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The Last Meeting, a Gathering on Computational Governance
Through the gathering, we seek to investigate the possibilities and dangers of incorporating contemporary technology into policy- and decision-making, synthesising the phenomenal and the computational. The Last Meeting is a meta-meeting—a meeting in which to consider the possibility of never again holding another meeting. It is, we propose, the last, final meeting.
The Intercratic Experiment
Democratic regimes all around the world have fallen under though times. The very concept of democracy is being increasingly challenged by reactionary movements and populist demagogues, who express a general distrust in the system and the established power, and painfully expose its shortcomings. These movements and tendencies defy the ever more globalising and economised politics by suggesting a return to a system that is based on what they refer to as 'better times'. Times when the political apparatus of representative democracy could keep up with the context of the world, or in others words: when simple people could still understand simple problems.
Image © Liesje De Laet & Katinka de Jonge
Art and Automation: The Role of the Artist in an Automated Future
Abstract
Rapid development in automated technology is the catalyst for a paradigmatic change in society. Exponential growth of machine learning and AI applications may bring to an end the monopoly on creative production currently claimed by the arts. In this new world, the position of the artist as the producer of authentic human experience wavers. Considering various models of an automated future, this research aims to outline the possible modus operandi of the artist in changing productive environments.
Interview, forum voor beeldende kunst
INTERVIEW laat de relatie van de kunstenaar tot zijn werk voorop staan. Vertrekkend vanuit dit verband werd elke deelnemer gevraagd om over zijn oeuvre te reflecteren. Wat is de beweegreden om tot een werk te komen? Wanneer is een werk af? Op basis daarvan kozen zij een werk uit dat typerend, onvoltooid is of nooit getoond werd. De rol van curator wordt tot een minimum herleid, het autonome kunstwerk wordt in vraag gesteld.