Abstract: New 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 …
Abstract: The 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 …
Live Art Installation and Conversation on “Fluctonomous Emergence” Abstract: Unfelt 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 …
Abstract: Materials 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 …
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. During 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, …
Live performance on the audification of data and computer processes The artistic research project „Computer Signals: Art and Biology in the Age of Digital Experimentation“ by Prof. Hannes Rickli at the University of Arts in Zürich engages with digital data work as audible and experienceable. On Friday, the 16th of February 2024, at 7:30pm at …
Metascience is often defined as the scientific investigation of science itself with the aim to improve science. This ‘improving’ part of metascience has been called a reform movement. While the intention to improve science is generally laudable, metascience and the associated movement(s) are not without their critics. The metascience reform movement has for instance, been …
Organizer: Hans Ekkehard Plesser Computational neuroscience, the field dedicated to understanding brain function through modelling, is dominated by small ad hoc models of neuronal networks designed to explain individual research questions. Such models are frequently implemented in low-level programming languages (e.g. C++, Matlab, Python) and at best shared as collections of source code files. By …
From 22 to 25 April 2024, the experimental conference “Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness & beyond” will take place in Aachen, which seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields across the sciences, technology and the arts to develop imaginaries for possibilities that are still to be realized and new …
Keynote “Politics of the Machines” Conference Abstract: This talk is about quite ordinary matters, such as the prevention of perishability in rubbers and oils, and how one makes a non-dairy creamer that lasts without refrigeration. Yet these are also extraordinary matters. The harvesting and remobilization of metabolically powerful objects and processes proceeded apace in the …
As part of the conference Politics of the Machines: Lifelikeness & beyond, a cooperation with the Performing Arts Centre PACT Zollverein in Essen is planned for Friday, 26 April, and Saturday, 27 April 2024. With ›life.like‹, PACT invites you to an experiential, installative, and discursive journey that questions and transcends the boundaries between machines, objects, …
This event is part of our summer semester 2024 Lecture Series Lifelikeness. If you would like to attend, please write a short email to events@khk.rwth-aachen.de.
Käte Hamburger Kolleg:
Cultures of Research (c:o/re)
Theaterstraße 75
52062 Aachen
