Description
Tim Knowles’ Tree Drawings and Theo Jansen’s Beach Animals are artistic explorations of non-organic intelligence and agency. They are highly imaginative art projects that suggest an understanding of agency and intelligence as emerging from possibilities for enactment. They invite a rethinking of agency and intelligence from a nonanthropocentric perspective and as grounded in materiality. The issues addressed, and questions raised, by these analogue and relatively low tech art projects are remarkably similar to some of the issues and questions we find ourselves confronted with in the face of current high tech developments made possible by digital technology, thus confirming observations by Mark Hansen, N.Katherine Hayles and others, that the challenge posed by these technological developments is not only that of the emergence of new kinds of intelligence but also that of having to rethink fundamental human centered assumptions about intelligence and agency. This seminar aims to contribute to such rethinking starting from Knowles’ and Jansen’s artistic proposals and the relationships between these speculations on non-organic intelligence, and similar explorations in the field of robotics and other intelligent systems by Charles Anderson and Jondi Keane (Technics & Touch: Body-Matter-Machine) and John McCormic and Steph Hutchinson (Emergence). This will be followed by a discussion with Jondi Keane and John McCormic.| Period | 12 Jul 2016 |
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| Event title | Tree Drawings, Beach Animals, Drawing Robts and Dancing Avatars: Some Speculations on Non-Organic Intelligence |
| Event type | Seminar |
| Location | Melbourne, AustraliaShow on map |