Museu<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
14:00 \u2013 18:00<\/td>\n \n Track 5: Entangled Confluences \u2014 Designing Relational Futures through Indigenous Wisdom, Quantum Theory, and AI Reflexivity<\/a>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n R. Eva King and Frederick Steier (Fielding Graduate University)<\/td>\n IAF<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 5 \u2013 Aug 6<\/td>\n \n Track 3: Hybrid Matters<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Graziele Lautenschlaeger (USTP Austria), Merve Keskin (University of Salzburg), Thibaud Chassin (University of Graz)<\/td>\n Casa Gonzaga<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/section>\n
\n

\n Thursday, August 6, 2026 <\/h2>\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
Time<\/th>\n Event<\/th>\n Type<\/th>\n Proponent<\/th>\n Location<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 7<\/td>\n \n ASC 2026 Participant Podcast 5 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Workshop<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Abbie Van Meter<\/td>\n \u2013<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 5 \u2013 Aug 6<\/td>\n \n Track 1: Viable Confluences \u2014 100 Years of Stafford Beer in Conversation with Latin America<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Allenna Leonard, Jon Walker, Angela Espinosa, Pedro Pablo Cardoso, Camilo Osejo, Ayham Fattoum, Stephen Harwood, Juliana Mariano Alves<\/td>\n Grande Hotel de Ouro Preto<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 5 \u2013 Aug 6<\/td>\n \n Track 8: Cyber-Systemic Confluences \u2014 Gathering the Dispersed, Refocusing the Distracted<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Jos\u00e9 dos Santos Cabral Filho, Sandro Luis Schlindwein, Mateus van Stralen<\/td>\n Anexo do Museu<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aug 5 \u2013 Aug 6<\/td>\n \n Track 3: Hybrid Matters<\/a>\n 2 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Track<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Graziele Lautenschlaeger (USTP Austria), Merve Keskin (University of Salzburg), Thibaud Chassin (University of Graz)<\/td>\n Casa Gonzaga<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
09:00 \u2013 10:50<\/td>\n \n #NewMacy Caf\u00e9: Conversations on Four Potentially Controversial Issues in Modern Cybernetics <\/td>\n \n Workshop<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Larry Richards<\/td>\n Grande Hotel de Ouro Preto<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
11:00 \u2013 13:00<\/td>\n \n Brain: An Interactive Table Read <\/td>\n \n Workshop<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Justin Hunt<\/td>\n Anexo do Museu<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
11:00 \u2013 13:00<\/td>\n \n Doing Conversational Confluence \u2013 in Practice <\/td>\n \n Workshop<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Johannes Herwig-Lempp<\/td>\n IFAC<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
11:00 \u2013 13:00<\/td>\n \n Communication, Co-Creation, Coordination: Conversations Beyond Words<\/a>\n <\/td>\n \n Workshop<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Abbie VanMeter & Eve C. Pinsker<\/td>\n Casa Gonzaga<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
14:00 \u2013 15:50<\/td>\n \n The Emotional Ground of Living Together: An Inquiry into the Interweaving of Languaging and Emotioning <\/td>\n \n Workshop<\/span>\n <\/td>\n K\u00e1ritas de Toledo Ribas<\/td>\n \u2013<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
15:10 \u2013 18:00<\/td>\n \n Meta-reflex\u00e3o e Meta-design: uma pr\u00e1tica sist\u00eamica recursiva <\/td>\n \n Workshop<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Ignacio Mu\u00f1oz Cristi<\/td>\n \u2013<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/section>\n
\n

\n Friday, August 7, 2026 <\/h2>\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n
Time<\/th>\n Event<\/th>\n Type<\/th>\n Proponent<\/th>\n Location<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 7<\/td>\n \n ASC 2026 Participant Podcast 5 days<\/span>\n <\/td>\n \n Workshop<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Abbie Van Meter<\/td>\n \u2013<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
09:00 \u2013 11:30<\/td>\n \n ASC World Caf\u00e9 <\/td>\n \n Plenary<\/span>\n <\/td>\n Fl\u00e1vio Mesquita da Silva<\/td>\n Grande Hotel de Ouro Preto<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/section>\n <\/div>\n \n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":589,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-400","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}