reading 1

cybernetics and systems science is the study of the system, no matter in what kind of world, we always can find different kinds of organizations. One overlap another, and they interact each other in order to create a certain type of system.

The system approaches almost all types of principles. However when in practices focus on the "more complex, adaptive, self-regulating system" which can be called "cybernetic".

system theory focus on structure of system and their models, cybernetics has focused more on how system function, how they control their action.

Cybernetic models are structures of mathematically related goal-directed systems, often combined with other elements such as logical operators and information storage media. 

basic premises of cybernetics, the behavior of living things and machines could be discussed in the same terms. the "feedback" was a critical control technique. 

a new form called cyborg art/ robotic art has evolved, it's concerned with simulated behavior and the building of virtual machines as artworks. 

Burnham foresaw that science and art come together create a new form, the prediction for future sculpture, combining with the cybernetic ideas.

The use of "black box" theory, the general behavior up to describe and grasp the behavior of the system, the forecast system, without the need for a large number of the details relating to the internal structure and interactions of complex systems, which is particularly useful in the study of complex economic and social systems. 

The basic concepts of the use of this information, a variety of movement patterns of the system aside from belief circulation on the regulation of the research system and the law. Sophisticated mathematical and physical methods to "load" the study of complex systems. 

The use of the feedback principle to achieve control of the system.

Basically the readings introduce the concept of cybernetics and system science. My understanding of cybernetic is the study of the process with already known input information and feedback. How the system work when we already know the input and feedback, the input and the feedback are the key to control the system.  The effective way to understand system is how an sculpture/object turns to having behaviors, then we need a outside factors to control it. Burnham vividly describes how system science and art will be.