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With this jubilation we introduce the volume and discuss its topics with focus on dualisms and monism and what might they mean for our environments, technology, politics and our co-beings- material and immaterial. >> Read more

SSSP was conceived by Kristiina Koskentola and Institute for Provocation (IFP) and is generously being hosted by the Goethe-Institut, Beijing. >> Read more

Lecture 1: Turing Testing: Distinguishing Man from Machine Speakers: Korean Art Collective Shinseungback Kimyonghun and Dr. Anna Greenspan, moderated by Rebecca Catching Saturday, April 1, 2017, 2-3:30 OCAT Shanghai 30 Wen’an Lu, Jing’an District, Shanghai In 1950, computer scientist Alan Turing developed a test to determine if computers were able to exhibit intelligent behavior. A […] >> Read more

From the very first moment that a “cave man” picked up a piece of flint to carve and cut meat 3.6 million years ago humans have become reliant on a growing number of tools >> Read more

The last two decades of precipitous change have provided much grist for recent exhibitions, artist talks, and essays. The pre-eminence of digital technologies in society, the unpredictable advances in biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence, and irreversible environmental degradation encapsulated under the banner of the Anthropocene all speak to a certain disquiet towards unproblematic notions of progress. >> Read more

Titled As We May Think, Feedforward, extending this seminal text’s far-reaching ramifications into the artistic domain as a way to reflect on the trajectories of technological advances and their reverberations throughout the social sphere over the past decades, the 6th edition of Guangzhou Triennial seeks to address the multiple implications engendered by such a technologically constructed time-space - in the real and through the virtual - by examining creative endeavors both from geographical purviews and from cosmic prospects in responding to the challenges and opportunities at stake and to think, once again, through a new alliance of visions by humans and nonhumans alike, machines and flesh with equal footing, organic and inorganic hand in hand, an alternative outlook for a new possibility of ecology whereby a retooled humanism may thrive in a Parliament of Things (to borrow a term from Bruno Latour) in symbiosis and reciprocity. >> Read more

Ancient forms of punishment that involve bodily dismemberment were considered “inhumane” and thus abolished. In comparison, in the effort to challenge norms regulating common conceptions of humanity, many contemporary artworks often take up “dehumanizing” positions >> Read more

In this lecture, Cecilia WU proposes the first scientific methodology of examining action (body)/perception (sound) mappings and DMI design in the context of EVP from the audience’s perspective. >> Read more

(中文) 在学术界，革命和激进的思想是通过与学者和学术传统的某种约定（engagement）实现的，而这些学者和传统则来自于受到册封的过去。当代人阅读、或者更为通常的情形是重读旧文，从而产生了无法落入这些文本之主流被接受情形的“新”解读。 >> Read more

Insects are more than creepy-crawly bugs; they are also a central reference point of so much of network culture, from talk of hive minds and distributed networks to algorithms that function like ant colonies; some refer to our cognitive capitalist practices as “pollen society”. >> Read more