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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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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
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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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