NY POSTHUMAN WINTER SUMMIT 2016
We are delighted to inform you that our next NY Posthuman Winter Summit is scheduled for February 10th, 7-9 pm, to be held at NYIT.
We have a line of highly interesting scholars and projects to present:
Invited Speakers
Roman Kalinovski:
"Posthuman Performance and Distributed Celebrity Feat. Hatsune Miku"
Anna Blume:
"Lithic Sense: An Ontology of Things"
Philip Baldwin:
"Post-humanism, cognitive spaces, way-finding, and the algorithms of social systems"
You can find the abstract and bio for each presenter in attachment.
Member Projects
Stella Iannitto:
"Transmedia Ad Memoriam"
Announcements:
2nd Glocal Symposium, April 22nd, NYC, US
8th Beyond Humanism Conference, Madrid, Spain
Here all the details to attend our NY Posthuman Winter Summit:
When
Wednesday, February 10th 2016, from 7 till 9 pm.
Where
New York Institute of Technology, NYIT’s Manhattan campus.
The building we will meet in is 16 W. 61st Street, room 820. This room is on the eight floor of the building, just near the corner of Broadway and W. 61st.
How to get there
The easiest way to get to our campus is to take the subway. The Eighth Avenue (A and C trains), the Sixth Avenue (B and D trains), and Broadway (1 train) lines stop throughout the day at Columbus Circle, a half-block south of the corner of 61stand Broadway.
RSVP
Entrance is free, registration is required:
To register, please fill out this form
This will be a very exciting Meeting: we are looking forward to seeing you again and keeping developing together the posthuman turn! You can find all the abstracts on the following paragraph. For more info: http://www.posthumans.org/ny-events.html
If you are planning to attend, please make sure to send the form (otherwise, the security will not let you in the building). Our most sincere gratitude goes to NYIT for all the kind, generous and precious support offered to our Group.
We have a line of highly interesting scholars and projects to present:
Invited Speakers
Roman Kalinovski:
"Posthuman Performance and Distributed Celebrity Feat. Hatsune Miku"
Anna Blume:
"Lithic Sense: An Ontology of Things"
Philip Baldwin:
"Post-humanism, cognitive spaces, way-finding, and the algorithms of social systems"
You can find the abstract and bio for each presenter in attachment.
Member Projects
Stella Iannitto:
"Transmedia Ad Memoriam"
Announcements:
2nd Glocal Symposium, April 22nd, NYC, US
8th Beyond Humanism Conference, Madrid, Spain
Here all the details to attend our NY Posthuman Winter Summit:
When
Wednesday, February 10th 2016, from 7 till 9 pm.
Where
New York Institute of Technology, NYIT’s Manhattan campus.
The building we will meet in is 16 W. 61st Street, room 820. This room is on the eight floor of the building, just near the corner of Broadway and W. 61st.
How to get there
The easiest way to get to our campus is to take the subway. The Eighth Avenue (A and C trains), the Sixth Avenue (B and D trains), and Broadway (1 train) lines stop throughout the day at Columbus Circle, a half-block south of the corner of 61stand Broadway.
RSVP
Entrance is free, registration is required:
To register, please fill out this form
This will be a very exciting Meeting: we are looking forward to seeing you again and keeping developing together the posthuman turn! You can find all the abstracts on the following paragraph. For more info: http://www.posthumans.org/ny-events.html
If you are planning to attend, please make sure to send the form (otherwise, the security will not let you in the building). Our most sincere gratitude goes to NYIT for all the kind, generous and precious support offered to our Group.
ABSTRACTS
1. Title: Posthuman Performance and Distributed Celebrity Feat. Hatsune Miku
Abstract: Hatsune Miku is an international pop star who has played sold-out concerts across the globe. She is also a piece of software, the public face of Yamaha's Vocaloid speech synthesis technology. Her voice can be purchased in multiple languages and used to sing practically any song imaginable. Her body can be downloaded as a 3D model, either "officially" sanctioned or one of many fan-created versions, and used in digitally-choreographed dance routines. This talk will give a brief history of Miku and the Vocaloid software that has turned a human voice into a cyborg voice with unlimited potential and malleability. It will also focus on the character of Miku as a posthuman pop star whose celebrity complicates traditionally accepted conceptions of fame as arising from singular, complete, and irreducible subjectivities. Miku represents a different model, one of distributed celebrity, with the creative power behind her rise to stardom spread across the globe on countless computers, singing infinite songs, written by a legion of fans and followers.
Bio: Roman Kalinovski
Roman Kalinovski is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. His artistic practice combines traditional and digital media to create a posthuman Baroque aesthetic in which any distinction between the real and the fictional has become meaninglessly blurred. He holds degrees in studio art from Syracuse University and Pratt Institute, is currently an artist in residence at Babycastles, and writes art criticism for artcritical.com.
2. Title: "Lithic Sense: An Ontology of Things"
While looking at Paleolithic and Archaic stone carvings, I will want to consider the active role of materiality in the making of things and how elements have specific agency as collaborative components in their transformation into objects. This train of thought can potentially open up notions of the ontology of beings and things as they interrelate as well as the possibility of a metaphysics through these relationships. Such an approach can shift us out of an anthropocentric perspective into a dialectic of animal and element.
Bio: Anna Blume
Anna Blume - As a Professor in the History or Art at the SUNY campus of the Fashion Institute of Technology I teach courses on the relationship between photography and archeology and art and ethics. Most recently, I completed an honorary fellowship at the Institute of Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focused on ancient monumental architecture and sculpture in the Mississippi valley. Previous studies have included Maya concepts of zero and images of human animal hybridity.
3. Post-humanism, cognitive spaces, way-finding, and the algorithms of social systems.
This is a lecture/demo using an EEG, real time data neuro-sensor on placed on a head that outputs feedback data to demonstrate the alarming new 'post-human' dimensions of VR, BCI, surveillance, susveillance, and the important capacity of 'psychological way-finding' through a number of very different terrains. Many of these terrains have no distinct borders or 'liminal zones'. The cognitive space of the college campus seduces with its indebtedness very early in the life of a subject. This could be first to go into the VR world. Using the material pressures created by capitalist economic 'scarcity' as a back ground, and the four algorithms of social interaction as 'boots on the ground' I argue/demonstrate multiple post human outcomes as the non-solipsist subject 'way-finds' in variable spaces. The necessity of a low-surveillance/susveillance culture, 'addiction resistance', and mixed reality semiosis become paramount in the feedback to an appreciation of the new VR space/time.
Bio: Phillip Baldwin
Phillip Baldwin, Professor at Stony Brook University. BA Philosophy from Gustavus Adolphus College. 1981, MFA from Yale University 1987, FAAR, Prix de Rome, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome 1994. Co artistic director of 'Global Civic Media' and international NGO on Interactive media projects. Info:terrafirmanova.blogspot.com
Abstract: Hatsune Miku is an international pop star who has played sold-out concerts across the globe. She is also a piece of software, the public face of Yamaha's Vocaloid speech synthesis technology. Her voice can be purchased in multiple languages and used to sing practically any song imaginable. Her body can be downloaded as a 3D model, either "officially" sanctioned or one of many fan-created versions, and used in digitally-choreographed dance routines. This talk will give a brief history of Miku and the Vocaloid software that has turned a human voice into a cyborg voice with unlimited potential and malleability. It will also focus on the character of Miku as a posthuman pop star whose celebrity complicates traditionally accepted conceptions of fame as arising from singular, complete, and irreducible subjectivities. Miku represents a different model, one of distributed celebrity, with the creative power behind her rise to stardom spread across the globe on countless computers, singing infinite songs, written by a legion of fans and followers.
Bio: Roman Kalinovski
Roman Kalinovski is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. His artistic practice combines traditional and digital media to create a posthuman Baroque aesthetic in which any distinction between the real and the fictional has become meaninglessly blurred. He holds degrees in studio art from Syracuse University and Pratt Institute, is currently an artist in residence at Babycastles, and writes art criticism for artcritical.com.
2. Title: "Lithic Sense: An Ontology of Things"
While looking at Paleolithic and Archaic stone carvings, I will want to consider the active role of materiality in the making of things and how elements have specific agency as collaborative components in their transformation into objects. This train of thought can potentially open up notions of the ontology of beings and things as they interrelate as well as the possibility of a metaphysics through these relationships. Such an approach can shift us out of an anthropocentric perspective into a dialectic of animal and element.
Bio: Anna Blume
Anna Blume - As a Professor in the History or Art at the SUNY campus of the Fashion Institute of Technology I teach courses on the relationship between photography and archeology and art and ethics. Most recently, I completed an honorary fellowship at the Institute of Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focused on ancient monumental architecture and sculpture in the Mississippi valley. Previous studies have included Maya concepts of zero and images of human animal hybridity.
3. Post-humanism, cognitive spaces, way-finding, and the algorithms of social systems.
This is a lecture/demo using an EEG, real time data neuro-sensor on placed on a head that outputs feedback data to demonstrate the alarming new 'post-human' dimensions of VR, BCI, surveillance, susveillance, and the important capacity of 'psychological way-finding' through a number of very different terrains. Many of these terrains have no distinct borders or 'liminal zones'. The cognitive space of the college campus seduces with its indebtedness very early in the life of a subject. This could be first to go into the VR world. Using the material pressures created by capitalist economic 'scarcity' as a back ground, and the four algorithms of social interaction as 'boots on the ground' I argue/demonstrate multiple post human outcomes as the non-solipsist subject 'way-finds' in variable spaces. The necessity of a low-surveillance/susveillance culture, 'addiction resistance', and mixed reality semiosis become paramount in the feedback to an appreciation of the new VR space/time.
Bio: Phillip Baldwin
Phillip Baldwin, Professor at Stony Brook University. BA Philosophy from Gustavus Adolphus College. 1981, MFA from Yale University 1987, FAAR, Prix de Rome, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome 1994. Co artistic director of 'Global Civic Media' and international NGO on Interactive media projects. Info:terrafirmanova.blogspot.com