Kate Doyle and Paul Pangaro
Over the past four years, #NewMacy has worked with navigating understandings of the complex challenges of systems in our societies. Concern about the iterative tendencies of the many pandemics we have experienced and are experiencing — and the violences they perform — has focused our projects and conversations, which attempt transdisciplinarity as well as diversity in generation and geography. Now, we bring an attention to possibilities for “not-violence” (Brun, 1986, Lombardi, 1996) in the present by languaging conversation in a “biology of love” (Maturana, 2008). Approaches include a practice of wayfinding as a companion (alternative?) to mapping; it is this particular way of navigating that we intend to present, engage, and invite at RSD13. In enacting wayfinding through languaging in the biology of love, we resonate the theme of River of Conversations by performing languaging as flow and dynamics simultaneous to the relational structures of our contemporary cultural lives.
Profiles
Kate Doyle’s work explores art practices and forms through the framework of cybernetics. An attention to the processes and poetics of creative reception serves as the foundation of her teaching-learning, which encourages new modes of conversation and interaction. With Paul Pangaro, she co-organizes #NewMacy, an initiative that spans geographies and generations and transcends disciplines to catalyze conversations in navigating the complex challenges of our time. With Damian Chapman and TJ McLeish, she runs The Reading Group, a think tank for embodied research, learning, and creative archiving. Trained in the visual arts and violin performance, Kate received her PhD in musicology from Case Western University in 2018. She has been an invited speaker or collaborator at the Chelsea College of Art of the University of the Arts London, the Dia Art Foundation, and the Library of Congress. Kate is currently Assistant Professor of Music in the Department of Arts, Culture & Media at Rutgers University-Newark and based in New York City.
Kate Doyle, Assistant Professor, Department of Arts, Culture & Media, Rutgers University-Newark. kate.c.doyle@rutgers.edu. Rutgers profile.
Paul Pangaro’s work explores the role of conversation in design, innovation, interactions, and organizations. His career spans startups and consulting, research and publishing, teaching and performance. With Kate Doyle he co-organizes #NewMacy, an initiative that spans geographies, generations, and disciplines to catalyze conversations that confront the complex challenges of our time. He is current President of the American Society for Cybernetics and Visiting Scholar in the School of Architecture and School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, after serving there as Professor of Practice in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute for 3.5 years. His product designs, teaching, writing, and research are grounded in the cybernetic theory and methods of Conversation Theory by Gordon Pask. His presentations, publications, and videos can be found online at pangaro.com.
Paul Pangaro, President, American Society for Cybernetics; Visiting Scholar, School of Architecture and School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University. ppangaro@cmu.edu. Paul’s website.