(Shanghai, Oct. 10th) On the afternoon of Oct. 10th, 2012, Professor Roy Ascott, DeTao Master of Technoetic Arts, gave a lecture at Shanghai Institute of Visual Art. He won a burst of applause and enthusiastic cheers when he entered Room 107 of Yifei Building. At the invitation of SIVA College of New Media Art, College of Performing Arts and College of Design, he made this special trip for the lecture entitled Syncretic Cybernetics: Art in the Time of Change.