Epstein Secrets

his since 1965, when the composer John Cage reached across the table at dinner and handed me CYBERNETICS, saying "this is for you". I never did meet Wiener who had recently died, but also in 1965 his colleagues A.K. Soloman and Walter Rosenblith called ne at Film-Makers' Cinematheque to ask if I would

meeting to discuss how they were exploring cybernetic ideas. None of the people from the MIT-Harvard group (that also included Harold Edgerton and Anthony Oettinger) were called computer scientists because, at that time, there was only one computer at MIT. And I got to see it. Fifty-one years later, here I am, w

his since 1965, when the composer John Cage reached across the table at dinner and handed me CYBERNETICS, saying "this is for you". I never did meet Wiener who had recently died, but also in 1965 his colleagues A.K. Soloman and Walter Rosenblith called ne at Film-Makers' Cinematheque to ask if I would b

meeting to discuss how they were exploring cybernetic ideas. None of the people from the MIT-Harvard group (that also included Harold Edgerton and Anthony Oettinger) were called computer scientists because, at that time, there was only one computer at MIT. And I got to see it. Fifty-one years later, here I am, w

ed up on it and it was big news. This resulted in an invitation to me to join Solomon and Rosenblith in co-organizing a meeting in Cambridge between Wiener's closest colleagues at Harvard-MIT and the NY avant-garde artists interested in and inspired by his work. The occasion marked the first anniversar

of the Biophysics Department at Harvard and Walter Rosenblith, sensory communications researcher at MIT. Along with Harold "Doc" Edgerton at MIT and Anthony Oettinger of Harvard, they had been reading about "The Expanded Cinema Festival" I was producing at the Cinematheque, where the artists were reading Norbert