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[Nettime-nl] Crystalpunk Bonanza of Origins - 13 jan 2007 |
Crystalpunk Bonanza of Origins http://socialfiction.org/index.php?insert=bonanza.html Time: Saturday, 13 January 2007, 11.30-18.00 Place: Moira, Wolvenplein 10, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Free entrance (a 5euro lunch will be available) with Luc Steels, Otto Rossler, Florian Cramer, Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp, Bruno marchal Crystalpunk is a panoply of ideas revolving around the same few Wandering Stars: the Game of Go and the Game of Life, the origin of language and the origin of mind, the suspected but never-realised capabilities of mind, matter, memory and computers whispered into your inner ear by unknown writers and succumbi, the power of abstraction and a melancholy for the noise lost, the BacterioPoetic and the cybernetic writing machine envisaged by Italo Calvino and William S. Burroughs. Currently, supported by the local Media-Art institution Impakt, we are compiling our projected collected philosophy of Crystalpunk into a book, to be released to the public in March 2007. As part of this process of writing we have been given the opportunity to find inspiration and climb many wonderful vistas of thinking by organising a one-day symposium. For this we have compiled a varied groups of speakers who have proven to possess (perhaps to their own amazement) insights fruitful to the Crystalpunk imagination. Speakers: Luc Steels is professor at the AI lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and he has been an active participant in nearly all developments in this field for the last 30 years. What makes him especially interesting for the Crystalpunk is his wide ranging interest in ?origins?. The origins of intelligence, the origins of social behaviour and most of all, revealing his background in linguistics, the origin of language. It is on aspects of the latter that he will speak. http://arti.vub.ac.be/steels Florian Cramer has been for over a decade been the most eloquent proponent of speculative programming. His interest range from ancient number-magic to renaissance hermetical philosophy to the avant-gardes of the 20th century. In 2005 he published ?Words made Flesh? his grand expose of the historical roots of modern-day soft- and hardware. http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/fcramer/wordsmadeflesh http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70 AP (Martin Howse and Jonathan Kemp) are responsible for an ongoing series of events under the heading of XXXXX. Traversing the fringes of art and science, these International Crashes are a work in progress, with artefacts like expended software, the reverse engineering of Kekulé, Flip-Flop time-machines and the artistic CPU, left behind on the ground like the fallen breadcrumbs after a naked lunch of gothic engineering. Rewriting history their are inventing their own future. http://1010.co.uk Bruno Marchal is a research fellow at Brussel?s AI-institute Iridia. His Dovetailer is a introspective universal machine of which the intellectual history begins with the ancient philosopher Plotinus. It is the computational Library of Babel folded into a zoo of interpreters, together creating an infinite number of programs of which you, there is no way of telling it is not so, can be one. And somewhere along these lines theology is implicated and consensus reality is reduced to a play with words. http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/%7emarchal/ Otto Rössler has under his belt, amongst others, a strange attractor that carries his name and a brain-equation. His work spans decades, and time after time he has shown up where the fire of discovery was at its brightest to make his contribution, chaos theory being only the most publised. Currently he is working on Endophysics, or physics from within: a far-ranging philosophy that enfolds from the mediations of Descartes as the x-ray eyes that demands us to learn to see through the magic carpet of Quantum Mechanics. His biggest unfinished project however is not a scientific theory but the foundation of Lampsacus, a semi-mythical v-town that once established would offer free education to all. As a possible title for his talk is ?Leap into the True Reality; post-Cartesian, Post-Fröbelian, Post-Teilhardian, post-Everettian, post-Disneyian. (with or without the 'posts')?. ------------------------- The Future was my First Love [And it Will be My Last] http://socialfiction.org ------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________ * Verspreid via nettime-nl. Commercieel gebruik niet * toegestaan zonder toestemming. <nettime-nl> is een * open en ongemodereerde mailinglist over net-kritiek. * Meer info, archief & anderstalige edities: * http://www.nettime.org/. * Contact: Menno Grootveld (rabotnik@xs4all.nl).