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| ==== Machine Wilderness Symposium ==== | ==== Machine Wilderness Symposium ==== |
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| Amsterdam, Artis, 20151102 | Amsterdam, Artis Royal Zoo, 20151102 |
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| Machine Wilderness: new ecosystems where environment & technology co-exist, in which humans are less central | {{:actlist_22192965105_a6cc8342bc_o.jpg}} |
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| | [[machine_wilderness]] |
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| | [[Lecture notes]] from the [[http://fo.am/mwsymposium/|symposium]], part of the [[http://machinewilderness.net/|Machine Wilderness]] programme designed by Theun Karelse of FoAM Amsterdam and Alice Smits of [[http://zone2source.net/nl/home/|Zone2Source]] |
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| [[https://twitter.com/search?q=%23machinewilderness%20&src=typd|#machinewilderness]] / | [[https://twitter.com/search?q=%23machinewilderness%20&src=typd|#machinewilderness]] / |
| Designing towards cohabitation & intimacy | Designing towards cohabitation & intimacy |
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| * e.g. exhibition of microbes & micro-organisms | * e.g. exhibition of microbes & micro-organisms |
| * Het [[http://www.artis.nl/ontdek-artis/artis-a-z/monumenten-z/hoofdgebouw/|Groote Museum]] - first museum in NL (1852) - in the future, a museum, a workplace for the antropocene (started in 1600 - colonialism, 1900 - industrialisation…), for man and nature, platform for discussion & exchange; where do we stand as humans on the earth; galleries on nature, science and technology, biomimicry, the future (cyborgs, replacements of nature…); laboratory nature - nature managed by man (manipulating genetics, etc.) | * Het [[http://www.artis.nl/ontdek-artis/artis-a-z/monumenten-z/hoofdgebouw/|Groote Museum]] - first museum in NL (1852) - in the future, a museum, a workplace for the anthropocene (started in 1600 - colonialism, 1900 - industrialisation…), for man and nature, platform for discussion & exchange; where do we stand as humans on the earth; galleries on nature, science and technology, biomimicry, the future (cyborgs, replacements of nature…); laboratory nature - nature managed by man (manipulating genetics, etc.) |
| * E. Wilson "the artificial new environment into which technology has catapulted humanity" - what does this mean? (e.g. natural disasters, infrastructure failures (New York blackout in the storm in 2012)) | * E. Wilson "the artificial new environment into which technology has catapulted humanity" - what does this mean? (e.g. natural disasters, infrastructure failures (New York blackout in the storm in 2012)) |
| * wilderness = 1st nature, cultural landscape (agriculture) - 2nd nature, designed nature (gardens, urban environments) - 3rd nature | * wilderness = 1st nature, cultural landscape (agriculture) - 2nd nature, designed nature (gardens, urban environments) - 3rd nature |
| * we need a new language to describe interactions between machines and environments | * we need a new language to describe interactions between machines and environments |
| * the etymology of the word machine = "device", "instruments", "apparatus", "machine a habiter"… | * the etymology of the word machine = "device", "instruments", "apparatus", "machine a habiter"… |
| * "wilderness" = "community of life untrammeled by man where man himself is a visitor, not to remain" - this changes in the antropocene | * "wilderness" = "community of life untrammeled by man where man himself is a visitor, not to remain" - this changes in the anthropocene |
| * city as metabolism - a new relationship between town and landscape - hybrid landscapes - deserted industrial locations, landfill reclamation… | * city as metabolism - a new relationship between town and landscape - hybrid landscapes - deserted industrial locations, landfill reclamation… |
| * avoid confusions with pre-modern and mechanistic views | * avoid confusions with pre-modern and mechanistic views |
| * finding a way to talk about hybrids, co-operation between technology and nature - a common vitality in reclaiming aesthetics as a process and not an object in the tangle of tech and nature - including philosophy, ethics, morals - responsibility of human nature towards non human nature | * finding a way to talk about hybrids, co-operation between technology and nature - a common vitality in reclaiming aesthetics as a process and not an object in the tangle of tech and nature - including philosophy, ethics, morals - responsibility of human nature towards non human nature |
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| === Petran Kockelkoren === | === Petran Kockelkoren === |
| * Futurist Giacomo Balla - attempting to change perspective and coin new imaginaries for speed - we needed to re-normalise our senses - images and sounds help us cope with the new experiences… | * Futurist Giacomo Balla - attempting to change perspective and coin new imaginaries for speed - we needed to re-normalise our senses - images and sounds help us cope with the new experiences… |
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| * pop-art - streaks in comics - speeding cars | * pop-art - streaks in comics - speeding cars |
| * zootrope - suggesting movement, children’s toys, artistic expression, scientific simulation of birds in flight (Max Ernst) - disclosing the world by means of technology changes our perception and sensory experience | * zootrope - suggesting movement, children’s toys, artistic expression, scientific simulation of birds in flight (Max Ernst) - disclosing the world by means of technology changes our perception and sensory experience |
| * Muybridge - horses galloping - are they ever free from the ground (yes) | * Muybridge - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEqccPhsqgA|horses galloping]] - are they ever free from the ground (yes) |
| * Stereoscope - photograph with two different focus points - the world available in stereo - photographers began experimenting with focal points (depth, 'enhanced stereos' - issue with veracity); Bishop - if God wanted us to see this depth, he would have given us eyes further apart…; Scientific photo of the moon - very difficult (distance, etc.), but there is a wobble in the moon (the photos were taken 3 weeks apart) - "a step out of and beyond nature" - but it disclosed the possibility to view the moon much more intimately - a mediated view of nature, with a more intimate and immersive knowledge - a breakthrough in the view of technology | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscope|Stereoscope]] - photograph with two different focus points - the world available in stereo - photographers began experimenting with focal points (depth, 'enhanced stereos' - issue with veracity); Bishop - if God wanted us to see this depth, he would have given us eyes further apart…; Scientific photo of the moon - very difficult (distance, etc.), but there is a wobble in the moon (the photos were taken 3 weeks apart) - "a step out of and beyond nature" - but it disclosed the possibility to view the moon much more intimately - a mediated view of nature, with a more intimate and immersive knowledge - a breakthrough in the view of technology |
| * Tintin - "destination Moon" - actual rockets and clothing inspired by Herge’ comic; project Tintin insterstellar nanosat mission to alpha centauri - Alan Bean (astronaut) - "the only artist who has been to the moon", painting with moon-dust | * Tintin - "destination Moon" - actual rockets and clothing inspired by Herge’ comic; project Tintin insterstellar nanosat mission to alpha centauri - [[http://www.alanbean.com/|Alan Bean]] (astronaut) - "the only artist who has been to the moon", painting with moon-dust |
| * Andrea Polli (tracking data of hurricane Bob -> "Atmospheric Weatherworks" acoustic artwork to understand nature on its own terms, complex rhythms and melodies of nature on human scale) & Gavin Starks (translated data from telescope images into sounds - soothing synth sounds - a deception; but the image itself is mediated already (radiowaves translated into image)) discussion at DEAF 2004 - we are always embedded in cultural and historical incorporations of technology - nature is always a mediated event | * Andrea Polli (tracking data of hurricane Bob -> [[http://transmediale.de/andrea-polli-talks-about-her-atmospheric-weather-w|Atmospheric Weatherworks]] - acoustic artwork to understand nature on its own terms, complex rhythms and melodies of nature on human scale) & Gavin Starks (translated data from telescope images into sounds - soothing synth sounds - a deception; but the image itself is mediated already (radiowaves translated into image)) discussion at [[http://v2.nl/events/open_brunch-sonic-pulse|DEAF 2004]] - we are always embedded in cultural and historical incorporations of technology - nature is always a mediated event |
| * Husserl "an experience of nature is always artificial" - documentaries - mediated, staged, interpreted events | * Husserl "an experience of nature is always artificial" - documentaries - mediated, staged, interpreted events |
| * Esther Polak - GPS traces through the city "Amsterdam Real Time" (2002) - the mediated event - sky-drawing, "Milk", fishing boats - different stories emerge than when we look at photographs - new positioning of artists in the field, just breaking ground | * [[http://www.polakvanbekkum.nl/|Esther Polak]] - GPS traces through the city "Amsterdam Real Time" (2002) - the mediated event - sky-drawing, "Milk", fishing boats - different stories emerge than when we look at photographs - new positioning of artists in the field, just breaking ground |
| * 3D projections in cinemas, art galleries - contemporary fairgrounds to exercise new perceptions | * 3D projections in cinemas, art galleries - contemporary fairgrounds to exercise new perceptions |
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| * "surveillance company for nature" - military algorithms not open sourced | * "surveillance company for nature" - military algorithms not open sourced |
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| === Xavier San Giorgi === | === Xavier San Giorgi === |
| * How do you design a food forest for a city scape? In recreation areas, plants that aren’t commercially viable, that are difficult to harvest industrially | * How do you design a food forest for a city scape? In recreation areas, plants that aren’t commercially viable, that are difficult to harvest industrially |
| * [[http://www.foodforestry.nl/#!vbamb/cv7e|Voedselbos Makeblijde]] | * [[http://www.foodforestry.nl/#!vbamb/cv7e|Voedselbos Makeblijde]] |
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| * Karim van Wonderen + Sophia Molpheta "De Zeeuwse Tong Project" - "ont-poldering" - nature + agriculture - "saline landscapes", transition between sea and the land, more biodiversity + more fish yield | * Karim van Wonderen + Sophia Molpheta "De Zeeuwse Tong Project" - "ont-poldering" - nature + agriculture - "saline landscapes", transition between sea and the land, more biodiversity + more fish yield |
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| === Spela Petric === | {{:cszer-yxaaattny.jpg}} |
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| in projects like & Miserable Machines, Voyager 140 AU (2013) - metabolic algorithm in interaction with the environment; PSX consultancy 2014, sex toys for plants; Skotopoiesis (2015) confronting the vegetal otherness - how we comprehend the environment, biosemiosis; [[http://www.spelapetric.org/portfolio/naval-gazing/|Naval Gazing]] | === Špela Petrič === |
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| | [[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674034853|Reified Nature]] / Natured Technology |
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| | ... in projects including Miserable Machines (2015), [[http://www.spelapetric.org/portfolio/voyager-140-au/|Voyager 140 AU]] (2013) - metabolic algorithm in interaction with the environment; [[http://psx-consultancy.com/|PSX consultancy]], sex toys for plants (2014); [[http://www.spelapetric.org/portfolio/skotopoiesis/|Skotopoiesis]] (2015) confronting the vegetal otherness - how we comprehend the environment, biosemiosis; [[http://www.spelapetric.org/portfolio/naval-gazing/|Naval Gazing]] |
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| Naval Gazing (is navel gazing) | Naval Gazing (is navel gazing) |
| * Inspirations: Strandbeest (Theo Janssens) and others | * Inspirations: Strandbeest (Theo Janssens) and others |
| * Habiton - Man-made future habitat moved by the wind - it tumbles through the ocean and collects organisms/biomass, eventually it sinks to the bottom; human made object appropriated by nature | * Habiton - Man-made future habitat moved by the wind - it tumbles through the ocean and collects organisms/biomass, eventually it sinks to the bottom; human made object appropriated by nature |
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| Miserable Machines | Miserable Machines |
| * Differences between technology and living organisms - | * Differences between technology and living organisms |
| * "Soot-o-mat" Mussel muscle - ultimate sacrifice of living tissue for the production of 'excess' - soot-o-mat | * "Soot-o-mat" Mussel muscle - ultimate sacrifice of living tissue for the production of 'excess' - soot-o-mat |
| * Hybridity is a slippery slope - sometimes things should be respected for what they are rather than being forced to 'hybridise' | * Hybridity is a slippery slope - sometimes things should be respected for what they are rather than being forced to 'hybridise' |
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| === Guszti Eiben === | === Guszti Eiben === |
| * application: breeding farm for service robots or pets, entertainment (robotic parcs…); robot colonies for terraforming or ultra deep mining | * application: breeding farm for service robots or pets, entertainment (robotic parcs…); robot colonies for terraforming or ultra deep mining |
| * science: "cyclotron for evolution", understanding life, evolution of body & brain, robosphere | * science: "cyclotron for evolution", understanding life, evolution of body & brain, robosphere |
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| | In Nature: [[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7553/full/nature14544.html|From evolutionary computation to the evolution of things]] |
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| * workshop on symbiotic systems, using Amstelpark as a medium, exploring the needs and opportunities of biorobotic systems (abiotic systems - solar, temp, wind, water + biotic systems (plants, animals, bacteria); creating systems to enter a dialogue with the environment - integrated interdependent systems | * workshop on symbiotic systems, using Amstelpark as a medium, exploring the needs and opportunities of biorobotic systems (abiotic systems - solar, temp, wind, water + biotic systems (plants, animals, bacteria); creating systems to enter a dialogue with the environment - integrated interdependent systems |
| * energy systems | * energy systems |
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| === Judith van der Elst === | === Judith van der Elst === |
| * [[http://www.kschroeder.com/weblog/the-deepening-paradox|Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature]] - Karl Schroeder | * [[http://www.kschroeder.com/weblog/the-deepening-paradox|Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature]] - Karl Schroeder |
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| | === References === |
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| | * Research is Ceremony, Indigenous Research Methods, by Shawn Wilson |
| | * Tending the Wild, Native american Knowledge and The Management of California's Natural Resources, by Kat Anderson |
| | * Wired Wilderness, Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife, by Etienne Benson |
| | * Wildlife in the Anthropocene, Conservation after Nature, by Jamie Lorimer |
| | * Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing, by Ian Bogost |
| | * Nature Performed, Environemt, Culture and Performance, ed. Bronislaw Szerszynski et all |
| | * How Things Shape The Mind, A Theory of Material Engagement, Lambros Malafouris |
| | * How Forests Think, Towards an Anthropology beyond the Human, by Eduardo Kohn |
| | * Media, Ecology and Conservation, Using the media to protect the world's wildlife and ecosystems, by John Blewitt |
| | * The Marvelous Clouds, Towards a Philosophy of Elemental Media, by John Durham Peters |
| | * Becoming Animal, An Earthly Cosmology, by David Abram |
| | * CowCam, Kuhe fotografieren ihre Welt, by Christoph Sigrist |
| | * Drone, by Adam Rothstein, part of the Object Lessons series |
| | * Wilder Mann, the image of the savage, by Charles Freger |
| | * The Sympathy of Things, Ruskin and the Ecology of Design, by Lars Spuybroek |
| | * Propeller, by Roy Villevoy and Jan Dietvorst |
| | * A Fieldguide to Next Doggerland, by Theun Karelse |
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