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, …
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