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Dear everybody—I hope this finds you well.
A cordial invitation to a large event that I have co-curated, as well as some other news.
I very much hope to see you at the HKW if you happen to be in Berlin this weekend, especially at the Chance session, Saturday evening—tomorrow—19.30h.
Sascha
CURATORIAL: 1948 UNBOUND at HKW
30 Nov - 2 Dec 2017, Chance: Saturday Dec 2nd, 19.30h
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), BerlinQuarterspin from The House in the Sky (2015), Sascha Pohflepp & Chris Woebken
Human culture has been a culture of chance all along. Practices of divination have served as buffers between human societies and their ecosystems for millennia, using predictive and even divinatory methods for food cultivation and navigation. Around 1948, a new configuration of chance practices becomes operative with the establishment of game theory, computer simulations, and scenario planning. Embracing chance and its phenomena, its materials, and rituals, the Chance session aims to explore a lesser known but crucial element of the 'technosphere', concluding with a speculative dream of a future in which we, in 2017, are already history.
With Josh Berson, Benjamin Bratton, Seth Bullock, Katrina Burch / Yoneda Lemma, Luis Campos, Elena Esposito, Alexander R. Galloway, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Orit Halpern, Giuseppe Longo, Nahum All, Tea Palmelund, Helena Shomar & Inigo Wilkins. Created in collaboration with Nick Houde, Katrin Klingan, Janek Müller, Johanna Schindler, Mira Witte and Christoph Rosol.
https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2017/1948/1948_start.php
WORK: SPACEWALK at CASA & at NIPS 2017
8 Dec 2017, Machine Learning for Creativity and Design @ NIPS 2017, Long Beach, CA
June - July 2017, Centro de las Artes San Agustín, Oaxaca, MexicoIn Spacewalk, two artificial intelligences play a game with almost three-thousand images of predatory animals in order to find what patterns emerge. Taking a walk in the so-called lateral space of the resulting neural network, the hazy visage of a jaguar appears.
http://www.pohflepp.net/Work/Spacewalk
RESIDENCY: DEEP UNLEARNING at Solitude & ZKM
With Chris Woebken, November-December 2017
Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM KarlsruheThrough the hypothetical deployment of true machinic creativity, both new knowledge and its application in time would be likely to produce effects so complex and alien that we may never fully understand them. In order to prepare for a world of unhuman knowledge, in a playful-yet-serious inversion we propose a paradoxial process of Deep Unlearning for humans: An open-ended series of playful algorithmic exercises will be developed, phrased in an almost Fluxus-like fashion, executed and documented over the course of the residency and beyond.
https://schloss-post.com/deep-unlearning/
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