{"id":11,"date":"2008-08-31T20:37:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T20:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/?p=11"},"modified":"2008-09-01T09:28:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T09:28:20","slug":"cybernetic-serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/2008\/08\/cybernetic-serendipity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybernetic Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term cybernetics was first used by Norbert Wiener around 1948. In 1948 his book \u00abCybernetics\u00bb was subtitled \u00abcommunication and control in animal and machine.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>A cybernetic device responds to stimulus from outside and in turn affects external environment<\/p>\n<p>Serendipity \u2013 was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. Walpole used the term serendipity to describe the faculty of making happy chance discoveries<\/p>\n<p>1965 was also the year when plans were laid for a show that later came to be called \u00abCybernetic Serendipity,\u00bb and presented at the ICA in London in 1968. It was the first exhibition to attempt to demonstrate all aspects of computer-aided creative activity: art, music, poetry, dance, sculpture, animation.<\/p>\n<p>link: http:\/\/www.olats.org\/schoffer\/eindex.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term cybernetics was first used by Norbert Wiener around 1948. In 1948 his book \u00abCybernetics\u00bb was subtitled \u00abcommunication and control in animal and machine.\u00bb A cybernetic device responds to stimulus from outside and in turn affects external environment Serendipity \u2013 was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. Walpole used the term serendipity to describe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cybernetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}