Impakt Works: The Crystalpunk Bonanza Of Origins, A Six Hour Search for the Origin of Life, Language and the Voices in our Head Speakers are the strange attractor of endophysics Otto Rössler, the Monty Cantsin of speculative programming Florian Cramer, the propagators of the CPU crash that dare not speak its name Martin Howse and Jonathan Kemp, the librarian of his own perpetual dovetailing programming machine Bruno Marchal, the inspirer of robot-glossolalia Luc Steels. This Event is organised by socialfiction.org and Impakt www.impakt.nl / www.socialfiction.org Date: Saturday January 13th/ 12:00 - 18:00 hours, doors open at: 11:30 uur Location: Moira, Wolvenstraat 10, Utrecht Entrance: free (high-tea for 5 euro) Reservations: info@impakt.nl / 030 2944493 Speaker summary: 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 publicised. 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')” |
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