CAC联合系列讲座 | 人工生命、人工智能、艺术和转化的自然 第三期

系列讲座

第三期：万物聚合

日期：

2022.09.03 （周六）

 

时间：

20:30 – 22:30 

嘉宾：

CROSSLUCID、曹舒怡、彭憶歐

学术主持：

彭憶歐

语言：

英文

主办：

艾厂人工智能艺术中心，香港科技大学（广州）计算机媒体与艺术系，新时线媒体艺术中心

项目发起人：

吴子薇、李茜、毕昕、曹佳敏

项目统筹：

刘赛赛

直播平台

‍如今，人工智能算法被广泛应用于计算生物学和合成生物学等领域。通过硬件、软件和湿件的合成或模拟，技术对自然生命系统的特征进行重组和表现。同时，在人们与非人类实体日趋参与性的互动中，技术合成物也表现得像一个生物体，参与到周遭环境中的协作与共生之中。

在这样一种转变中，生命如何被赋予新的想像？什么是人工智能和生命领域的美学？人工生命如何融入一个共生社区并影响社会与文化？我们又将如何理解这其中所涉及伦理和道德话题？

新时线媒体艺术中心联合艾厂人工智能艺术中心、香港科技大学（广州），共同发起“人工生命、人工智能、艺术和转化的自然” 系列研讨会，旨在汇聚艺术家、科学家和学者，从不同角度探讨如何以及为何创造人工生命——技术是如何在生物灵感的基础上被发明的？以及我们该如何理解技术所呈现出的生物性？这些领域又如何与真实的自然纠缠，并呈现出另一种自然的面貌？

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第三期：万物聚合

物质性的本质即缠绕。物质本身总是时刻准备着向“他者”开放，更确切地说，与之缠绕。

—— 凯伦·巴拉德

《半途相遇宇宙：量子物理和物质与意义的缠绕》

根据凯伦·巴拉德的观点，缠绕不是简单地与他者交织，如同两个独立个体的联结，反而是一种缺乏独立、自足的存在。在一个不只有人类存在的世界中，各种生物、物体、（非）有机体、力量和物质通过多孔的身体相互缠绕，形成人类和非人类实体的聚合，共同运作，促进社会物质的变化。然而这种复杂的聚合在性质上从来不是统一的，它们需要在不同的实体间共同运作、调节与栖居。

这种聚合体的复杂性、差异性以及多样性是我们试图在这次活动中探讨的主题。我们如何想象一个开放的智能机器生态并将互惠的美学和行星思维纳入人工智能与机器学习中？我们如何从多元的宇宙观与超越人类感知的视角来阐述那些嵌入技术科学进程之中并受其影响的事实与梦想？我们如何与万物相遇，并落入一个由许多世界相互缠绕在一起的世界之中？

本期论坛邀请参与 "缠绕：生物/媒介"展览的艺术家曹舒怡，艺术家团体CROSSLUCID，以及学者和作家彭憶歐来分享她们对上述问题的理解与回应。

关于嘉宾&主持

CROSSLUCID系由西尔瓦娜·齐布拉（Sylwana Zybura）和托马斯·C·托斯（Tomas C. Toth）于2018年在上海共同创立的艺术团体。他们目前生活工作于柏林，投身于高度合作的跨文化创意实践中。

他们的跨学科实践包括动态影像&电影、摄影、数字3D技术、诗意人工智能以及利用世界构建与经验为设计策略、以体验为主导的介入行动。CROSSLUCID基于对现实本质的广泛研究、通过科学理解到的精神实践、数字时代的网络化自我以及性与亲密关系，通过拼贴、组合、视觉散文和网络化过程等多层技术来开拓不断发展的项目。

他们将原型和符号、人工智能和科幻小说，以及来自不同时空的神话交织在一起，创建场景并构筑沉浸式体验形式，以此激发对即近的未来与正在更进的"元现代"（metamodern）准则的原型设计和预演。

https://crosslucid.zone/

 © 曹舒怡，摄影：Young Dong

曹舒怡是一位驻纽约的艺术家。感兴趣于地质、生物与技术物质的复杂网络，她的创作实践探索物体制造与知识生产的炼金术。近期作品专注于在一个充满不确定性的生态及社会环境中，寻求重新定位人类自身的模式。她的混合媒介雕塑装置通过形式与物质性的拼接转换，将传统雕塑材料如玻璃、陶瓷、金属、硅胶与树脂，与数字技术、影像与声音相结合。她以思辨考古的形式，重构有机与无机物、自然与人工物在虚拟和物理世界之间的纠缠关系。

https://www.shuyicao.com/

 © 彭憶歐，摄影：elfie

彭憶歐（yiou penelope peng| oxi pëng），本科毕业于美国史密斯女子学院（Smith College）经济学与电影研究专业; 硕士毕业于英国伦敦大学学院（University College London）哲学与电影研究专业。现为柏林自由大学戏剧研究所（Institute of Theatre Studies，Free University Berlin）博士候选人。 

她主要从事身体写作（embodied writing）、以及与表演交织的艺术研究（interweaving artistic research）。 彭憶歐的研究课题专注于在表演发生当下不同生物物种及物理能量的 ‘触碰’、 ‘异化’ 与 ‘交织’ 过程。她尝试从非人类中心主义的角度建立(奇幻小说般的)关于植物、微生物、赛伯 格、妖怪、外星人及无法定义生/物体的表演分析理论 —— 后人类表演性（Posthumanist Performativity）。

http://www.yioupennypeng.com

关于合作机构

Seminar Series

Artificial Life, AI, Art and Altered Nature

Chapter 3   more-than-human assemblage

Date:

2022.09.03 (Sat.)

 

Time:

8.30 p.m. –  10.30 p.m

Speakers:

CROSSLUCID, Shuyi CAO, yiou penelope peng

Academic Host:

yiou penelope peng

Language:

English

Organized by

Aiiiii Art Center, Computational Media and Arts, HKUST(GZ), Chronus Art Center

Curated by

WU Ziwei, LI Xi, BI Xin, CAO Jiamin

Coordinator:

Saisai Liu

Streaming Platforms

The term "Artificial Life" was coined by computer scientist Christopher Langton in 1987. However, the notion and practices of "artificial life" are far predated. This topic has long been an interest of scientists and artists, who have been exploring the fundamental principles of life and attempting to think life in the context of an artificial system.

In recent times, Artificial Intelligence algorithms have been widely implemented in various interdisciplinary fields including Computational Biology and Synthetic Biology. Through synthesising or simulating hardware, software, and wetware, technology restructures and represents the characteristics of the natural living system. Meanwhile, in the increasingly participatory interactions between humans and non-human entities, the technological assemblage also behaves like a living organism, performing in the collaboration and cohabitation with environment.

How can life be reimagined in the process of the transition? What is the aesthetics in Artificial Intelligence and the realm of life? How can artificial beings perform in symbiosis with the community and even influence society and culture? How do we perceive the ethical and moral issues?

Co-organized by Chronus Art Center, Aiiiii Art Center, Computational Media and Arts, and HKUST(GZ), the seminar aims to bring artists, scientists, and scholars together to discuss from different perspectives how and why artists and scientists create Artificial Life. How was technology inspired by living things? How to understand the biological nature of technology? How have these fields entangled with nature and present themselves in another form of nature?

Chapter 3   more-than-human assemblage

Meeting the Universe Halfway: 

Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning.

According to Karen Barad, to be entangled is not simply to be intertwined with another, as in the joining of separate entities, but to lack independent, self-contained existence. In a more-than-human world, diverse creatures, objects, (non)organisms, forces and materialities are entangled across porous bodies, collectively operating as assemblages of human and nonhuman agencies, facilitating the socio-material changes. However, such complex constellations are never uniform in their nature, as they need to co-function, co-mediate, and co-habit among different entities.

The complexity, differences and diversity in such assemblages are the topics we would like to address and explore in this event. How can we imagine an open machine intelligence ecology incorporating reciprocal aesthetics and planetary thinking into Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? How do we narrate the facts and dreams that are integrated with and interfered by technoscientific processes from manifold cosmologies and not-just-human sensibilities? How can we encounter the myriad happenings and fall into an entangled world of many worlds? 

The panel discussion invites Shuyi CAO, the currently participating artist of the exhibition Entangled: bio/media, the artist collective CROSSLUCID, and scholar and writer yiou penelope peng to elaborate on their responses to the above questions.  

About the Speakers & Host

© CROSSLUCID

Their interdisciplinary practice encompasses moving image & film, photography, digital 3D techniques, poetic AI and experience-led interventions utilising world-building and experience design strategies. Based on extensive research into the nature of reality; spiritual practices understood through science; the network self or sexuality and intimacy in the digital age, they develop evolving projects often utilising the multi-layered techniques of collage, assemblage, visual essay and networked processes.

 © Shuyi CAO, photo: Young Dong

 © yiou penelope peng, photo: elfie

yiou penelope peng (oxi pëng | 彭憶歐), previously trained as a pianist and a scholar in cinema studies at smith college, university college of london, is now a phd. candidate at free university berlin for her research on the ‘touch’, ‘transformation’ and ‘interweaving’ among various non- and living beings in performative happenings. she attempts to embody a speculative performance analysis about plants, matter, cyborgs, spirits, aliens and non-definable entities from anthropocosmic perspectives.

yiou practices (embodied writing), creates (psychedelic poetry), and dreams (of pink tardigrade) softly.

About the Co-organizers

Aiiiii Art Center (Est. 2021) is an artificial intelligence art institution based in Shanghai. The organisation seeks to support, promote, as well as incubate both international and domestic artists and projects related to intelligent algorithms. Aiiiii Art Center is committed to becoming a pioneer of artificial intelligence through the discovering of exciting possibilities afforded by the intersections of creativity and technology.

Aiiiii Art Center aims to offer insight into the many challenges, practices, and creative modes of artificial intelligence based art. Such aims will be achieved through academic conferences and published research efforts conducted either independently or in collaboration with domestic and international institutions and organisations. This organisation will also actively promote and showcase the exploratory uses of artificial intelligence based art in practice.

根据凯伦·巴拉德的观点，缠绕不是简单地与他者交织，如同两个独立个体的联结，反而是一种缺乏独立、自足的存在。在一个不只有人类存在的世界中，各种生物、物体、（非）有机体、力量和物质通过多孔的身体相互缠绕，形成人类和非人类实体的聚合，共同运作，促进社会物质的变化。然而这种复杂的聚合在性质上从来不是统一的，它们需要在不同的实体间共同运作、调节与栖居。

这种聚合体的复杂性、差异性以及多样性是我们试图在这次活动中探讨的主题。我们如何想象一个开放的智能机器生态并将互惠的美学和行星思维纳入人工智能与机器学习中？我们如何从多元的宇宙观与超越人类感知的视角来阐述那些嵌入技术科学进程之中并受其影响的事实与梦想？我们如何与万物相遇，并落入一个由许多世界相互缠绕在一起的世界之中？

本期论坛邀请参与 "缠绕：生物/媒介"展览的艺术家曹舒怡，艺术家团体crosslucid，以及学者和作家彭憶歐来分享她们对上述问题的理解与回应。