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Hybrid Futures Symposium: Re-Imagining Human-Machine Encounters |
| Digital Innovation Season Finale |
30.01.21
The Hybrid Futures Symposium brings together thinkers, researchers and
creative practitioners to illuminate the impact of digital technologies on the
human and the nonhuman.
What does it mean to be human in a world increasingly populated by and designed for machines? What kind of futures we imagine in our encounter with the non-humanity of technology? Are machines destined to rule the world beyond our control and capacity? Or can the human-machine encounter be re-imagined as collaboration rather than antagonism? As coevolution rather than hierarchy?
The Hybrid Futures Symposium will offer ideas on how to build creative and critical responses to the challenges technologies present today, and the kind of questions we should ask to craft future sustaining human-machine encounters. The symposium brings together thinkers, researchers and creative practitioners to illuminate the impact of digital technoogies on the human and the nonhuman.
Speaker abstracts and bios available here.
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What does it mean to be human in a world increasingly populated by and designed for machines? What kind of futures we imagine in our encounter with the non-humanity of technology? Are machines destined to rule the world beyond our control and capacity? Or can the human-machine encounter be re-imagined as collaboration rather than antagonism? As coevolution rather than hierarchy?
The Hybrid Futures Symposium will offer ideas on how to build creative and critical responses to the challenges technologies present today, and the kind of questions we should ask to craft future sustaining human-machine encounters. The symposium brings together thinkers, researchers and creative practitioners to illuminate the impact of digital technoogies on the human and the nonhuman.
Speaker abstracts and bios available here.
Speakers include:
Memo Akten, Computational Artist/Researcher/Philomath
http://www.memo.tv/works/;
Adam Nocek, Professor of Philosophy of Technology and STS and Director of the Center for Philosophical Technologies (CPT) at Arizona State University
https://www.c-p-t.org/;
Tobias Rees, Director of the Berggruen Institute’s Transformations of the Human Program and Reid Hoffman Professor of Humanities at the New School for Social Research https://www.berggruen.org/people/tobias-rees/;
Maggie Roberts, Artist, Part of the collaborative group 0(rphan)d(rift>)
http://www.orphandriftarchive.com/;
Nye Thompson, Artist turned Software Designer turned Artist
http://nyethompson.net/;
Kaye Toland, educator, researcher and transdisciplinary designer specialising in social innovation and design futures https://www.kayetoland.com/;
Joana Chicau, graphic designer, coder, researcher - with a background in dance https://www.joanachicau.com/;
Betti Marenko, transdisciplinary researcher across process philosophies, design studies, and the critique of technology, exploring how speculative-pragmatic interventions can problematize knowledge-making and future-building
http://bettimarenko.org/
The symposium will look at how to imagine and implement
politically engaged practices that reflect on and interrogate the role of
technologies in the everyday, how spaces of creative resistance and critical
response can be envisioned, and hybrid futures crafted through practical
speculation.
Free. Everyone welcome.
Hybrid Futures:
Hosting a series of critical talks with leading-edge practitioners and thinkers around the interaction between humans and machines, curated and led by Dr Betti Marenko, Reader in Design and Techno-Digital Futures at the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins. Learn More
Free. Everyone welcome.
Hybrid Futures:
Hosting a series of critical talks with leading-edge practitioners and thinkers around the interaction between humans and machines, curated and led by Dr Betti Marenko, Reader in Design and Techno-Digital Futures at the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins. Learn More
Saturday, 30th January 15:00pm-18:00pm GMT
Structure
15.00 – 15.15 Welcome and introduction (Betti Marenko)
15.15 – 16.15 Panel 1 + discussion (Tobias Rees, Maggie Roberts, Memo Akten)
16.15 – 16.45 Hybrid Futures Hackathon Showcase of the six shortlisted entries (Kaye Toland and Joana Chicau)
16.45 – 16.50 break
16.50 – 17.40 Panel 2 + discussion (Adam Nocek, Nye Thompson)
17.40 – 18.00 Prize Award (special guest judge Rathna Ramanathan, Dean of Academic Strategy CSM) + conclusion
Organization and chair: Betti Marenko
Structure
15.00 – 15.15 Welcome and introduction (Betti Marenko)
15.15 – 16.15 Panel 1 + discussion (Tobias Rees, Maggie Roberts, Memo Akten)
16.15 – 16.45 Hybrid Futures Hackathon Showcase of the six shortlisted entries (Kaye Toland and Joana Chicau)
16.45 – 16.50 break
16.50 – 17.40 Panel 2 + discussion (Adam Nocek, Nye Thompson)
17.40 – 18.00 Prize Award (special guest judge Rathna Ramanathan, Dean of Academic Strategy CSM) + conclusion
Organization and chair: Betti Marenko
