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DeepAesthetics
No full text‘DeepAesthetics’ explores a new kind of formalism accompanying the artificial intelligence (AI) that has emerged in the wake of deep neural networking. The massive deployment of images as, for example, training datasets, as attribute sources and as discriminators to solve ‘problems’ of classification and recognition has resulted in a shift in where and how ‘value’ and ‘judgement’ are aesthetically located and construed. ‘Aestheticians’ and an ‘autopoeitic’ visual aesthetics are now issuing
forth from the research and development arms of upcoming corporate players in the AI domain such as NVidia
Signaletic Immediations:sensing new media as relational events and ecologies (guest talk for 'Immediations' at Aarhus University, Denmark)
No full textIn Ulf Langheinrich’s LAND (2008), waves of digital matter slowly wash over our augmented vision as a distant yet somehow familiar landscape is co-composed across signals and bodies, space and duration. The ‘image’ transmission here consists of composites of recordings of waves breaking on shore, overlaid by algorithmically generated noise and then polarised so that the image divides into cyan and red fields that require the work of perceptual re-interpolation. Played back and viewed via stereoscopic glasses, the environment produced in LAND seemingly settles as a classic optical ‘illusion’ of three-dimensional, immersive space luring the eye toward its imaginary digital shore.
Yet what is increasingly clear in such environments – and further in many sonic spaces dealing with very low frequency or other infrahuman signaletic spectra – is that a vocabulary of ‘mediation’, ‘illusion’, or even the invocation to a single sensory modality such as ‘vision’, do not adequately meet the co-compositional events that sustain their ecologies. Such co-composition lies not only between media and (human) perception but in durational re- and dephasings that become complexly inhabited by pulsations of signaletic (nonlinear, machinic and flux) time. In this chapter, I explore an emerging set of concepts such as ‘immediation’ and ‘signaletic’ that may help us come to term with the eventfulness and ecologies of these new (im)mediating spaces and environments
The Feeling of the Wave (in 5 movements)
No full textMichele Barker will trace a creative genealogy between early moving image devices such as the praxinoscope and contemporary digital installations. Arguing that such devices are relational movement machines, Barker will explore more preindivduated perception from which moving bodies and media arise. Her talk will focus on her recent installation évasion (with Munster, 2014)
Dorothea Coenen, Die katholische Kirche am Niederrhein von der Reformation bis zum Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts, Coll. « Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte », n° 93. Munster, Aschendorff, 1967
No full textVogler Bernard. Dorothea Coenen, Die katholische Kirche am Niederrhein von der Reformation bis zum Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts, Coll. « Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte », n° 93. Munster, Aschendorff, 1967. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 55e année n°2,1975. pp. 322-323
Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera
No full textIn this very special episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by beloved New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Witi has written many books featuring nonhuman animals. He offers us a non-colonial lens through which to think about the human/nonhuman relationship
I Think I Am Philip K. Dick
No full textFor years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dickthough in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writers work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks , it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dicks writing as well as a recognition of Rickelss own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick , a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick explores the science fiction authors meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dicks science fiction, Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dicks popular and influential science fiction.Intro -- Contents -- Introjection -- Part I -- Endopsychic Allegories -- Schreber Guardian -- Belief System Surveillance -- Part II -- Deeper Problems -- Veil of Tears -- Go West -- Dick Manfred -- Timing -- Glimmung -- Part III -- Spiritualism Analogy -- Imitating the Dead -- Indexical Layer -- Ilse -- Hammers and Things -- Crucifictions -- Over There -- Martyrology -- Can't Live, Can't Live -- Lola -- Umwelt, Mitwelt, and Eigenwelt -- Outer Race -- The German Introject -- Part IV -- Materialism, Idealism, and Cybernetics -- Startling Stories -- A Couple of Years -- Android Empathy -- Homunculus and Robot -- ALL OF YOU ARE DEAD. I AM ALIVE. -- Go with the Flow -- Part V -- Room for Thought -- Caduceus -- Jump -- Still -- A Wake -- Spätwerk -- Let the Dead Be -- Play Bally -- Das Hund -- Notes -- BibliographyFor years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dickthough in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writers work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks , it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dicks writing as well as a recognition of Rickelss own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick , a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick explores the science fiction authors meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dicks science fiction, Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dicks popular and influential science fiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Transmateriality: Toward an Energetics of Signal in Contemporary Mediatic Assemblages
Get PDFThis article focuses on signal as an aspect of modern technicity that precedes—or supersedes—codification. Examining DIY drone videos found on YouTube and the video art of Nam June Paik, among other sources, the article explores how each tests the flow of signal and signal processing as forms of transmateriality and transduction. the author draws particularly on the work of Gilbert Simondon and Adrian Mackenzie
The mutable face: From Electrocution to microexpression in facial regimes
No full textThis article focuses upon the ways in which the neurosciences intersect with psychology, and how, together with imaging technologies and techniques of identification, these come to comprise a complex and contemporary field of ‘faciality’. The article refers to work by the authors/artists, Michele Barker and Anna Munster, who look at the ways in which the face and scientific imaging combine to create this shifting field. Here we explore the historical links between the early natural and medical sciences of the nineteenth century and contemporary obsessions with facial symmetry and ‘genuine’ facial expression found in neuropsychology and neural marketing. The article draws upon the history of facial expression as this works its way through the early medical photographic images of hysterics’ faces in Charles Darwin’s The Expression of Emotions in Man and the Animals. Ideas about the face as a site for the expression of genuine and staged emotion germinating in early neuroscience have now become part of the analysis of cultural and social phenomena such as Barak Obama’s presidential campaign of 2008. In the video installation, Duchenne’s Smile (2009) we make these historical and contemporary links, examining emerging paradigms for how we are imaging identity now at the intersection of expression, technologies and issues of securitisation
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