SOPHISTIATION CONFERENCE #2
IN ‘LIEU’ OF STATEMENTs
‘ARTICULATION’
How can we find a novel understanding of human intellectuality in co-existence with artificial intelligence? The Sophistication Conferences are dedicated to a basic kind of literacy in how to think about coding as an "alloy-praxis" that glues letters with numbers, physics with information, mathematics with language. If the digital has placed us in an era of New Sophistics, we need an up-to-date corresponding discourse on Sophistication. At the core of such a new materialist literacy is a different relationality among time, nature, subject, and object: Hence our interest is in a »digital gnomonics« that could provide a theoretical framework for addressing computational modelling, machine learning and algorithmic reasoning in a manner that will eventually propel and facilitate ethics, not moralism.
The Sophistication Conferences are organized once a year at the Technical University Vienna, as a cooperation between the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics ATTP and the laboratory for applied virtuality at the chair for CAAD ETH Zurich, where we invite distinguished as well as young scholars from different fields to think about how such »architectonic intellectuality« affects our relations to the world at large – our institutions, as well as our ordinary daily lives.
SOPHISTICATION CONFERENCE #3: Copia and copiousness. CIRCUITOUS articulations that matter
November 14-16, 2019
SOPHISTICATION CONFERENCE #2: IN »LIEU« OF STATEMENTS, »ARTICULATION«
November 8-10, 2018
sophistication conference #1: rhetorical, geometrical, and computational »articulation«.
December 7-10, 2017
The documentation of the past conferences are published on our YouTube channel ATTP TU VIENNA.
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19.00–19.30
IN »LIEU« OF STATEMENTS, Vera Bühlmann, TU Vienna
19.30–20.00
MOBILE YET IMMOBILE, Georg Fassl, TU Vienna
20.00–22.30
EUROPE
MODERATION: RICCARDO VILLA, PHD CANDIDATE AT ATTP, TU VIENNA
20.15–21.15
OF A GHOST AND ITS RESURRECTION: MARIA ZAMBRANO ON THE AGONY OF EUROPE, Rodolphe Gasché, SUNY Buffalo, NY (US)
21.30–22.30
SAVING LE DIFFÉREND (AT LEAST TO PRESERVE THE HONOR OF THINKING), Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University, NY (US)
friday
Nov. 9th2018, 09.00 am – 18.15 pm.
09.30–15.15
MNEMOTECHNICS
MODERATION: EMMANUELLE CHIAPPONE-PIRIOU, PHD CANDIDATE AT ATTP, TU VIENNA
09.45–10.30
ARCHITECTURE OF THE DIAPHANOUS, Riccardo Matteo Villa, TU Vienna
10.45–11.30
A MIND OUTSIDE OURSELVES, Roberto Bottazzi, The Bartlett School of Architecture London (UK)
11.45–12.30
ON STATUES, NOMADS, AND OTHER MODES OF SUBJECTIVATION, Joanna Hodge, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
14.30–15.15
ANAXIMANDER IN FUKUSHIMA, GENEALOGIES OF TECHNIQUE, Zissis Kotionis, University of Thessaly (GR)
15.15–18.15
GNOMONICS
MODERATION: MARTIN RITZINGER, PHD CANDIDATE AT ATTP, TU VIENNA
15.30–16.15
ARCHITECTURE, AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Kristian Faschingeder, TU Vienna
16.30–17.15
ARCHITECTURE AND DIGITAL LITERACY, Ludger Hovestadt, ETH Zurich (CH)
17.30–18.15
COMPUTATIONAL MODELING ACROSS DISCIPLINES, Vahid Moosavi, ETH Zurich (CH)
SATURDAY
Nov. 10th2018, 10.00 am – 18.00 pm.
09.30–12.30
METHODICS
MODERATION: MICHAEL R. DOYLE, TU VIENNA
09.45–10.30
CRYSTALGEBRA: ARCHITECTONIC ARTICULATIONS IN CRYSTAL SPACE, Poltak Pandjaitan, ETH Zurich (CH)
10.45–11.30
SOPHISTICATION: GOOD SENSE AND COMMON SENSE, Sjoerd van Tuinen, Rotterdam University (NL)
11.45–12.30
ON HYPEROBJECTS: DIGITAL MIRRORS AND THE REALITY PRINCIPLE, Georgios Tsagdis, University of Westminster (UK)
14.30–15.00
THE CITIES IN THE PLANETARY GARDEN. A FILM FEATURE WITH THE CITY MAYOR OF PALERMO, SICILY, Martin Burr, Fachwerk für Bau, Bühne, Bild und Biennale, Allschwil (CH)
15.15–18.00
CANONICS
MODERATION: OLIVER SCHÜRER, TU VIENNA
15.15–16.00
THE PYTHAGOREAN LEGACY OF CANONICS, Elias Zafiris, University of Athens (GR)
16.15–17.00
SPECTRAL ARCHITECTONICS, Nikola Marinčić, ETH Zurich (CH)
17.15–18.00
IS COMPUTING AN INFERIOR WAY OF THINKING? (ON CHURCH-TURING THESIS), Gilles Dowek, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (FR)