Synthesis Center at ASU

10/29/2025

https://www.ciid.dk/news/open-lecture-rhythm-and-gestural-media

New post from CIID titled "OPEN LECTURE: Sha Xin Wei, Rhythm and Gestural Media" posted

09/11/2024

Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age 2024: The Magic Machine, Through the Prism of
Art and Science
Faculty of Music, Cambridge University
19-20 September 2024

Jointly sponsored by AI & Society Journal and the Center for Music and Science

Padlet으로 만듦

08/27/2024

Barbara Formis in her essay "Thinking Gestures" (Open Philosophy, 2023) refers to an amazing work by Yvonne Rainer: Trio A (1966). "I have manifested a kind of effort where it is traditionally concealed, and I concealed phrasing where it is traditionally deployed.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vHqIMFDbQI

Her movement cannot be segmented without killing the sense of the movement. … a beautiful continuous, plenist example of Deleuze's intensity…

An amazing piece.Yvonne Rainer was from the litter of artists who recorded the beginning of the postmodern period of dance in the early 1960s in New York, an...

08/13/2024

Eric Russell: "[In] the words of Karl Kraus, it remains the case, beyond Debord’s own period of postwar prosperity, that some things are so wrong that not even their opposite is true."

https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/5019-nothing-is-any-longer-the-opposite-of-anything-guy-debord-s-the-society-of-the-spectacle-today

07/06/2024

And check this out
✨ The Fyrthyr Institute for Unsettling Technologies ! ✨

https://www.thefyrthyr.org/

"The Fyrthyr Institute for Unsettling Technologies is a cultural production studio that designs infrastructures to advance planetary health and well-being.
We bring decolonial know-how and know-why to bear on problems that are administrative, technical, architectural, and inter-personal.

Our team has a wealth of experience working with organizations and movements engaged in land based wealth redistribution and introducing decolonial ethics into the global engagement practices of institutions of higher education.

As cultural strategists, our aim is to educate, enhance lives, empower communities, and build a better world for all peoples and species."

with Muindi Fanuel Muindi and fellow travelers!

07/06/2024

Check this out!

Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines is an artist-run platform at the nexus of art, technology, and contemporary thought.

CCAM’s primary goal is building an accessible community for the development and sharing of abstract ideas and forms of technical know-how, know-when, and know-why historically siloed in academia. Reciprocally, CCAM aims to hybridize the art, technology, and research cultures it borrows from the academy by drawing on and inviting in q***r, anti-racist, and decolonial perspectives. By intentionally developing this community outside of the academy, CCAM seeks to break down barriers to access for engaging in art, technology, and surrounding critical theory.

https://ccam.world/

With Garrett L. Johnson, Kim Nucci, Muindi Fanuel Muindi ✨

Nomadically based in Chicago, CCAM is an artist-run platform at the nexus of art, technology, and contemporary thought.

06/22/2024

We invite submissions of abstracts (max 1000 words) for The Magic Machine: Through the Prism of Art and Science, Cambridge University, 19/20 September, 2024! Deadline July 15th.

The Call:

We have reached a crossroads in our relations and conceptions of machines and the impacts this is having on us as social and creative beings.

Does AI have agency?
What is the human agency in AI?
Where is AI agency in human life?
What is the relation between the idea of agency and the idea of interaction?
How do we re-balance the relationship between humanity and the machine?
Are we facing a new ‘normal’? Judgement to calculation, from comprehension to competence.

As we anthropomorphise the ‘interactions’ we have with and via AI tools and robots, ascribing to them intelligence, sense-making, and emotion, we may be unknowingly reconfiguring ourselves to fit the AI tools that are promoted to fit to us. We see the consequences of this in society at large, for example, in how our engagement with social media is creating fractures as algorithms make it hard for us to hear and move with expressions of difference, polyvalence.

What is needed is values for critical thinking, a diversity of cultural perspectives and practices from across the arts and sciences to overcome the belief in the magic machine, and design policies for common good.

Fundamentally, we ask, how is the shift from personalization to personification of algorithmic technologies affecting our social ability to navigate indeterminacy- that which cannot be modelled in advance, and deal with that which is not represented, with the tacit, or the excluded?

Indicative Themes:

Well-being : self-reflection vs social mediation vs hapticality – feeling the world through others
Creativity: Individual— Collective / ensemble
Political economy and Social impacts
Augment vs Automate ?
Embodiment and corporeal engagement
Immersive technology and virtual worlds
Aesthetization of the artificial
Neuroscience and collective action, intention, experience
Ethical governance
Culture of the artificial
Dialogue and Certainty
Representing vs Modelling vs Enacting

We welcome contributions from across the fields of the arts, social sciences, humanities, healthcare, sciences, and technology.

Accepted contributions will be part of a special issue of the AI&Society Journal, with Guest Co-Editors Satinder Gill and Sha Xin-Wei.

Deadlines:
Monday 15 July 2024 - Submission of extended abstracts (max 1K words)
Wednesday 17 July 2024 – Confirmation of accepted abstracts

Submissions and queries: Satinder Gill - [email protected]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hT-8lyYizO-irA4EGt9I4s-oyxkdO_LS/view?usp=drive_link