Captured by an Unprecedented Task

A film by the legendary cinema studio KyivNaukFilm, which popularized complex science concepts, and the explanation of what cybernetics is, not just as a “science, but also as a certain position, attitude to the world.

Capturing with an Unprecedented Task presents two modernist phenomena at once, which are important for Ukrainian history and present and which help understand an emphasis on the term “cybernetic art.” A film by the legendary film studio KyivNaukFilm, which popularized complex science concepts in the accessible form of cinema. And the explanation of what cybernetics is, not just as a “science, but also as a certain position, attitude to the world.” Capturing with an Unprecedented Task collects the facts that demonstrate the decolonization approach to the history of Soviet science and its great contribution to global science. Kyiv of the 1960s–1980s (Ukrainian SSR) emerges here as the key center of cybernetics, the avant-garde metascience of the 20th century, and the first computers under a Ukrainian name (Promin) are mentioned.