Research Updates . 10th July

PLANETARY COLLEGIUM CAiiA-HUB SUMMER 2010 COMPOSITE SESSION PLYMOUTH

Research Updates . 10th July

Luis Girao
- I consider brain as an interface (Girão)
- Roy Ascott considerations:
* (on the importance of going beyond the material) there are vibration that generates tissues; how about holistic fields?

Kathrine Anker
1- Philosophy is a forward directed, generative modus operandi (like art, except philosophy is linguistically based, semantic relations)
I'm not doing philosophy than what am I doing?
2- the relation between 'the epistemological turn', and my choice of a philosofical canon:
*cybersemiotics Soren Brier)
philosophy of physics (david bohm, Milo Wolf, ritjof Capra
philosophy of art (brian massumi)
text philosophy (jay david bolter)
the project: her project has a lot to concern with the process of constructing texts.

- subjectivity studies with focuses on consciousness and a focus on the intersecting point between theory of quantum coherence and consciusness in human subjects.

Epistemological turn:
- Giuseppe Longo
- technology production and use = knowledge and generation
- bricolage as a methode (Derrida)
- Intuition, feeling and experiment becomes central
- Is science a histo-cultural 'state' that is soon to be over?

the practical part:
- how to make semantic meaning relations by the use of links; levels of recursiveness;
- a setting of transformed space-time relations (in our minds) transforms the way we construct the text
- a transformation of basic assumptions connected to the material world view into a world view of the wave space medium, transforms many relations that we take for granted - or the vocabulary we use to describe them, or the way we relate them to particular contexts.

Jaromil Rojo / Crowd Economy
projects:
- Massive Multiplayer Online RPG (World of Warcraft; Second Life; OpenSIM; etc.
- virtual reality architecture
- virtual miners

he is using 'functional transformation' to describe waht is happening in social interaction online an production what is happening in the game realm; money is a territory, is a public space;

ULML (User Labor Markup Language based on XML syntax) qualify the interaction people have in social networks

- using peter edmunds (Swarm Sketch)as an example // (to discuss the asserion: everyone is an artist)
- and Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July (Learning to love you more)
- and Davy Rothbart (Found Magazine)
- and Allison Wiese (Artists' Cookbook)
- Wolfgang von Kempelen (Mechanical Turk; Maezel's Chess Player)

image recognition will be substituted by artificial inteligence; humans are behind pseudo automation;

projects:
- tales from the flexitariat
future directions:
- monetary systems;
- public domain
- hermeneutics
- praxeology
- patents


my notes:
The Myth of Quantum Consciousness (Victor J. Stenger)