Taps - A Group Reflection Activity

I’ve participated in this. The facilitator, who brought many years of experience working with organizations, closed our 3 day retreat with a version of this, largely silent reflective activity. Even in the rather formal conditions of an organizational retreat, I found it surprisingly moving, with my eyes closed listening to the quiet wash of people walking around the room, and occasionally feeling the lightest tap on my shoulder.

Xinwei

Taps - A Group Reflection Activity

I’ve participated in this. The facilitator, who brought many years of experience working with organizations, closed our 3 day retreat with a version of this, largely silent reflective activity. Even in the rather formal conditions of an organizational retreat, I found it surprisingly moving, with my eyes closed listening to the quiet wash of people walking around the room, and occasionally feeling the lightest tap on my shoulder.

Xinwei

Giuseppe Longo / Programming Life vs. Playful Life

Here are the video, slides and flyer from Giuseppe Longo’s talk yesterday!

CIPh Indeterminacy and Play 05
Giuseppe Longo / Programming Life vs. Playful Life
13 June 2024

Video Recording:


Slides:



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Professor European Graduate School | Associate Editor AI & Society Journal | Founding Director Topological Media Lab | Senior Fellow Building21 McGill
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Cecile Malaspina, "Pure information: on infinity and human nature in the technical object"

Friends and Fellow Travelers,

Attached is an interesting article by Cecile Malaspina,"Pure information: on infinity and human nature in the technical object," Culture, Theory and Critique, 2019



Xin Wei

zoom videoconference link for CIPh Seminar with Sougwen Chung, May 9th, 17:00 British time

Thanks for registering.  Below is the direct zoom link to the online CIPh seminar:

Sougwen Chung

Experiment and Experience: A Polyphonic Seminar on the Dao of Indeterminacy and Play

Thursday 9 May 2024, 5:00 - 7:00 pm British Summer Time

Seminar Videoconference Link

https://asu.zoom.us/j/83157469283?pwd=WjNLMkpMYkJHNHBTZmNLYXhZL1FJZz09





BIO


Sougwen Chung is a Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher considered a pioneer in human-machine collaboration – exploring the mark-made-by-hand and the mark-made-by-machine as an approach to understanding systems. Chung’s work MEMORY is part of the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum and is the first AI Model to be collected by a major institution. Recently, Chung was recognized as a Cultural Leader at the World Economic Forum, one of four recipients of the TIME100 Impact award, and named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI.




SERIES DESCRIPTION

In An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies Steve Coutinho writes: “Interconnections build and shift as one develops familiarity with the verses, but the meaning never crystallises into a final form.” This seminar responds to the need to enlarge the concerns, vocabulary, and even the modes of articulation of philosophy, so as to address the transformative dynamics of the contemporary world. Because it imbricates local and planetary complexities, this work calls for greater openness towards philosophical legacies muted by the dominance of the Western tradition of philosophy, including alternative attitudes towards indeterminacy, as well as traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). We invite participants to bring plural, distinct personal and cultural genealogies of thought to bear on the theme of indeterminacy and play, as much to create a polyphonic family of generate interpretations of the theme as to showcase the richly disparate modes and concerns that animate these genealogies.

Cécile Malaspina
Directrice de programme, Collège International de Philosophie
Programmer for Art & Curatorial Practice, The New Centre for Research & Practice
Visiting Fellow, King's College London
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Sha Xin Wei

Videoconference lszink for CIPh Seminar with Sougwen Chung, May 9th, 5:00 PM British time

Welcome to an online CIPh seminar

Sougwen Chung

Experiment and Experience: A Polyphonic Seminar on the Dao of Indeterminacy and Play

Thursday 9 May 2024, 5:00 - 7:00 pm British Summer Time

Seminar Videoconference Link: https://forms.gle/XyDoScDxvsYQR7M17




BIO


Sougwen Chung is a Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher considered a pioneer in human-machine collaboration – exploring the mark-made-by-hand and the mark-made-by-machine as an approach to understanding systems. Chung’s work MEMORY is part of the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum and is the first AI Model to be collected by a major institution. Recently, Chung was recognized as a Cultural Leader at the World Economic Forum, one of four recipients of the TIME100 Impact award, and named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI.





SERIES DESCRIPTION

In An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies Steve Coutinho writes: “Interconnections build and shift as one develops familiarity with the verses, but the meaning never crystallises into a final form.” This seminar responds to the need to enlarge the concerns, vocabulary, and even the modes of articulation of philosophy, so as to address the transformative dynamics of the contemporary world. Because it imbricates local and planetary complexities, this work calls for greater openness towards philosophical legacies muted by the dominance of the Western tradition of philosophy, including alternative attitudes towards indeterminacy, as well as traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). We invite participants to bring plural, distinct personal and cultural genealogies of thought to bear on the theme of indeterminacy and play, as much to create a polyphonic family of generate interpretations of the theme as to showcase the richly disparate modes and concerns that animate these genealogies.

Muindi F Muindi: Diffracting Africa / Signifying Blackness without Distinction


Recorded Thursday 11 April 2024



ABSTRACT


Western anthropologists studying the indigenous cultures of Black Africans on the continent have, all too often, been intent upon searching for “old ways” that have persisted in spite of the “modern” history of the continent, hoping to gain insights into “pre-modern” and “primitive” peoples. The reality is, however, that the cultural practices of indigenous Black Africans on the continent observed by these anthropologists have all been formed, to some degree, in response to one of the greatest sequences of geographic, demographic, and historiographic catastrophes, from the Slave Trade, to the Colonial Scramble for Africa, to the Organized Abandonment and Underdevelopment of the Postcolonies.

Similarly, Western anthropologists examining aspects of continental Black African cultures that seemingly persist in diasporic Black African cultures have, all too often, imagined that they are observing “old ways” that have persisted in spite of the genocidal, ethnocidal, and ecocidal machinations of racial capitalism. In reality, however, they are observing the dynamic play of homologous and analogous developments and recombinatory Trans-Atlantic crossings, back and forth, between the cultural ecologies of the continent and the diaspora -- all being responses (and not simply reactions) to the apocalyptic events of the past six centuries on both sides of the Middle Passage.

Taking the above into consideration, this lecture will attempt to re-articulate the schism between the continent and the diaspora as an evolving object of philosophical study by re-appropriating and re-evaluating the psychoanalytic anthropologies and ethnographies that informed Deleuze and Guattari’s Schizoanalysis, re-reading them alongside the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, Franz Fanon, George Jackson, Hortense Spillers, Achille Mbembe, Saidiya Hartman, R.A. Judy, Fred Moten, and Denise Ferreira da Silva. In so doing, this lecture will make the case for an Anti-Oedipal Blackness and an Afro-Schizoanalytics that runs counter to applications of Western psychoanalytics and schizoanalytics to anthropologies of continental and diasporic Black Africans.

BIO


Muindi Fanuel Muindi is a performance artist, philosopher, and poet, with Lacustrine Bantu roots in the Rift Forests of Eastern Congo and the Mara Wetlands in Tanzania. He is the author of six books of experimental poetry and prose.

Muindi’s philosophical perspective, his “deconstructive empiricism”, is deeply affected by Bantu philosophies and by Western deconstruction and schizoanalysis, and it is subtly informed by figures, functions, and structures from comparative biology and measure theory.

Muindi’s performances, his “philosophical gestures”, deploy dramatic devices to create sensuous experiences that deepen understandings of the metaphysical catastrophe of coloniality and that broaden the prospects of the Black Arts and Decolonial Sciences. Having adopted the motto “more grit, less kit”, Muindi’s performance practice privileges high latency, low fidelity, and seamful designs and the use of TEK (Transformative Ecological Knowledges).

Muindi is co-founder of the Fyrthyr Institute for Unsettling Technologies, coordinator of the “Prototyping Social Forms” and “Alter-Eco” research streams at the Synthesis Center, an organizer at the Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines, co-producer and audio engineer for the Forested Niches podcast, and a member of the “After School”, “Technologies of Critical Conscientization”, and “Unwriting Nature” research communities at the Center for Art Design + Social Research.

CIPh Polyphonic Seminar on Indeterminacy and Play #4: Sougwen Chung (9 May 2024)

Online Seminar

Sougwen Chung


Thursday 9 May 2024, 5 pm British Summer Time

to receive a zoom videoconference link

 



BIO


Sougwen Chung is a Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher considered a pioneer in human-machine collaboration – exploring the mark-made-by-hand and the mark-made-by-machine as an approach to understanding systems. Chung’s work MEMORY is part of the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum and is the first AI Model to be collected by a major institution. Recently, Chung was recognized as a Cultural Leader at the World Economic Forum, one of four recipients of the TIME100 Impact award, and named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI.



CIPh Seminar Series: 

Experiment and Experience: A Polyphonic Seminar on the Dao of Indeterminacy and Play


Organized by:

Cécile Malaspina, Directrice de programme, Collège international de philosophie, Paris, Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and UWE

Sha Xin Wei, Director of Synthesis, and Professor in the School of Arts, Media + Engineering, and in the School of Complex Adaptive Systems at Arizona State University


Seminar organised in partnership with Professor Patrick ffrench, King's College London, Dr Miguel Prado Casanova, University of the West of England and Professor Francesco Tava, University of the West of England


In An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies Steve Coutinho writes: “Interconnections build and shift as one develops familiarity with the verses, but the meaning never crystallises into a final form.” This seminar responds to the need to enlarge the concerns, vocabulary, and even the modes of articulation of philosophy, so as to address the transformative dynamics of the contemporary world. Because it imbricates local and planetary complexities, this work calls for greater openness towards philosophical legacies muted by the dominance of the Western tradition of philosophy, including alternative attitudes towards indeterminacy, as well as traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). We invite participants to bring plural, distinct personal and cultural genealogies of thought to bear on the theme of indeterminacy and play, as much to create a polyphonic family of generate interpretations of the theme as to showcase the richly disparate modes and concerns that animate these genealogies.



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Professor European Graduate School | Associate Editor AI & Society Journal | Founding Director Topological Media Lab | Senior Fellow Building21 McGill
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CYFEST 15 Colloquium on Vulnerability 22 April 2024, 17:00 CET



22 April 2024, 17:00 CET

Aula Mario Baratto / Ca’ Foscari
2nd Floor, Dorsoduro 3246
VENICE, ITALY



Alice Oswald, celebrated poet and gardener

Sha Xin Wei, Director of Synthesis and Professor School of Arts, Media + Engineering at Arizona State University

Muriel Mambrini-Doudet, 1st Research Director, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, Doctoral program lead at the Learning Planet Institute

Brian MacCraith, Physicist, Senior Advisor to the President, Arizona State University (ASU); Chair, External Oversight Body of the Irish Defence Forces; Chair, Gaelic Players Association (GPA); Former President, Dublin City University (2010–2020)

Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, artists, educators, and co-founders of Urbonas Studio, an interdisciplinary research practice for the transformation of civic spaces and collective imaginaries


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Professor European Graduate School | Associate Editor AI & Society Journal | Founding Director Topological Media Lab | Senior Fellow Building21 McGill
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