Generelle Phänomene | 17.10.2017 | 19:00
3 presentations and a conversation to push associations and links between the presented topics.
3 Präsentationen und ein Gespräch mit Assoziationen und Querverbindung zwischen den vorgestellten Themen.
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Talks and discussion will be in english this time.
Vorträge und Gespräch finden diesmal auf Englisch statt.
#03: Decisions and drive. Floating in self-organisation.
Joel Wellbourne-Wood (Department of fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne) / Structure, function, life, and the emergence of spontaneous order.
Davor Löffler (Soziologist, Berlin) / Determinism, Self-Organization, Generativity: The History and Future of the Relation between Mind and Universe
Ursula Damm (Artist and currently professor at Bauhaus university Weimar) / Shared Habitats: Interfaces for Humans and Animals
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Structure, function, life, and the emergence of spontaneous order. | The emergence of order from chaos in an entropic universe is a curious phenomenon. From the level of single molecules to large scale social systems, self-organization allows for the dynamic interaction of functional constructs towards a predictable outcome, in a game where the motivations arise from singular insufficiency and the struggle to survive in a dangerous environment. Here we will look at some natural examples of patterning, form, and self-organization in the molecular world, cellular world, and in the realm of animal and human behavior. Finally, we will reflect on how this organization came about mechanistically, and how we might better understand it, and our relationship with it.
Joel Wellbourne-Wood is currently researching at the Department of fundamental Neurosciences at the University of Lausanne
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Determinism, Self-Organization, Generativity: The History and Future of the Relation between Mind and Universe | In this talk a newly emerging Weltverhältnis, the metaphysical paradigm of generativity, will be sketched out through a reconstruction of the history of mind, moving from the first signs of animal intelligence and the appearance of human sentience up to the threshold of posthuman cognitive agencies. This evolutionary and civilizational trajectory of the development of mind shows that mind is a realization of generative processes deeply embedded in the universe itself, and while these processes of generativity have reached a certain level of refinement in the human mind, they are not necessarily bound to the human organism as their sole medium.
Davor Löffler worked internationally in various research institutions, such as the “Mind Machine Project” at MIT and the "Interacting Minds Center", Aarhus. Currently he teaches at the interdisciplinary research platform “The New Center for Research and Practice”. His forthcoming book, Generative Realitäten. Zur Zeitform und Metaphysik der Technologischen Zivilisation, will be published by Springer in 2017.
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Shared Habitats: Interfaces for Humans and Animals | Contemporary art considers the artist and the audience as constitutional part of a creative act. Artworks are no longer mere objects, but rather processes, driven by the agency of things, humans and creatures. Interactivity and mutual interplay have become a pivotal element of current artistic practices.The planning of interactive settings and interfaces in art – other than in science projects or in interface design – does not follow a predefined aim or target. Art requires open minded experiments seeking for novel and authentic experiences – for both: the artist and the audience. Recent bioartistic artworks and experiments seek to explore the conditions of the cohabitation of animals, plants, and humans in a common environment. With her artworks Ursula Damm follow such a systemic approach, using biosemiotic feedback circles and cybernetic models. As an artist she is currently teaching at the Bauhaus University Weimar. http://ursuladamm.de/
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