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SUMMARY:Moving Technical and Scientific Knowledge\, People and Objects after 1945: IIT Madras and the RWTH Aachen (Roland Wittje)
DESCRIPTION:c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research\nOn Wednesday\, January 25th\, Associate Professor for the History of Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras\, Roland Wittje\, will talk about Moving Technical and Scientific Knowledge\, People and Objects after 1945: IIT Madras and the RWTH Aachen. The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research. \nTo participlate\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/moving-technical-and-scientific-knowledge-people-and-objects-after-1945-roland-wittje/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 22/23
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230208T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230208T183000
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SUMMARY:Voodoo science and the missing controversy: Neuroscience as an integration project (Torsten H. Voigt)
DESCRIPTION:c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research\nOn Wednesday\, February 8th\, Torsten H. Voigt\, Professor for Sociology at RWTH Aachen University will talk about “Voodoo science and the missing controversy: Neuroscience as an integration project”. The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research. \nTo participlate\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de \n 
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/voodoo-science-and-the-missing-controversy-neuroscience-as-an-integration-project-torsten-h-voigt/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 22/23
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230215T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230217T140000
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SUMMARY:"Wissenschaften des Konkreten" Conference (German)
DESCRIPTION:Abstraktion und Konkretion lassen sich als komplementäre epistemische Operationen betrachten\, die für die Literatur\, die Wissenschaften und die Künste gleichermaßen konstitutiv sind. Sie sind wirksam in Prozessen des Fingierens und Entwerfens\, in der Anverwandlung\, Anordnung und Beschreibung empirischer Gegenstände\, in der Begriffsbildung und Exemplifikation. Methoden und Kategorien der praxeologisch orientierten Wissenschaftsforschung aufgreifend\, befasst sich die Tagung mit historischen Konzepten und Verfahren der Konkretion und Abstraktion sowie mit künstlerischen und wissenschaftlichen Praktiken des Umgangs mit dem Konkreten: mit Verfahren der Beobachtung und Analyse\, des Sammelns und Klassifizierens\, der Präsentation und der Darstellung. Dabei soll der Begriff des Konkreten in seinen verschiedenen Facetten entfaltet und spezifiziert werden\, vom Einzelphänomen über das Individuelle und Subjektive bis hin zum Sinnlich-Anschaulichen und den Konnotationen des präzise Umrissenen\, Harten und Greifbaren. \nInformation und Anmeldung: konkret@germlit.rwth-aachen.de \nProgramm
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/wissenschaft-des-konkreten-conference-german/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230227T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230228T170000
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SUMMARY:Models of complex systems as scientific-public boundary objects. The case of climate change: Complexity and Transdisciplinarity (Marseille)
DESCRIPTION:On February 27-28\, 2023\, the Complexity and Transdisciplinarity Graduate School of the Center for Advanced Studies (IMéRA)\, Aix-Marseille University is hosting an event on “Models of complex systems as scientific-public boundary objects. The case of climate change“\, organized by Gabriele Gramelsberger and Alexandre Hocquet (Lorraine University\, c:o/re alumni). To register\, kindly contact Solenne Bruhl (solenne.BRUHL@univ-amu.fr). The event will feature the following talks: \n27.2.2023\, 14-16h Complex systems\, climate modeling and managing of uncertainties – Managing the complexity of knowledge production \nGabriele Gramelsberger \n28.2.2023\, 10-12h Community models\, standards and platforms: Managing the complexity of global collaboration and policy \nGabriele Gramelsberger \n28.2.2023\, 14-16h Research software: Managing the complexity of collaborative programming \nGabriele Gramelsberger & Alexandre Hocquet
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/models-of-complex-systems-as-scientific-public-boundary-objects-the-case-of-climate-change-complexity-and-transdisciplinarity/
LOCATION:Aix-Marseille University\, Marseille\, France
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230314T100000
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SUMMARY:Turning Points in Reflections on Science and Technology: Toward Historicizing STS
DESCRIPTION:This workshop investigates turning points in reflections on science and technology over the course of the 20th and 21st century. It aims at opening up the field by historicizing Science and Technology Studies from various historical turns. Furthermore\, it aims at discussing the various notions of “historicizing STS”. \nPlease find here the program. Please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de. \nDirectly after the workshop\, the STS Hub will start. \nThe Historicizing STS workshop is conjointly chaired by the fellows of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Cultures of Research” Clarissa Lee (formerly Universiti Malaya)\, Arianna Borrelli (TU Berlin)\, Roland Wittje (Indian Institute of Technology Mardas)\, Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa)\, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (EHESS – École des hautes études en sciences sociales)\, and Jan C. Schmidt (University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt) together with Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTH Aachen University).
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/turning-points-in-reflections-on-science-and-technology-toward-historicizing-sts/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:STS Hub. Towards encounters amongst STS scholars in Germany
DESCRIPTION:Science & Technology Studies (STS) has become a recognised\, delineated academic field in the international research landscape. In Germany\, however\, STS is rather dispersed among existing academic disciplines\, research institutes\, and loosely connected academic networks and associations. To strengthen the interconnectedness of STS in Germany\, c:o/re co-organizes STS-hub.de\, a conference series that brings together German organisations\, labs\, and research groups that are more or less closely related to STS. Please find a preliminary program and an overview of already participating groups\, organisations\, and networks here.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/sts-hub-towards-encounters-amongst-sts-scholars-in-germany/
LOCATION:RWTH Aachen\, C.A.R.L.\, Claßenstraße 11\, Aachen\, 52072\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Engineering Turn? Talk by Stefan Böschen in Vienna (German)
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, March 28\, Stefan Böschen is presenting the work of c:o/re at the Institute for Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. You can find the abstract and practical information on how to register on the website of the Institute for Technology Assessment\, here.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/engineering-turn-talk-by-stefan-boschen-in-vienna-german/
LOCATION:Campus Akademie Bäckerstraße 13\, Bäckerstraße 13\, Wien\, https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ita\, 1010\, Austria
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230412T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230412T183000
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SUMMARY:From Reciprocity of Formulation to Symbolic Language: A Source of Complexity in Scientific Knowledge - Giora Hon
DESCRIPTION:“From reciprocity of formulation to symbolic language: a source of complexity in scientific knowledge” by Giora Hon (University of Haifa). \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2023 lecture series “Complexity”.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-series-complexity-giora-hon/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230426T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230426T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230301T113200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T104159Z
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SUMMARY:Instability and Complexity. On the Emergence of Late-Modern Science - Jan C. Schmidt
DESCRIPTION:“Instability and Complexity. On the Emergence of Late-Modern Science” by  Jan C. Schmidt (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences) \nAbstract\nIn my talk\, I distinguish between compositional and dynamical complexity – in order to focus on the latter from the perspective of complex systems theory. Complex systems theory\, including nonlinear dynamics\, chaos-\, self-organization- and catastrophe theory\, fractal geometry\, synergetics and dissipative structures is a fascinating field of scientific inquiry that spans many established disciplines. However\, it poses challenging problems for scientific methodology as well as cultural guiding metaphysical assumptions\, e.g.\, predictability\, reproducibility\, testability and describability/explainability. The common denominator of all of these challenges is instability — that is the main thesis. On the other hand\, instabilities are not seen only in the negative sense. They turn out as a relevant factor of dynamical complexity and\, in particular\, as a source of growth\, self-organization\, pattern formation and of biological life. However\, instability has long been neglected in the history of science. The talk will reconstruct the vibrant history of instability and show how the “dogma of stability” was replaced in the 20th century by a different view of nature and the sciences that includes instabilities – and thus\, acknowledges dynamic complexity. This gradual shift within the culture of the sciences and the emergence of a new-late modern regime will be addressed. The late-modern regime does not replace the traditional\, classical-modern regime\, but complements and extends it. \nJan Cornelius Schmidt is physicist (Ph.D.) and philosopher (Habilitation). Since 2008 he has been Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Previously\, he was junior researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Physics\, Mainz\, as well as at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Technology\, Darmstadt\, and Associate Professor for Philosophy of Technology at Georgia Tech\, Atlanta. He was invited Guest and Stand-In-Professor at Universities in Jena\, Klagenfurt and Vienna. Schmidt serves on the scientific advisory board of the Transdisciplinarity Net\, Swiss Academies of Sciences\, Berne\, and he is member of the scientific advisory board of the Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice. His research interests encompass philosophy and history of science and technology; science and technology studies; technology assessment; science\, engineering and sustainability ethics; concepts of inter- and transdisciplinarity; and complex systems\, nonlinear dynamics\, chaos and self-organization theories. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2023 lecture series Complexity.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-series-complexity-jan-c-schmidt/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230505T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230506T170000
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SUMMARY:European Traditions of Philosophy of Science: Unexpected Varieties
DESCRIPTION:Workshop organized by \nc:o/re\, Aachen University & Dr. Andrei Mărășoiu \nTo understand the context-sensitive justificatory practices at work in scientific pursuits\, an understanding of research cultures and the variation therein is necessary. In this light\, this workshop addresses the interaction between logic and metaphysical models in scientific practices and social and cultural approaches to these practices. \nIn criticism of Western-centric or Eurocentric tendencies in the sociology and historiography of science\, we aim to better evince the many varieties of knowledge by focusing on certain regional philosophical schools within the European continent. By exploring local pluralities of knowledge production\, we aim to reflect on the usefulness or irrelevance of distinctions between Western\, Central and Eastern European philosophy. \nA currently important debate where knowledge systems may display their different metaphysical underpinnings revolves around articulating the idea of formal resources needed to lay the foundations of the scientific enterprise. By tackling such concerns\, the workshop is poised to join historians\, philosophers\, and sociologists of science\, representing distinct schools of thought\, to reflect on epistemic practices and current trends in the philosophy and sociology of science. \nThe event will be hosted by the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Bucharest  \nFull Program can be found here. \nThis Workshop is part of c:o/re Series Varieties of Science \n \n 
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/european-traditions-of-philosophy-of-science-unexpected-varieties/
LOCATION:University of Bucharest\, Splaiul Independenței nr. 204\, București\, 060024\, Romania
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230510T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230510T183000
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SUMMARY:Neither Good nor Old-Fashioned: On the Curious Complexity of Soviet AI - Benjamin Peters
DESCRIPTION:“Neither Good nor Old-Fashioned: On the Curious Complexity of Soviet AI” by Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa). \nAbstract: \nThis public talk will explore the material media philosophies of Soviet artificial intelligence research and its precursors. In particular\, it will examine the case for not-anthropomorphic\, even invisual imaginations of smart technologies in the wartime wake of the Soviet experience with damaged bodies. \nBenjamin Peters is Hazel Rogers Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa with appointments in the School of Cyber Studies and Russian Studies Program. He is also affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and alumnus of Columbia’s Communication PhD program in 2010. He is the author of How Not to Network a Nation: the Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (MITP 2016\, winner of three awards in three fields)\, editor of Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society & Culture (Princeton UP 2016)\, and coeditor of Your Computer is on Fire (MITP 2021). He has published extensively across the fields of media theory and history\, the transnational history and philosophy of information technology & society\, and technology criticism with an emphasis on the causes and consequences of the information age in the Soviet century. He is currently conducting research on alternative genealogies of artificial intelligence. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2023 lecture series “Complexity“.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-series-complexity-benjamin-peters/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230517T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230517T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230301T113509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T104125Z
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SUMMARY:Complexity – From Natural and Social Sciences to Artificial Intelligence - Klaus Mainzer
DESCRIPTION:“Complexity – From Natural and Social Sciences to Artificial Intelligence” – Klaus Mainzer (TU Munich). \nAbstract: \nAccording to several prominent authors\, including Stephen Hawking\, a main part of 21st century science will be on complexity research. The intuitive idea is that global patterns and structures emerge from locally interacting elements like atoms in laser beams\, molecules in chemical reactions\, proteins in cells\, cells in organs\, neurons in brains\, transistors in electronic systems etc. (Mainzer 2007). Complex pattern formation has been reported from many disciplines (e.g.\,  physics\, chemistry\, biology\, brain research\, engineering). The causes of complex pattern formation have been analyzed from various perspectives such as Schrödinger’s (1948) order from disorder\, Prigogine’s (1980) dissipative structure\, Haken’s (1983) synergetics\, Langton’s (1990) edge of chaos etc. But concepts of complexity are often based on examples or metaphors only. We argue for a mathematically precise and rigorous definition of local activity as the cause of complex pattern formation which can be tested in natural as well as technical sciences by constructive methods. \nRecently\, these results of complexity research have become important for machine learning of AI (artificial intelligence) systems (e.g.\, neural networks\, cognitive AI-systems\, robots). Instead of complex pattern formation in nature\, complex pattern recognition of AI-systems is considered which is modeled in statistical learning theory. But statistical correlations of data cannot replace causal explanations of events. Algorithms of causal learning are necessary to detect causal models behind the statistical distributions of data. Causal learning would be a first step from weak AI with probabilistic learning to strong AI. \nReferences: K. Mainzer\, Thinking in Complexity\, Springer: Berlin 5th edition 2007; K. Mainzer/L. Chua\, Local Activity Principle. The Cause of Complexity\, World Scientific Singapore 2013; K. Mainzer\, Artificial Intelligence. When do Machines take over? Springer: Berlin 2nd edition 2019; K. Mainzer/ R. Kahle\, Grenzen der Künstlichen Intelligenz – theoretisch\, praktisch\, ethisch\, Springer. Berlin 2022. \nKlaus Mainzer is professor emeritus at the Technical University Munich of the School of Social Sciences and Technology. While obtaining a PhD in the philosophy of the basics of mathematics\, more precisely constructive and algorithmically grounded procedures\, he habilitated on their application in geometry and physics. He is a member of The Academy of Europe (Academy Europaea)/London\, the European Academy of Science and Arts\, the German Academy of Science of Technology\, president of the German-Japanese Society for Integrative Science and board member of the Udo Keller Stiftung (Hamburg). From the vantage point of contemplating the computability of the world\, he works as a science philosopher of the foundations and future perspectives of science and technology and as a complexity researcher focussed on complex systems in nature\, technology\, economy and society\, as well as the foundations of AI and Big Data. His research seeks for constructively founded solutions\, methods and evidentiary procedures which allow to control the algorithmization and digitalization of technology and society. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2023 lecture series “Complexity“.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-series-complexity-klaus-mainzer/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230607T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230607T183000
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SUMMARY:A Philosophy of Artscience: Something Old\, Something Novel - Clarissa Lee
DESCRIPTION:“A Philosophy of Artscience: Something Old\, Something Novel” by Clarissa Lee (transdisciplinary researcher\, c:o/re Aachen). \nAbstract: \nThis talk explores how one could develop and apprehend a philosophically intuited syzygy that is art and science\, giving way to art-science and artscience (without the hyphen). However\, this is not merely about what philosophy could do for artscience (the un-hyphenated version is the speaker’s preferred choice for reasons to be explained in the talk)\, but also untangles and highlights the simultaneous (and comparative) philosophical arguments that invariably\, even if not intentionally\, exert the co-existence of art-like (filtered through aesthetics) and science-like (filtered through cognitive acts of logic) subjects in epistemological discussions that often reinforce reductive representations of art and science. This talk traces the philosophy of artscience as it transports from fledgling theoretical constructs on ways of knowing and making knowledge to the recuperation of knowledge practices marginalized by the ‘over-professionalization’ of disciplines that led to the dehistoricization and decontextualization of contemporary technoscientifc knowledge\, while disrupting the chain of evidence following the tracks of such knowledge over space\, time\, and culture. This talk will also promulgate philosophy of artscience as a method for research and creative interventions within Science and Technology Studies + Art through some choice examples. \nClarissa Ai Ling Lee was a senior lecturer with the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of Malaya\, Kuala Lumpur\, Malaysia\, with research specialization at the intersection of performance studies\, design studies\, science and technology studies\, cultural studies\, and digital media studies. Previously she has held research positions at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies at the National University of Malaysia (UKM)\, the Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development and Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia\, both at Sunway University Malaysia. She has researched and published on diverse topics in STS ranging from Malaysia’s history in the physical/nuclear sciences\, participatory-speculative design in policy development\, digital infrastructures and social hacking\, as well as epistemologies of artscience. She is presently working on her monograph\, Speculative Technoscience\, that proposes a review of scientific epistemology of the global south through the mediating concept of ‘science-like’ knowledge as contextualized by artscience and queer epistemologies. \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2023 lecture series “Complexity“.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-series-complexity-clarissa-lee/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230613T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230613T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230529T172435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T104106Z
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence: The Brand That Wouldn’t Die. A lecture by Professor Thomas Haigh
DESCRIPTION:The history of AI is the history of an overhyped brand that has only very recently come to signify a set of deployable technologies with broad application and clear\, if somewhat horrifying\, purposes. Over almost seventy years it’s been attached to a range of loosely related projects\, none of which have yet come close to delivering on the promise of creating computer systems with human-like intelligence. One insider characterized the story of AI as “the history of failed ideas.” Yet in the process of failing\, early AI researchers made vital but incidental contributions to the development of computer technology and computer science. In this talk I’ll ask where did discussion of artificial intelligence come from\, why was it so attractive to researchers and sponsors\, and what did the lofty rhetoric of machine intelligence have to do with the actual practice of artificial intelligence as it institutionalized through research labs\, curricula\, textbooks\, and professional associations? I’ll also look for continuities and discontinuities between our own moment and earlier cycles of AI hype and disillusionment. \nThomas Haigh\, PhD is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Comenius Visiting Professor of the History of Computing at Siegen University. He has published on many aspects of the history of computing including the evolution of data base management systems\, word processing\, the software package\, corporate computer departments\, Internet software\, computing in science fiction\, the “software crisis” of the 1960s\, IBM in Europe\, and the Colossus code breaking machines.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/artificial-intelligence-the-brand-that-wouldnt-die-a-lecture-by-professor-thomas-haigh/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230621T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230621T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230301T114620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T104047Z
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SUMMARY:Exposures\, Photographic and Otherwise: Complex Encounters with Toxicity - Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou
DESCRIPTION:Exposures\, Photographic and Otherwise: Complex Encounters with Toxicity – Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou. \nAbstract: \n“Exposure\,” as a term\, freely flows in different contexts\, from environmentalist and activist circles to scientific and medical discourse. Levels of exposure—to radiation\, to lead\, to asbestos\, and beyond—are deemed safe or unsafe by shifting regulatory frameworks. And more often than not\, these levels are “terribly uneven” in their social distribution (Alaimo 2010). In the practice of photography\, exposure precedes the revelation of the image—it registers on the negative an image that is latent. Photographic and toxic exposures unexpectedly came together in uranium mines in the 1960s and 1970s\, when workers used photographic film to measure levels of exposure to radon (Hecht 2012; van Wyck 2010). This talk moves through intersecting meanings of “exposure” in an attempt to think together figures that usually sit apart: the photographer and the miner. \nDr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou is a historian of modern and contemporary art\, specializing in the relationship between art and science with an emphasis on nuclear technologies. Her interdisciplinary scholarship\, at the intersection of art history and the environmental humanities\, engages nuclear aesthetics\, the visual culture of extraction\, and material histories of art and the environment. She was awarded her PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales\, Paris in 2021\, supported by an Onassis Foundation scholarship\, with a dissertation entitled Dwelling\, Extracting\, Burying: Nuclear Imaginaries in Contemporary Art (1970-2020). She is an affiliate researcher at the Centre Georg Simmel\, EHESS\, Paris. She has held visiting fellowships in environmental humanities centres at Carleton University\, Ottawa (2018) and VU University\, Amsterdam (2019) and was a curatorial fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2020-21). Currently\, she is working on an exhibition about the atomic age at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (fall 2024). \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2023 lecture series “Complexity”.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-series-complexity-kyveli-mavrokordopoulou/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230705T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20230705T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230301T114719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T104038Z
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SUMMARY:Complexity beteween hype and history - Arianna Borrelli
DESCRIPTION:“Complexity beteween hype and history” by Arianna Borrelli (TU Berlin). \nAbstract: \nSpeaking about the history of computing\, Michael Mahoney stated  that “hype hides history” (2005) and\, indeed\, the same could be said of the history of complexity. Between the 1980s and the early ’90s the study of complex systems and related areas (deterministic chaos\, nonlinear systems) established itself as a new disciplinary field\, and did so amid a sweeping wave of consensus that this development represented both a breakthrough for and an epochal break in the sciences. These claims originated from the academic community\, but reached well beyond it and were supported and expanded by successful popular science books published at the same time as the first scientific journals devoted to the new field appeared. Both academic and popular discussions supported the claims of novelty by offering reconstructions of the history of the field rich in stories of forgotten classics\, chance discoveries and parallel developments which suddenly converged. Hype and history were closely bound right from the beginning and\, rather than attempting to unravel them\, in my presentation I will take a closed look at the way in which earlier and later historiography might have shaped the complexity hype\, and possibly the notion of complexity itself. \nArianna Borrelli is a historian and philosopher of natural philosophy and modern science. Her overarching research interest is the relationship between scientific knowing and the strategies employed to mediate it\, like words\, images\, formulas or code. Her fields of research include medieval cosmology\, early modern meteorology\, natural magic and quantum physics\, with current work focusing on the historical-epistemological premises and implications of the increasing use of computational tools in science. She holds degrees in both physics and philosophy and a PhD and habilitation in history of science\, the latter with the thesis: Formulating phenomena: concept formation and the materiality of theory in the early modern and modern period (TU Berlin 2018). Borrelli held research positions in physics (Rome\, CERN) and in history and philosophy of science (MPIWG\, Wuppertal\, TU Berlin\, Lüneburg). She is currently President-Elect of the Commission on History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC). \nThis event is part of our summer semester 2023 lecture series “Complexity“.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-series-complexity-ariana-borelli/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231012T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231012T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230918T082731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T111759Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture and discussion with Phil MacNaghten: The knowledge politics of making anticipatory knowledge
DESCRIPTION:How can we engage with futures that are by definition uncertain and unknowable? How can we democratise the making of anticipative knowledge? How can we use such knowledge to contest\, if necessary\, the futures that are inscribed in techno-visionary science? Adopting a science and technology studies perspective\, a public engagement methodology is presented aimed at anticipating the kinds of possible and plausible worlds that novel science and technology bring into being. Drawing on empirical social science research projects using focus groups\, design criteria are explicated on context\, framing\, moderation\, sampling\, analysis and interpretation. A feature of the methodology lies in the assembly of emergent collectives and identities that are constituted to negotiate endogenously public meanings\, concerns and priorities. I reflect on the potential of such processes to reconfigure dominant policy narratives\, the role of the social scientist in mediating such processes and the politics of making anticipatory knowledge. \nThis event is part of the 5th STS-Forum at RWTH Aachen University.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-and-discussion-with-phil-macnaghten-the-knowledge-politics-of-making-anticipatory-knowledge/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
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ORGANIZER;CN="HumTec (Human Technology Center)":MAILTO:mareike.smolka@wur.nl
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231019
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231021
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230918T104102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T104339Z
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SUMMARY:Tagung: Briefe des 15. Jahrhunderts als Quellen für interkulturelle Kontakte zwischen Italien und dem Osmanischen Reich
DESCRIPTION:From the 19th to 20th October 2023\, a conference on “Briefe des 15. Jahrhunderts als Quellen für interkulturelle Kontakte zwischen Italien und dem Osmanischen Reich” will take place at c:o/re\, organized by Florian Hartmann. \nPlease find the flyer and all information here.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/tagung-briefe-des-15-jahrhunderts-als-quellen-fur-interkulturelle-kontakte-zwischen-italien-und-dem-osmanischen-reich/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
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ORGANIZER;CN="Prof. Dr. Florian Hartmann":MAILTO:hartmann@histinst.rwth-aachen.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231025T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231025T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230726T120335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231024T063319Z
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SUMMARY:Life from scratch - Gabriele Gramelsberger
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nFor more than a decade\, scientists have been exploring the transition from non-living to living entities in order to create life from scratch\, i.e.\, to move chemically from protoplasm to protocells and finally to artificial organisms. Today\, synthetic biology aims to genetically engineer life from scratch\, such as the synthetic Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn3.0—an artificial single-celled organism with a minimal genome consisting of 473 genes. With the use of computer-aided design (CAD) for genome editing\, rapid design of new organisms is now a “one-stop-shop” business. This talk will provide a brief introduction to the history of the re-genesis of life\, followed by an overview of the current practice of synthetic biology of programming life. It will conclude with some reflections on the proliferating “domain of synthetica.” \nGabriele Gramelsberger holds the Chair for Theory of Science and Technology at RWTH Aachen University and is one of the two directors of c:o/re. In 2018 she founded the Computational Social Systems Lab\, supported by the NRW Digital Fellowship 2017. Her aim is to develop a conceptual framework for Philosophy of Computational Sciences as well as an open science infrastructure for Computational Science Studies. She is a member of the RWTH Human Technology Center and serves as Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the RWTH Aachen University. \nThis event is part of our winter semester 2023/24 lecture series Lifelikeness. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evening-lecture-by-gabriele-gramelsberger/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024,Lecture Series 23/24
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231108T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231108T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230726T121020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T092745Z
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SUMMARY:Robot\, a Laboratory "Animal": Producing Knowledge through and about Human-Robot Interaction - Andrei Korbut
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe lecture focuses on the use of robots (primarily humanoid) in robotics laboratories to produce knowledge about human–robot interaction (HRI). Robotics is a large and diverse field\, but with the recent development of artificial conversational systems and the increasing availability of human-like machines\, HRI is now one of the fastest growing and most dynamic subfields in robotics. The lecture will introduce the conceptual framework for studying robots as contemporary laboratory “animals”\, based on the notion of different types of lifelikeness that can be ascribed to humanoid robots. It will argue that robots\, unlike other types of laboratory “living instruments”\, allow for a much closer connection between tools and objects in knowledge production because they hinder the perception of them as “natural objects”. \nThis event is part of our winter semester 2023/24 Lecture Series Lifelikeness. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evening-lecture/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024,Lecture Series 23/24
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231122T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231122T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230726T121253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231120T085013Z
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SUMMARY:Neuromorphic Computing: Inspiration from the Brain for Future AI Technologies - Emre Neftci
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe importance of understanding the principles of brain computation and incorporating them into artificial systems is often considered necessary to advance AI technologies. However\, the recent advent of large\, “Foundational” vision and language models casts doubt on this assumption\, as recent AI architectures differ considerably from the brain. Yet\, the human brain consumes far less energy to solve tasks similar to large AI models while demonstrating greater resilience to ambiguous cues\, physical damage\, and superior reasoning capabilities. This raises important questions: Can one emulate the brain’s efficiency and robustness? Will such brain-inspired solutions enhance state-of-the-art AI algorithms or will they lead to fundamentally different solutions? This lecture aims to shed light on these questions from the perspective of brain-inspired “neuromorphic computing”\, explaining how current AI was shaped by neuroscience\, what stands in the way of emulating the brain\, and the potential benefits of taking a deeper dive into how life shaped computation. \nThis event is part of our winter semester 2023/24 Lecture Series Lifelikeness. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/lecture-series-lecture/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024,Lecture Series 23/24
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231206T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231206T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230726T122449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T122920Z
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SUMMARY:Art's Mediation as Remediation: On Some Artworks and their reuses of Toxic Materials - Esther Leslie
DESCRIPTION:There is so much toxicity and contamination in the world. It is incontestable that vast parts of nature are poisoned\, ailing or in retreat\, and under threat. We live amongst poisoned materials.  Drawing on the various ways in which Adorno and Benjamin addressed both the assault on nature\, in the name of progress\, and the possibility – or significance – of art in and after catastrophe\, a number of contemporary art practices are examined in this lecture as a working through of art as a form of mediation. This mediation is multiple:  between nature and culture\, between world and self\, between politics and aesthetics\, The works and practices under examination engage directly with toxic materials\, actual or evoked. In this way\, the toxic materials are re-mediated\, in a double sense. They are used and reused as toxic materials\, but in addition\, they are remediated\, which is to say provide some sort of remedy or alleviation of the dire circumstances. Through such practices\, the transmutational capacities of art practice are engaged\, but without negating the actual hurt in the world. \nEsther Leslie is a Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck\, University of London. She has research interests in political theories of aesthetics and culture and the poetics of science and technology\, as well as animation\, in an expanded sense. She has a particular focus on thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School\, including Walter Benjamin\, T.W. Adorno\, Kracauer and Bloch. Recent work includes a thorough and experimental history of Weimar radio and BBC exile history through the figure of Ernst Schoen. \nKeynote by Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou. \nThis event is part of our winter semester 2023/24 Lecture Series Lifelikeness. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evening-lecture-esther-leslie-keynote-by-kyveli-mavrokordopoulou/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024,Lecture Series 23/24
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231206T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231207T181500
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20231031T132759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T102753Z
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SUMMARY:Toxic Material(itie)s: Eco-Material Entanglements in Art
DESCRIPTION:Workshop at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) \n\nOrganized by \n\n\n\nKäte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) & \n\n\n\nChristian Berger (Universität Siegen)\, Ruby de Vos (University of Groningen)\, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) \n\n\n\nOur workshop sets out from the obvious\, yet underexplored assumption\, that much of the very stuff that art is made of is toxic. Whether working in the studio\, in the dark room\, in the quarry\, or at contaminated sites\, artists have been\, and continue to be\, exposed to a wide range of toxic materials. But exposure always goes hand in hand with its inevitable corollary\, pollution—from the dumped toxic waste generated by the production of photographic materials to the air and water pollution generated by marble extraction. The toxicity of artistic materials extends far beyond the hazards of the artist’s job—they are part of larger environmental issues. So what can we learn when we explore artworks through the lens of their materiality within an expanded frame that is attentive to their art historical as well as environmental and sociopolitical context? \n\n\n\nSee the full program here. \n\n\n\nTo attend\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/toxic-materialities-eco-material-entanglements-in-art/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231220T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231220T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20240311T092437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T092437Z
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SUMMARY:Agency across the Human and the Non-Human. Between Engineering and the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Workshop with c:o/re Senior Fellows Anna Laktionova\, Masahiko Hara and Carl Mitcham from the Colorado School of Mines. \nThe workshop unfolds as a discussion format in which three presentations are followed by discussions and comments. From an engineering perspective\, Masahiko Hara speaks about his research on living and non-living systems and their interaction. Following on from this\, Anna Lationova points out some important differences for thinking together engineering and the humanities\, introducing concepts of will and willpower in relation to technology. Finally\, Carl Mitcham presents his remarks on a stronger integration of political philosophy in the philosophy of technology in a talk that is open to the public and marks the end of the workshop.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/agency-across-the-human-and-the-non-human-between-engineering-and-the-humanities/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231220T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20231220T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20231212T135705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231212T135832Z
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SUMMARY:Plea for the Political Philosophy of Engineering and Technology - Carl Mitcham
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nMy thesis is that discussion of ethical and other issues in the philosophy of technology needs to be complemented with political philosophy. Development of the thesis takes place in three parts. Part one notes the absence of political philosophy in the first\, classic European period in the philosophy of technology. Part two reviews developments in the philosophy of technology from 1970s to the 2020s\, and how early efforts to think political philosophy of technology were progressively marginalized in favor of ethical\, ontological\, and epistemological questions. Part three looks at some nascent political philosophical discourse in current philosophy of technology that calls attention to the failure in ethics of technology to address “the problem of many hands” as well as “cultural lag” gaps between technological power\, regulation\, and political governance. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/plea-for-the-political-philosophy-of-engineering-and-technology-carl-mitcham/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2024,Lecture Series 23/24
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ORGANIZER;CN="c%3Ao/re":MAILTO:events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240110T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240110T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230726T123201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240103T103447Z
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SUMMARY:Towards an Ecology of Technoscience - Massimiliano Simons
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nNew emerging sciences and technologies – such as AI\, synthetic biology\, or robotics – are too often discussed in isolation. As a result\, little attention is paid to the potential commonalities and ways in which they can inform each other. In this talk\, I want to focus on aspect of what many of these technosciences have in common: attempts to harness the self-organization of systems in order to design new technological artifacts. This involves a certain loss of control: the scientists do not have full control over the outcome\, but grant the system under study a certain autonomy. \nThe most obvious case of this is machine learning in data science\, where a problem – often in the form of discriminating between data – is solved not by rational design\, but by letting a self-learning algorithm find patterns for us. While this can be effective\, it also leads to the problem of opacity: the process by which the problem was solved often remains a black box\, with all the risks that implies. In this talk\, I will argue that this problem is not unique to data science\, but is also at work in other sciences. I will focus on the life sciences\, and in particular the method of directed evolution in synthetic biology\, which follows similar lines: solving a set of problems – how to design specific molecules or enzymes – not by rational design\, but by creating a context in which natural selection solves the problem for us. \nThe goal of this talk is to work toward a more general framework for how and why the technosciences can be characterized by this fascination with self-organization and loss of control. \nThis event is part of our winter semester 2023/24 Lecture Series Lifelikeness. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evening-lecture-2/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024,Lecture Series 23/24
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240124T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240124T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
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SUMMARY:Flowers for Agouti: Epigenetics and the Genealogy of Uplift - Ben Woodard
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe notion of uplift has a science-fictional and social justice connotation: it is the raising up of one species by another as well as a historical (and often racially codified) way of speaking of how one group raises itself up above limiting structural conditions. While these notions seem disparate they in fact have a shared history that hybridizes fictional and non-fictional aspirations for future humanity as well as the  origins of civilization as such.\nThis talk examines how recent discussions of epigenetics complicates notions of a too hasty equation of cognition and agency both within humanity and across species that the concept of uplift as championed as an anti-Darwinian politics of Eurocentric teleology. \nThis event is part of our winter semester 2023/24 Lecture Series Lifelikeness. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evening-lecture-3/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024,Lecture Series 23/24
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240130T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240130T150000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20240118T145520Z
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SUMMARY:Unfelt Threshold: Patched Phase
DESCRIPTION:Live Art Installation and Conversation on “Fluctonomous Emergence” \nAbstract: \nUnfelt Threshold is a project in which Japanese artist Aoi Suwa is indirectly linking together various pieces of objects and images\, exhibiting the creations that she has produced over the years. As part of the project\, c:o/re Senior Fellow Masahiko Hara and Aoi Suwa will stage a live installation at RWTH Aachen University’s Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) and engage in a conversation on “Fluctonomous Emergence”\, a term coined by Masahiko Hara. His research focuses on the integration of art strategies in science and technology and introduces a new concept of natural intelligence based on the emergent functions of autonomous ambiguous systems that exhibit fluctuant behavior. \nThis project stems from the concept of “shiki-ik” (識閾\, the threshold of consciousness)\, the boundary where sensations and reactions occur in response to stimuli. The threshold through which transitions occur from the unconscious to the conscious\, and vice versa\, is the gateway of shifting between consciousness and unconsciousness. \nAoi Suwa continues to employ experimental techniques to create works focused on phenomena that can only be witnessed in situ\, developing what could be described as an approach aimed at perceiving thresholds that emerge through the process of traversing back and forth between the realms of the perceivable/imperceivable and conscious/unconscious. \nThrough this project\, we would like to explore its potential as a means of expressing the complexity and the lifelikeness of our current age and seek to reconsider our sustainable social systems surrounded by both living and non-living systems. \n  \nThe installation can be viewed until 22 February 2024 by prior registration with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/unfelt-threshold-patched-phase/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240207T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20240207T183000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20230726T123601Z
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SUMMARY:Bio-inspired Materials and Dreams of Inspiration - Michael Friedman
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nMaterials are found at the very center of our life\, situated in the complex zone between nature and society. In the recent decades\, new discoveries in the natural sciences and in the materials sciences have enabled to develop new materials\, so called ‘active materials’ and ‘Bio-inspired Materials’. These new materials are considered as entities that are able to ‘sense’ and respond to their environment. Furthermore they are not only associated with a technical claim\, but also with the hope that they can do ‘more with less’\, i.e. perform complex tasks\, but use fewer resources and produce less waste to do so. Such materials are considered new ‘ideal’ materials\, but they are materials that cannot be taken as such from nature as they have to be constructed in engineered in a sophisticated way. Nevertheless\, the model for these manufactured active materials is often organic materials found in nature\, such as the grown wood of trees and the bone formation in living organisms – and in this sense the scientists are ‘inspired’ by nature. The scientific analysis of these organic materials may lead to the fabrication of synthetic and bio-inspired active materials\, and this in turn raises the question – which I will discuss in my talk – whether the dream of inspiration from nature is not a revision of a much older view\, or rather metaphor\, to read and finally write the ‘book’ of nature. \nThis event is part of our winter semester 2023/24 Lecture Series Lifelikeness. \nTo take part either online or in presence\, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/evening-lecture-4/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais/Online\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Lecture Series 2024,Lecture Series 23/24
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240216T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240217T130000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230927
CREATED:20240213T132331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T102715Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop „Kunst\, Wissenschaft\, Öffentlichkeit“ / "Art\, Science\, the Public"
DESCRIPTION:The workshop takes place in cooperation with the project „Computer Signals: Art and Biology in the Age of Digital Experimentation“\, a research collaboration between artist\, biologist and the humanities. \nDuring the workshop\, different formats and practices of science communication\, specially those experimenting with artistic forms\, will be discussed. Furthermore\, there will be an installation format\, where the project Computer Signals presents their archive of sounds\, and in the evening an artistic sound exploration by the sound artist Valentina Vuksic. \nPlease find the programme of the workshop here.\nThe workshop will be completely held in German. \nIf you would like to attend\, please register with with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
URL:https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/workshop-kunst-wissenschaft-offentlichkeit-art-science-the-public/
LOCATION:Stadtpalais\, Theaterstraße 75\, Aachen\, 52062\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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