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Ouroboros: Renewal and Recursion in Ancient Egyptian and Cybernetic Thought

Feb 21, 2024   3:00 pm  
Russell Room 2049 Natural History Building
Lecture
Sponsor
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
Contact
Brian Jefferson
E-Mail
bjjeffer@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

Bethany G. Anderson (Natural and Applied Sciences Archivist) will discuss the history of the evocative and paradoxical symbol of the Ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail. Originating in ancient Egyptian iconography, it was reconfigured by scientists and engineers at the U of I’s Biological Computer Lab as a scientific visualization to represent cybernetic ideas. For more information: https://go.illinois.edu/Ouroboros_Cybernetics.

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