Reserved seating for a screening of the film at Vinegar Hill Theater April 11 is already full, but seats might still be available at a 9 a.m. A musician, author, educator and multimedia artist, Nachmanovitch continues to write and teach about Bateson. His daughter, Nora Bateson, recently produced an award-winning documentary about her father, “An Ecology of Mind,” with consultation from a former student, Stephen Nachmanovitch, who lives in Charlottesville.
His work also inspired the creation of family therapy. In his most famous book, “Steps to an Ecology of Mind,” first published in 1972, and in other writings, Bateson applied this approach to not only ecological systems, but also organisms, cultures, families, arts, games and communications.
One of the 20th century’s most integrative and cross-disciplinary thinkers and writers, Bateson, who died in 1980, was a pioneer in the development of a systems approach, called cybernetics, that understands living beings and objects by their interdependent, dynamic relationships and patterns.
He will be the focus of a symposium at the University of Virginia April 10-12 that aims to re-awaken interest in his work and generate new conversations about his most productive ideas. “The major problems in the world today are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think,” anthropologist Gregory Bateson wrote in the 1970s.īateson – a philosopher, biologist and cognitive scientist, as well as anthropologist once married to colleague Margaret Mead – is often credited with helping to inspire the modern ecology movement with his ideas about the interconnectedness of human thinking with the natural environment.
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