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Introduction

The following text explores the relation between cybernetics, homeostasis, systems theory and art.

The contemporary fusion of art and science leads us to observe and interpret the variety of sensing systems which operate in micro and macro spheres in our environment. The artists become an explorer of multiple worlds and their sciences, fascinated by their function and relation with each other. We feel the urge to analyze those universes, search their parallel characteristics and behavior in order apply their functions to new creations. Human feels the desire to create artificial life forms from since the ancient times of alchemy. We can see the continuation the process nowadays in sciences like Systems biology or creating artificial neural networks. Cybernetic art creates artificial systems which interact with the natural environment, learn from it and develop themselves with collected and processed data.

The aim is to discover the new possibilities and relations between art, digital world and natural systems. The thesis is an analysis of analogous characteristics of continuously discovered new artificial and natural structures, questioning how to create new cybernetic systems which can learn and adapt to the environment and integrate into the natural environment. The urge of designing new forms of artificial systems is not justified just by an artistic approach, but it is also an emergency to make a progress in evolution and expand our understanding of complex systems, process of homeostasis in order to integrate human society in the natural habitat in a symbiotic way and not as an invasive and devastating dominant specie.

Body

-Explanation of cybernetics, connection with art in history, contemporary use of systems biology and cybernetics in art

-examples of cybernetic systems from the nature, networks, neural networks, systems, copying from the nature, human brain, society -examples of homeostasis and systems theory in nature and digital world