Key word "peter schjeldahl"

About painting, cybernetics, and shared purpose, this article is partly a story, in part a memoir, an adventure in cybernetics, happening 30 years ago, in snow, in the small Swiss city of St. Gallen. A conference of the American Society for Cybernetics meets there. It is 1987. The author, a painter, searching for a new understanding of painting, encounters a convergence of the art of painting and the art of cybernetics through principles of second-order cybernetics in Pask, von Foerster and Maturana, dissolved in Kathleen Forsythe’s poetry. The form, as well as the content of this article, reflects cybernetics.

Key words: blue, conversation theory, cybernetics, gordon pask, harvey horowitz, journey to the east, kathleen forsythe, lavender, orange, painting, parable of the lost drachma, paul cezanne, penny colville, peter schjeldahl, pink, robert schoenholtz, salvador dali