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Friday, June 5
 

14:00 EDT

Welcome to CASK 2026 and Tap Room Social Meet and Greet (also recordings of previous)
Friday June 5, 2026 14:00 - 14:15 EDT
This is the opening social event. It follows on from several weeks of Friday Tap Room Conversations.

These recordings are to be kept for the group who have signed up and are not for wider audiences.

NB. Zoom link to log in to the day's session is visible when (i) logged-in with your registered CASK 2026 account email, and (ii) when made available by the organiser.

Recordings from the previous Tap Room Friday Conversations

CASK 2026 Zoom Tap Room and Cafe 2026-05-22

CASK 2026 Zoom Tap Room and Cafe 2026-05-08

CASK 2026 Zoom Tap Room and Cafe 2026-04-24

CASK 2026 Zoom Tap Room and Cafe 2026-04-10




Sponsors
avatar for Luke Friendshuh

Luke Friendshuh

Founder - Intellectual explorer, System Modeling Institute
Goals of InstituteUse computer models to understand and improve systems.Find broad system improvement applications.Study large broad questions – questions that current traditional science doesn’t support.Create a place for intellectual explorers that do not get supported by the... Read More →
avatar for Peter Tuddenham

Peter Tuddenham

CoExplorer, College of Exploration USA, CoExploration Limited UK

avatar for Robert Young

Robert Young

Founder - Systems researcher, Systems Community Alliance {SCA}
Systems Community Alliance {SCA}: A collaborative network, with the Systems concept, at its core. Alliance at the level of infrastructure (not necessarily at the level of leadership). A long term plan. A (neutral) organisation. A network of Knowledge custodians in the commun... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 14:00 - 14:15 EDT
Zoom

14:15 EDT

CASK 2026 Forum
Friday June 5, 2026 14:15 - 14:30 EDT
Go to the CASK 2026 Forum for continuing asynchronous conversations. This link will take you there. You will be asked for the email you used for this event on Sched.com This is a one time check of your username. You will be sent a link in your email. On repeat visits you should be able to go there directly from the same link 

Once you have a Confabula account from the workflow above you can sign in at https://confabula.coexplorer.org/i/cask
Sponsors
avatar for Luke Friendshuh

Luke Friendshuh

Founder - Intellectual explorer, System Modeling Institute
Goals of InstituteUse computer models to understand and improve systems.Find broad system improvement applications.Study large broad questions – questions that current traditional science doesn’t support.Create a place for intellectual explorers that do not get supported by the... Read More →
avatar for Peter Tuddenham

Peter Tuddenham

CoExplorer, College of Exploration USA, CoExploration Limited UK

avatar for Robert Young

Robert Young

Founder - Systems researcher, Systems Community Alliance {SCA}
Systems Community Alliance {SCA}: A collaborative network, with the Systems concept, at its core. Alliance at the level of infrastructure (not necessarily at the level of leadership). A long term plan. A (neutral) organisation. A network of Knowledge custodians in the commun... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 14:15 - 14:30 EDT
Zoom

14:30 EDT

Introduction And Overview of the Sessions over the next week
Friday June 5, 2026 14:30 - 14:45 EDT

Sponsors
avatar for Luke Friendshuh

Luke Friendshuh

Founder - Intellectual explorer, System Modeling Institute
Goals of InstituteUse computer models to understand and improve systems.Find broad system improvement applications.Study large broad questions – questions that current traditional science doesn’t support.Create a place for intellectual explorers that do not get supported by the... Read More →
avatar for Peter Tuddenham

Peter Tuddenham

CoExplorer, College of Exploration USA, CoExploration Limited UK

avatar for Robert Young

Robert Young

Founder - Systems researcher, Systems Community Alliance {SCA}
Systems Community Alliance {SCA}: A collaborative network, with the Systems concept, at its core. Alliance at the level of infrastructure (not necessarily at the level of leadership). A long term plan. A (neutral) organisation. A network of Knowledge custodians in the commun... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 14:30 - 14:45 EDT
Zoom

14:45 EDT

Welcome and Introduction to CASK 2026, and the Systems Community Alliance {SCA}
Friday June 5, 2026 14:45 - 15:00 EDT
The CASK Register, and the Systems Community Alliance {SCA}
Robert Young, CASK 2026 Event, 5th June 2026


A warm welcome to CASK – Custodians and Archivists of Systems Knowledge.
•CASK was conceived as an intersection space for all those interested in: Systems Knowledge.
•Thank all of you - the individuals and organisations that are nucleating around CASK.
•The Heroes who are already doing active Archiving work, or have done it, even before CASK.
•Yourselves – those of you who are here: the CASK Speakers, the Attendees and the Viewers
•The participants of the CASK Taprooms – four informal pre-meetings, held every two weeks running up to CASK2026.
•And the three early CASK Organisers and Sponsors who nurtured this initiative over the last four+ months:
•The Systems Community Alliance, with Rob Young
•The College of Exploration, Peter Tuddenham
•The System Modeling Institute, Luke Friendshuh
•Going forward, in the sense of a Community of Practice, we are hoping to co-create this initiative together.

This 10-minute presentation welcomes and introduces viewers to CASK 2026 and highlights the Systems Community Alliance's involvement in CASK.

The slides for this presentation have been uploaded to this session page (log-in required) :
CASK 2026 - CASK Introduction from the SCA - Robert Young - Slides 260605.pdf

Further information
• Contact:
Robert Young, [email protected]
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryoung9/


Speakers
avatar for Robert Young

Robert Young

Founder - Systems researcher, Systems Community Alliance {SCA}
Systems Community Alliance {SCA}: A collaborative network, with the Systems concept, at its core. Alliance at the level of infrastructure (not necessarily at the level of leadership). A long term plan. A (neutral) organisation. A network of Knowledge custodians in the commun... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 14:45 - 15:00 EDT

15:00 EDT

CASK 2026 Friday Reflection
Friday June 5, 2026 15:00 - 17:00 EDT

Friday June 5, 2026 15:00 - 17:00 EDT
Zoom
 
Saturday, June 6
 

14:00 EDT

The CASK Register, and the Systems Community Alliance {SCA}
Saturday June 6, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 EDT
The CASK Register, and the Systems Community Alliance {SCA}
Robert Young, CASK 2026 Event, 6th June 2026

1. Brief introduction to The CASK Register
2. Whistlestop Tour of the public CASK Register
3. Deeper Dive: The Archives Data Model
4. Quick Tour of SCA website

This presentation is mainly reporting on the progress of objective 1: The CASK Register, over the last 4 months of work.

The slides have been uploaded to this session page (log-in required) :
CASK 2026 - The CASK Register, and the SCA - Robert Young - Slides 260606.pdf

Further information
• Contact:
Robert Young, [email protected]
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryoung9/
• CASK Register of Cybernetic and Systems Archives :
https://systemscommunityalliance.net/reg/cask-register-of-cybernetic-and-systems-archives/
• Systems Community Alliance website :
https://systemscommunityalliance.net/
• CASK 2026 conference page:
https://cask2026.sched.com/


Sponsors
avatar for Robert Young

Robert Young

Founder - Systems researcher, Systems Community Alliance {SCA}
Systems Community Alliance {SCA}: A collaborative network, with the Systems concept, at its core. Alliance at the level of infrastructure (not necessarily at the level of leadership). A long term plan. A (neutral) organisation. A network of Knowledge custodians in the commun... Read More →
Saturday June 6, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 EDT
Zoom

14:45 EDT

Introduction to my Archives Journey and Archive Efforts of Cybernetics and Systems Organizations
Saturday June 6, 2026 14:45 - 15:30 EDT
Peter Tuddenham has been collecting, curating and cataloguing systems and cybernetics archives for the International Society of the Systems Sciences, the American Society for Cybernetics and the Cybernetics Society (UK)
Sponsors
avatar for Peter Tuddenham

Peter Tuddenham

CoExplorer, College of Exploration USA, CoExploration Limited UK

Saturday June 6, 2026 14:45 - 15:30 EDT
Zoom

15:30 EDT

Later in the Bar
Saturday June 6, 2026 15:30 - 17:00 EDT

Saturday June 6, 2026 15:30 - 17:00 EDT
Zoom
 
Wednesday, June 10
 

14:00 EDT

Becoming the Accidental Archivist of Systems Process Theory
Wednesday June 10, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 EDT

Sponsors
avatar for Luke Friendshuh

Luke Friendshuh

Founder - Intellectual explorer, System Modeling Institute
Goals of InstituteUse computer models to understand and improve systems.Find broad system improvement applications.Study large broad questions – questions that current traditional science doesn’t support.Create a place for intellectual explorers that do not get supported by the... Read More →
Wednesday June 10, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 EDT
Zoom

14:30 EDT

Becoming an Accidental Archivist of the Ross Ashby Archives
Wednesday June 10, 2026 14:30 - 14:45 EDT

Sponsors
avatar for Peter Tuddenham

Peter Tuddenham

CoExplorer, College of Exploration USA, CoExploration Limited UK

Wednesday June 10, 2026 14:30 - 14:45 EDT
Zoom

14:45 EDT

Systems and Cybernetics Archives Workshop - Practical Approaches
Wednesday June 10, 2026 14:45 - 15:00 EDT
From Cassette Tape, VHS Tape, and Printed Documents to Creating Digital Archives. Using Bookpedia and Pocket Pedia to sttore libraries.
Sponsors
avatar for Peter Tuddenham

Peter Tuddenham

CoExplorer, College of Exploration USA, CoExploration Limited UK

Wednesday June 10, 2026 14:45 - 15:00 EDT
Zoom

15:00 EDT

Cybernetics at the University of Illinois Conversation
Wednesday June 10, 2026 15:00 - 15:45 EDT

Speakers
avatar for Bethany Anderson

Bethany Anderson

Natural and Applied Sciences Archivist, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bethany G. Anderson is the Natural and Applied Sciences Archivist and Associate Professor in the University Archives at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is also a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Illinois where she is focusing on the history... Read More →
Wednesday June 10, 2026 15:00 - 15:45 EDT
Zoom

16:00 EDT

Cybernetic Bookshelf: An Exploration
Wednesday June 10, 2026 16:00 - 16:30 EDT
Abstract: Cybernetic Bookshelf is a collection of ebook I have been acquiring since 2020. Initially, it was collected as learning resource for a Masters level course I teach at the Australian National University. The Bookshelf has now grown to over 700 titles, span over 70 plus years. While the initial motivation was purely pedagogical, it has now become a research project - an experiment in human-machine collaboration. More importantly, the “epistemic affordance” of a “collection” seems to generate meaning (with the help of human and machine) that transcends individual items within the collection. This is perhaps another instance of what may be termed "emergent phenomena”.

Speakers
PW

Paul Wong

School of Cybernetics, Australian National University

Wednesday June 10, 2026 16:00 - 16:30 EDT
Zoom

16:30 EDT

Later in the Bar
Wednesday June 10, 2026 16:30 - 17:30 EDT

Wednesday June 10, 2026 16:30 - 17:30 EDT
Zoom
 
Thursday, June 11
 

14:00 EDT

Introduction to AI. LLM and Archives
Thursday June 11, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 EDT
Introduction to AI, LLM and Archives
Held during International Archives Week, whose theme — Archives for Justice: Rights, Memory and Futures — asks what the records we keep are for in an age of artificial intelligence, this talk offers a working answer from inside the systems and cybernetics community.
It surveys what AI and large language models are actually doing in archives today — transcription, description, retrieval — and the genuine fight now underway over whether collections may be used to train models at all. But it judges that landscape with our own instruments. Drawing a line from Frank Burns's 1981 ethics of influence to Mick Ashby's Ethical Regulator Theorem, it treats every archive and its AI as a regulator of memory: six requisites make such a system effective, but only three more — transparency, integrity, and ethics — make it good, and those three must be deliberately specified, or lost by default.
Along the way it shows working examples, including knowledge graphs and teaching modules built to keep every claim traceable to its source. It closes on the shift from merely keeping heritage to activating it, and on what a distributed community of custodians might build together next.

Sources referenced
  • International Council on Archives — International Archives Week 2026, “Archives for Justice: Rights, Memory & Futures” (8–12 June 2026). https://ica.org
  • Mick Ashby — The Ethical Regulator Theorem and the Law of Inevitable Ethical Inadequacy (ISSS 2017; published 2020). https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings61st/article/view/3075
  • Roger Conant & W. Ross Ashby — “Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system” (1970). https://www.theisticscience.com/papers/tree/BioRegulation/Conant-IJSS1970.pdf
  • Frank Burns — “An Ethical Paradigm for Subtle Influence” (1981) — your own archive; the nine-point operating paradigm. https://coexploration.org/metasystems
  • Robert Rosen — Anticipatory Systems (1985) and Life Itself (1991); the modelling relation. https://model.coexplorer.org
  • US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) — AI use-case inventory. archives.gov/ai
  • Library of Congress with GBH — American Archive of Public Broadcasting, FixIt+ transcript-correction platform. https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/04/aapb-sorenson-interview/
  • Society of American Archivists — knowledge-graph-augmented generative AI for cultural heritage (February 2026). https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Gnanasekaran_Marciano_paper.pdf
  • Library of Congress & Joshua Sternfeld — “Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” (February 2026). https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/04/content-authenticity-and-provenance-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-a-call-to-action-for-the-libraries-archives-and-museums-community/
  • Archives and Records Association (UK) — AI Preparedness Guidelines for Archivists. https://www.archives.org.uk/ai-preparedness-guidelines-for-archivists
  • University of Virginia Archival AI Protocol — Leo S. Lo (2025); “no access without control.” https://library.virginia.edu/news/2026/protecting-what-remains-introducing-uva-archival-ai-protocol
  • Authors Alliance — “AI & Access to Knowledge” series; “Library and Archives 101: AI and the False Promise of Control” (2026). https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/03/16/library-and-archives-101-ai-and-the-false-promise-of-control/
  • LOCKSS — Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (Stanford). https://www.lockss.org/
  • Louis Rosenberg / Unanimous AI — Conversational Swarm Intelligence; Thinkscape. https://unanimous.ai/videos/


Sponsors
avatar for Peter Tuddenham

Peter Tuddenham

CoExplorer, College of Exploration USA, CoExploration Limited UK

Thursday June 11, 2026 14:00 - 14:30 EDT
Zoom

14:30 EDT

Seeing Systems On the Edge. Challenges with AI
Thursday June 11, 2026 14:30 - 15:30 EDT

Speakers
avatar for Lynn Rasmussen

Lynn Rasmussen

Author, "Seeing" Systems, Maui Institute
Thursday June 11, 2026 14:30 - 15:30 EDT
Zoom

15:30 EDT

Complex Systems Archives - View from Poland
Thursday June 11, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EDT

Speakers
CM

Czeslaw Mesjasz

Associate Professor (Profesor Uczelni), emeritus, paret-time, Krakow University of Economics

Thursday June 11, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EDT
 
Saturday, June 13
 

08:00 EDT

Consilience Network
Saturday June 13, 2026 08:00 - 09:00 EDT
"Consilience Network" Proposal & Position Paper (CASK2026) (YouTube, 19 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDvLh2-0AE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDvLh2-0AE&t=355s

(See links in the YouTube video description...)

Including: the link, to the (online) Proposal & Position Paper: "Consilience Network": 
https://evolutionary-culturology.blogspot.com/2026/05/consilience-among-consilience-projects.html 



Speakers
avatar for Joe T. Velikovsky

Joe T. Velikovsky

Founder, Ev Cult (Now: Retired), https://evolutionary-culturology.blogspot.com/
Velikovsky of Newcastle (PhD) is an Evolutionary Culturologist (meta-meta-scientist), and also million-selling author, screenwriter, filmmaker, game designer, and AI systems scientist. His work spans: Creativity Science, Systems Science, screenwriting, ethics, artificial intelligence, and the all-domain meta-meta-science of Evolutionary Culturolo... Read More →

Saturday June 13, 2026 08:00 - 09:00 EDT
Zoom

14:00 EDT

Systems and Cybernetics Archives - Landscape Assessment and Analysis
Saturday June 13, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 EDT

The intellectual heritage of cybernetics and systems theory — published books, serials, grey literature,
private papers, audiovisual recordings, software, born-digital networked resources, and early
networked communications — is distributed across personal libraries, institutional archives, and
ad hoc repositories with no shared catalog, no common schema, and no mutual visibility. The
typical generation of the members of the Archives Working Group (WG) for the American Society
for Cybernetics (ASC) holds substantial print collections; the prior generation’s holdings are
increasingly at risk as their custodians age. Grey literature (conference proceedings, newsletters,
technical reports), audiovisual material (lectures, conference recordings, interviews), historical software
(simulation models, early AI programs), and born-digital resources (early websites, mailing
list archives) are especially vulnerable —much of it has no canonical bibliographic record anywhere.
The charter of the WG is to address this situation by identifying and facilitating archiving activities
which are both coherent and feasible, addressing critical needs while suggesting potential solutions.
Those in need of support include institutional curators and collection managers, individual owners
of holdings, and the cybernetics and systems research community at large. Their needs include
canonical bibliographic catalog normalization and creation, facilitation of ways to identify and
share information about holdings (including condition, owner, bibliographic identity, and modality
(text, video, audio)), identification of potential donation opportunities, and databse endpoints and
downloading options.
Current challengines include extensive grey literature, much without canonical identity; multiple
distinct institutional efforts; many scattered personal holdings; an aging constituency; and current
efforts being mainly heroic individuals (e.g. this WG, Tuddenham, Wong, Young, Anderson, etc.).
However, there are also substantial potential assets, including community knowledge and engagement,
and especially a burgeoning technical landscape: the vast productivity gains promised by AI
tooling is very real. It is thus likely that many pieces of a solution may be available.
We recognize the challenges the community faces in understanding how best to approach this set
of problems. As volunteer scholars scattered across the globe, working with global institutions
and individuals, the issues are immense: what’s a vision of what’s possible? what’s reasonable to
presume given available resources? what kind of teaming structure is legitimately feasible? what
new technologies can bootstrap and leapfrog us forward?

https://vimeo.com/1196451452/547491c74e?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Speakers
CJ

Cliff Joslyn

Cybernetician at Large | Visiting Professor of Systems Science, Binghampton University (SUNY), Binghampton University

Saturday June 13, 2026 14:00 - 15:00 EDT
Zoom

15:00 EDT

Options for names: [ ] Partisan Cybernetics [ ] Underground Cybernetics [ ] Law of the Jungle Cybernetics [ ] Street Cybernetics [ ] Jungle Cybernetics
Saturday June 13, 2026 15:00 - 15:30 EDT

For the past year I have been learning Cybernetics & Systems to understand and articulate the previous 16 years, and to equip myself for re-entry into that world of construction management with the appropriate training.

This presentation will be a guided tour through Dante's Black Box inferno, real systems and cybernetic pathologies, as I experienced them and how I understood and arriculated them at the time

At the beginning I will invite everyone to take notes along the journey,  of their own cybernetic interpretation of the pathology.  

The purpose will be to show what problems in the world I was trying to solve but only partially succeeding at, due to a lack of cybernetic understanding...and therefore,  how others like me could be guided through the archives after taking the red pill of cybernetics 

Options for names:
[ ] Partisan Cybernetics
[ ] Underground Cybernetics
[ ] Law of the Jungle Cybernetics
[ ] Street Cybernetics
[ ] Jungle Cybernetics
Or we just let chips fall where may and call it Guerilla Cybernetics. When you hear the stories you may find that name most fitting. But you know these folks better than me, so I will trust to your judgment
Speakers
Saturday June 13, 2026 15:00 - 15:30 EDT

15:30 EDT

Collating the Results from CASK 2026
Saturday June 13, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EDT

Saturday June 13, 2026 15:30 - 16:00 EDT
Zoom
 
Sunday, June 14
 

13:00 EDT

Quilting: A Batesonian Imagination
Sunday June 14, 2026 13:00 - 14:00 EDT
Quilting: A Batesonian Imagination
Sunday June 14, 2026 13:00 - 14:00 EDT
Zoom
 
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