3
Shared Docs
3
Same-Page
3 / 3
Mentions
son, Margaret Mead, and Heinz von Foerster,a remarked Brockman. In April of that year, a group that included von Foerster, Bateson, Zen philosopher Alan Watts, and dolphin researcher John Lilly convened the legendary AUM (ficeAmerican University of Mastersa) Conference in Big Sur to study G. Spencer Browne
ed that ficeLife is the theatre of one chance.fi His life and work have been greatly informed by this idea. In 1964, he met the artist and filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who was running the Film-makersaTM Cinematheque for underground cinema. Brockman was already working with underground film- makers, and video artis
ing about these issues at the time was on the radar screen of the 2"4 order Cybernetics crowd, including Heinz von Foerster as well as John Lilly and Alan Watts, who were the co-organizers of something called "The AUM Conference," shorthand for “The American University of Masters”, which took place in Big Sur
ltimedia productions called the New Cinema | (also known as the Expanded Cinema Festival), under the auspices of avant-garde filmmaker and impresario Jonas Mekas. They included visual artists Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Robert Whitman; kinetic artists Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik;
ing about these issues at the time was on the radar screen of the 2"4 order Cybernetics crowd, including Heinz von Foerster as well as John Lilly and Alan Watts, who were the co-organizers of something called "The AUM Conference," shorthand for “The American University of Masters”, which took place in Big Sur
ltimedia productions called the New Cinema | (also known as the Expanded Cinema Festival), under the auspices of avant-garde filmmaker and impresario Jonas Mekas. They included visual artists Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Robert Whitman; kinetic artists Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik;
Entities connected to both Alan Watts and Jonas Mekas

Alan Dershowitz
PERSON
Gregory Bateson
PERSON
Martha Stewart
PERSON
John Brockman
PERSONBateson
PERSON
Margaret Mead
PERSON
Stewart Brand
PERSONWarren McCulloch
PERSON
Claes Oldenburg
PERSON
Robert Whitman
PERSON
Richard Feynman
PERSON
Julie K. Brown
PERSON
Marc Rich
PERSON
Andy Warhol
PERSON
Marshall McLuhan
PERSON
John Cage
PERSON
Hans Ulrich Obrist
PERSON
Woody Allen
PERSON
Baltimore
LOCATION
Heinz von Foerster
PERSON