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Welcome to my blog. I document my adventures in travel, style, and food. Hope you have a nice stay!
Welcome to my blog. I document my adventures in travel, style, and food. Hope you have a nice stay!
ArchaeaBot: by Anna Dumitriu and Alex May in collaboration. Photo: Vanessa Graf/Ars Electronica 2018
Beyond Biology is a symposium exploring the themes behind ‘The Downloadable Brain’, co-hosted by the Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Mirroring our public programme’s curatorial framework, the event explores the three technological goals: to build a machine that can think for itself; to create a technological copy of a human; to read another’s thoughts through their brain data.
Decoding Humans unveils topical research, new artworks and technological approaches to tracking emotion. Audiences learnt about the technological turn to cognitive and biological data collation, exploring pioneering innovations to the quantification of emotions. As these technologies seek to reveal the inner workings of the mind, the speakers question what sort of future we can expect as emotion becomes a new cognitive target of the digital age.
In the closing event for The Downloadable Brain, audiences enoyed a live preview of The MOMENT - a brain controlled film by artist and researcher Richard Ramchurn. Via a Q&A with historian of science Flora Lysen, Ramchurn discussed how different states of the mind can be manipulated and immersed through connection with technology.
'The Downloadable Brain' is a three month public programme of events, new-media art, and a critical essay series. In our launch event we unveil the research behind this programme exploring the future of brain-reading technology and sentient machines.
Our Director Gabriella Warren-Smith will be sharing her research from the Cognitive Sensations programme through an interview with Agora Digital Arts. She will discuss how science and art cross-disciplinary practice can work together in facing current issues around technology and the brain. A special focus will address how perception and attention are impacted by repetitive screen exposure, and our biological future with these devices.
