SOPHISTICATION CONFERENCE #3
COPIA AND COPIOUSNESS.
CIRCUITOUS ARTICULATIONS THAT MATTER
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.
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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.
The documentation of the past conferences are published on our ATTP-YouTube-Channel.
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PROGRAM
THURSDAY EVENING
Nov. 14th2019, at 18.00-22.00 in Festsaal, Karlsplatz 13, Stiege I, 1. OG.
18.00 Panel One: Copia and Copiousness:
Circuitous Articulations that Matter.
Introduction by Vera Bühlmann & Ludger Hovestadt
18.30 Deforming the Malformed: Physical and Mental Space in René Descartes.
James Griffith, Liberal Arts College, Bratislava
19.30 The Metaphysics of Modular Thinking. Architecture, Geometry, the Felting of Wool and the origins of Greek philosophy.
Robert Hahn, Philosophy, Southern Illinois University
21.00 In Praise of Folly, reading from Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Sebastian Michael, writer, London
FRIDAY
Nov. 15th2019, at 09.00-17.30 in Kuppelsaal, Karlsplatz 13, Stiege I, 4. OG.
09.00 Panel Two: All, and then Some.
Moderation by Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou.
09.15 The Third Global Spatial Revolution.
Matteo Vegetti, Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio
10.15 At the Confluence of the Two Seas: On the Ontological Difference of Images
Riccardo M. Villa, TU Vienna
11.30 Mathematics - Architecture - Philosophy: The Static Tripod and its Diachronic Stability.
Elias Zafiris, Athens University
14.00 Panel Three: Soft and Hard, Physics of Communication.
Moderation by Ivica Brnic.
14.15 Zenith Boil.
Pa.LaC.E, architects Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds, Basel
15.15 Code in the Techné of Dramatic Communication.
Admir Selimovic, ETH Zurich
16.30 Watch more TV!
Olaf Grawert and Christopher Roth, Studio Brandlhuber+ Berlin, and Design Chair Arno Brandlhuber, ETH Zurich
SATURDAY
Nov. 16th2019, at 09.00-17.30 in Kuppelsaal, Karlsplatz 13, Stiege I, 4. OG.
09.00 Panel Four: Furnishings and Finishings: With Imagination.
Moderation by Georg Fassl.
09.15 Darwin and the Devil's Shudder: On Desire and What is Veiled in Language.
Amanda Holmes, Philosophy, University of Villanova
10.15 Speculative Resources.
Iris van der Tuin, Gender Studies, Utrecht University
11.30 Meteora Alloys : zealous ideations and their architectonic spaces of extension.
Vera Bühlmann, Philosophy, TU Vienna
14.00 Panel Five: IT like'it', the impersonal subject singular.
Moderation by Cris Argüelles
14.15 Spelling Alice. Xenotheka, Architecture, Information, Atom-Letters.
Miro Roman, ETH Zurich
15.15 The Spaces of Machine Learning.
Roberto Bottazzi, Bartlett School of Architecture London
16.30 Artificial Intelligence, Cogito, and Architectonics.
Ludger Hovestadt, ETH Zurich