Gordon Pask

Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask (28 June 1928 – 29 March 1996) was an English cybernetician and psychologist who made significant contributions to cybernetics, instructional psychology, experimental epistemology and educational technology.

Works

Books

• An Approach to Cybernetics, pref. Warren S. McCulloch, London: Hutchinson, 1961; 1968, 128 pp.
• Conversation, Cognition and Learning: A Cybernetic Theory and Methodology, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1975, 570 pp.
• The Cybernetics of Human Learning and Performance: A Guide to Theory and Research, London: Hutchinson, 1975, 347 pp.
• Conversation Theory: Application in Education and Epistemology, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1976, 402 pp.
• with Ranulph Glanville and Mike Robinson, Calculator Saturnalia, Or, Travels with a Calculator : A Compendium of Diversions & Improving Exercises for Ladies and Gentlemen, Wildwood, 1980.
• with Susan Curran, Micro Man: Computers and the Evolution of Consciousness, London: Macmillan, 1982, 222 pp.
  • ha-Adam ha-memuḥshav, Jerusalem: Keter, 1984. (Hebrew)
• More works at Pangaro.com

Papers

• with Bernard Scott, "CASTE: A System for Exhibiting Learning Strategies and Regulating Uncertainties", International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 5:1, Jan 1973, pp 17-52. [1]
• with Bernard Scott and D. Kallikourdis, "A Theory of Conversations and Individuals (Exemplified by the Learning Process on CASTE)", International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 5:4, Oct 1973, pp 443-566. [2]
• with D. Kallikourdis and Bernard Scott, "The Representation of Knowables", International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 7:1, Jan 1975, pp 15-134. [3]

Literature

• Paul Pangaro, "Pask as Dramaturg", Systems Research 10, 1993, pp 135-142.
• Kybernetes 30(5/6-7/8): "Gordon Pask, Remembered and Celebrated", eds. Bernard Scott and Ranulph Glanville, 2001.
• Andrew Pickering, "Cybernetics and the Mangle: Ashby, Beer and Pask", Social Studies of Science 32:3, Jun 2002, pp 413-437.
• Andrew Pickering, "Ontological Theatre. Gordon Pask, Cybernetics and the Art", 2006.
  • "Ontologisches Theater: Gordon Pask, Kybernetik und die Künste", in Spektakuläre Experimente: Praktiken der Evidenzproduktion im 17. Jahrhunder, eds. H. Schramm, L. Schwarte, and J. Lazardzig, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006, pp 454-476. (German)
• Heinz von Foerster, "On Gordon Pask", Systems Research 10:3, 2007, pp 35-42.
• Bernard Scott, "Working with Gordon Pask (1967-1978): Developing and Applying Conversation Theory", in Handbook of Conversation Design for Instructional Applications, ed. Rocci Luppicini, Information Science Reference, 2008.
• Andrew Pickering, "Beyond Design: Cybernetics, Biological Computers and Hylozoism", Synthese 168, 2009, pp 469-491.
• Usman Haque, "The Architectural Relevance of Gordon Pask", n.d.

Links

• Gordon-Pask-Archiv, U Wien, [4]

• North American Gordon Pask Archive, PDFs

• Pask Present, an exhibition of experimental and contemporary art and design growing out of gordon pask’s cybernetic theory and practice, Atelier Farbergasse, Vienna, 2008