Foreword 4
Prologue 7
percepHon 12 W movement
symmetry 154 break ing symmetry
measurement 190 observat7on
mathernaHcs 238 physics
cyberneHcs 294 computer sc7ence computer art
evoluHon theory 368 system theory garne theory
theory of science 418 art theory
psychoanalysis 508 acHonism
V7S7Ofl 546 decons truc hon
v7sual 586 cornrnunlcat7on
Index 602
Lenders 615
Imprint 616 Klien
felser
Stad?mayer-Bieber
Berzeviczy-Pallavic
Wagner
v.
Karlinsky
Neuwirth
Stolba Fischel Moser
Tomaschek
Reismayer-Fritsche
Dienes
Lang
Bothy
Hoffmann
Hälze?
Bortnyfk Stöhr Luzia Wittgenstein
Hofer Nechansky
Penther
Schule Moho?y-Nagy
Fleischmann Eiovanna
Loos Donau
Mattis-Teutsch
Bernheimer Zeymer Reichen Erich Hammerschniied
Hausmann Rochowanski Tihanyi
Kirnig
Uitz
5reenham
Hofmann
Pitsch
Bothy-Steiner
Benirschke
W.
Josef Ilse Koloman Leopold Ernst
Adolf
Maria Friedrich Anton Otto Ludwig
Adolf Fritz L. Lily Max Cizek Valdria
Trude Johanna Gertrude Paul Irmgard
Erika B?a Oskar
Jänos
Fritzi Gertrude Sändor Gerta
Hans Heinz
Sylvia Hans Elisabeth Gertrude Raoul Lsz?s5
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Activity
around
Vienna:
in
Art
Experimental
Werksthtte
Avant-Garde
Puni/
Painter,
and
Constructivism
the
Kepes
Wiener
luan
of
Theory
Hungarian Constructivism Stage
the
Eye
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of
the Moholy-Nagy‘s
György
Hungarian
the
Art!
the
of
Hungary
Electric
and
and
Hans
Poet:
World
Bauhaus
an
Hungarian
Austria
from
Emotion:
the
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Scholar,
for in
the
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a
Light of David
Elementary
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of
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Weibe? Alexander
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Hausmann/
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Graphics
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157 Erwin Chargaff A Few UnscientificThoughts About Symmetry 164 Victor Vasarely
160 Hagdolna and Istvn Hargftta 167-169 Vera tiolnär The Concept of Symmetry in Modern Chemical Research 170 Tibor Eayor 165 Vera und Francois Molnr Making and Breaking Symmetry in Visual Art 171 Hildegard )oos
179 Szan‘iszlö Brczi 172, 173 Simon Hantai Changes in Symmetry Caused by Cellular Automata 174, 175 Peter TtIrk 182 Michael Stöltzner Symmetryand Natural Laws 176 Walter Obholzer
187 Otto E. Rössler, Arthur P. Schmidt, 177 Sabina Härtner Peter Weibel The Interface Concept in the History of Physics 178 Jnos Saxon Szsz
156 measuremen f observahon
193 MiklÖs Rdei John von Neumann — Mathematical Physicist
198 Alexander Zart 1 Taking the Side Roads: Erwin Schrödinger in the 19405
201 Erwin Schrödinger Letters to Mihäly Polänyiand Leo Szilard
208 Harald Atmanspacher Wolfgang Paull — Not Just a Physicist
211 Walter Thirring Quantum ErgodicTheory
212 Anton Zeilinger Beil‘sTheorem, Information, and Quantum Physics
218 Peter Weibel Endophysics and Art
220 Otto E. Rössler/Peter Weibe? 221 Gottfried Bechtold The Two Levelsof Reality— “Exo“ and “Endo“ 221,222 Peter Weibe? 224 Peter Weibel Victor F.Weisskopf — The Exactitude of Quantum Physics 223 Ruth Schnell
224 Peter Weibel 228 Gäbor Csäszäri Eugene P Wigner — The Philosopher and the Problem of Measurement 229, 230 Attila CssYrgd
225 Karl Svozil 231 Jänos Sugär Is the World a Machine? 232 DÖra Maurer 234 Harald Ä Posch Microscopic Reversibilityand Macroscopic lrreversibility 233 Herwig Turk Linschinger Weibe! Maurer DÖra Josef Peter 272 273 274 Physics 1939) President and System 2, the Vienna Austria Science Wanderer to Numbers Vietoris (August from of from Letter World Rotations Mathematics and of Thinker Austria Hungarian in and Leopold Thermodynamic in — a of Roosevelt Sigmund Kähler Petz Geometer in Einstein‘s D. Between Groups Varga to The Mathematician Its — A Entropy Mathematics — Community Lighthouse and Franklin her Unconventional Tamäs Mathematician of Undecidability /Eckehart a Attached and the Mathematicians Schmidt Relationship of The Cube 1939) of — Vitae Frank M. Binder Helmberg/Karl Stöltzner Kri/ Szkely/Dnes the Neuwirther Neuwirt Logic President Einstein Staar 15, Weibe! Weibe? Proof Decrease Became Bott on to 1 Erdas Taussky-Todd Rubik‘s Szi?ard Szi?ard Szilard Mathematical Nestor the
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Kurt Richard
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Austria
Hungary
in
and
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Technology
Neurons
Art
Cybernetics
Visual:
and
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of
science
the art Cybernetics City
Computer
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Foerster
Foersfer
Glasersfeld
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of
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Often Theory
for
Machines
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Schöffer
History
Neumann Maurer
of
Causality
von
von
von
Natschläger
Peternk Constructivism
Weibel
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Visual
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von
George
Beckmann
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Cybernetic
Explosion
intermedia
cybernetics computer computer
Heinz
Circular Heinz Ernst Cybernetics
GyLfzä Radical Tihamr Peter
The
Cybernetic John Nicolas
Gyöze
The LszIÖ Heinz
Information Hermann Thomas
HowThings
Axel Digital
Networks Leslie
Hungarian Miklös CharlesA.
John Peter
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Hajdü
Kemny Wolsky
Lossonczy
Hartlauer
Maurer
tienne Taiaäs fienne
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L?öra Andrs
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Karl
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and
Morphogenesis
of
Theory
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Neumann
Theory
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von Mfgnonneau
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of
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of
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of System Epistemology
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theory
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for
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theory
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von Pfchler
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Harsanyi
Schuster
Kllai
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Theory Sigmund
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as
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Beyer Lakner Oberhuber Wiener
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in
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as of of
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420 psychoanalysis actionism
536 Pter Forgcs 511 Ferenc Eris On the Hstory of Hungarian Psychoanalysis 540 Gunter Brus
515 Johannes Reichmayr /Elke MtIh?leitner 541 HermannNitsch
“The Internationality of the Unconscious“ — Otto Fenichel‘sCirculars 1934-1945 542 Otto Muehl
521 Peter Wefbel 543 Rudolf Schuarzkogler Biographical Sketches of the Psychoanalytical Movement 544 Valie Export 537 Peter We7bel Vienna Actionism: Direct Art, BodyArt, Materia‘ Art 545 Tibor Hajas
510 V7S70 fl decons trukHon
551 Vilmos Huszr 551,553,556 Farkas t1olnr
552 Alfrd Forbth
553 Friedrich Kiesler
554 Ander Weininger
555, 556 Marcel Breuer
557 David Georges Emmerich
558 Jnos Megyik
559, 560 Gäbor Bachmen
560, 561 Läszlö Rajk
561 Tibor Szalai
562 Friedl Dicker / Franz Singer
562 Karl Steiner
563 Paul Theodore Frankl
564 Joseph Urban
565-567 Friedrich Kiesler
549 Sndor Bortnyik/tlarcel Breuer 568 Wenzel Hablik Farkas Molnär/Andor Weininger The Demands of the Age 569 Max Peintner 570 Walter Pichler 555 tiarcel Breuer Genesis of Design 570 Fritz Wotruba
571 Hans Hellem 559 Läszlö Beka Deconstruction in Hungary 572 Laurids Ortner
565 Dieter Bogner 572, 573 Haus-Rucker-Co Friedrich Kiesler 573, 579 Coop Himmelb(l)au
568 Franco Bevilacqua 574 Zilnd up Wenzel Hablik. Architecture Between Utopia and Reality 575 Raimund Abraham
570 GÜnther Feuerstein 575 Friedrich St. Florian Visions and Realities. The Austrian Scene in the 1960s and 19705 576 Bernhard Hafner 578 Dieter Bogner ‘ 576 GÜnther Oomenig Coop Himmelb(I)au 576 Eilfrid Huth 581 Manfred Wolf f-Plottegg 577 Carl Pruscha Quick and Dirty 577 Gernot Nalbach 583 Victor Papanek How to Draw a Hexagon 580 Otto Beckmann 581, 582 Manfred Wolff-Plottegg 585 Bernard Rudofsky architecture without architects 584 Agnes Denes
548 visual communfcahon
589 Rolf Sachsse Herbert Bayeror the UniversalDesigner
591 Angela Jansen What Can Information Graphic Designers Learn from Otto Neurath
Today? — Isotype and Information Graphics
594 Joseph Binder Graphic Design
595 Ecke Bonk in<=>formation [The Speech of Weimar] 589, 590 Herbert Bayer
597 Peter Weibel 594 Joseph Binder Logo Culture 596 Ecke Bonk 600 Jeff Bernard Thomas A. Sebeok and the Signs of Life 599 Manfred Erjautz
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