Herbert Brün Society

Pre-PWE Folder 1: New York ASUC
Notes for a  presentation (?) at American Society of University Composers First Annual Conference April 1-3, 1966 at NYU & Columbia. On the relation of digital and analog to composition.
Pre-PWE Folder 2: Computer Cantata
German language texts written by Herbert Brün. “Computer Cantata” is the title of a composition by Lejaren [...]

Pre-PWE Folder 56: Über Musik… …und zum Computer
Writings in German and a cartoon (by one of the Brün children) for a song about nature. Approx. 25 pages.
Pre-PWE Folder 57: Elektronische Reihe
German language writing by Herbert Brün. Approx. 10 pages.
Pre-PWE Folder 58: Musik und Information
Large German manuscript by Herbert Brün, organized into 8 chapters. Handwritten and [...]

Education Folder 1: 1987 Cyber Conference – Urbana 1987
Programs from the 1987 Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics: Creative Cybernetics: Our Utopianists’ Audacious Constructions, Dec 2-5, 1987 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Plus one copy of the program from the 1986 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics: Conversations in Cybernetics, [...]

HBSoc Folder 1: Graphics Symposium
Materials compiled by Susan Parenti for the September 18, 2004 symposium at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn.
HBSoc Folder 2: Graphics Catalogue Files
Old (and probably out of date) spreadsheets that list all of Herbert Brün’s graphics.
HBSoc Folder 3: Graphics exhibit at Music School
Materials compiled by Susan Parenti in 2007 for [...]

Contains a “Advanced Pages” of report on “Seminar on Interpersonal Relational Networks” Cuernavaca, July, 1971 – CIDOC – by Rodney Clough 9/20/71
Two things are striking about this text.
One: on page 17 – 19 the discussants get into the question of when to use the word “necessity” and at some point Brün asks (roughly) when is [...]

Pre-PWE Folder 70 contains responses to a 5 page long assignment describing how to write “Unfortunately True” statements. The course was apparently offered through the BCL, as Psych 493 (and likely cross-listed) under the title “Seminar on Cognitive Studies”. Responses from 45 students were received, several dated Feb. 24, 1971.

Illich, Ivan. 1971. The Breakdown of Schools. Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (CIDOC) 1016. Apdo. 479. Cuernavaca, Mexico.
The contents of this cuaderno are almost exactly the same as those of Deschooling Society, published by Illich in 1970 & 1971 (New York: Harper & Row). The table of contents is reproduced below to show the overlap. Reproduced [...]

This is the document that was published by the Centro Intercultural de Documentacion following the 6 weeks of discussions between Herbert Brün, Iván Illich, Heinz Von Foerster, Humberto Maturana, and Gordon Pask.
Download Heinz Von Foerster’s Introduction to Cuaderno 1014.
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The other elements of [...]

This folder contains material from all 1968 1969 and 1970 when the Heuristic course was offered throught the Chemistry Department. Yes, the syllabus for the Spring 1970 Heuristics show a course listing of Chem 199 for undergraduates, and Chem 490 for graduate students (see below). Pre-PWE Folder 53. There is no course roster for the [...]

A Note on the Causes of Campus Disorders
by
Heinz Von Foerster
University of Illinois
Learning is understood as the sum total of the processes by  which knowledge is acquired. In times of socio-cultural continuity “knowledge” is treated as a commodity which can be passed on from man-to-man or from generation-to-generation, and in such times “learning” is then thought [...]