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2022-08-15 22:29:02

Reports Events News AtlasOffice for Applied Complexity ContributorsAbout ReportsEventsNewsAtlasContributorsAbout OfAC recognizes that societies are now irreversibly complex. Plotting complexity is a necessary condition for positive societal change. OfAC intervenes to advance sociocultural complexification. Understanding, translating and mobilizing complexity is our mission. Reports Images, Information, and Meaning Claire LehmannPieter SchoolwerthPeter WolfendaleJoshua JohnsonThe Demons’ Butterfly Collection: Roman Frigg on Modelling Dynamic Systems Roman FriggAugmentation and Alienation: Between Emancipation and Control Joshua JohnsonPatricia ReedKeith TilfordEventsJul 26, 2016New YorkImages, Information, and MeaningMiguel Abreu GalleryWhere is the meaning of an artwork? Does it come from the object that we view? From the artist’s intention? From the viewer’s interpretation? Or from the culture and institutions which enshrine it? Taking recent essays by writer and artist Claire Lehmann and philosopher Peter Wolfendale as a point of departure, this event proposes to examine the multiple channels which inform the production and reception of art, and to locate new ways of thinking through these processes. Mar 06, 2016LondonComplexity in TateTate BritainOfAC sits down with philosopher Roman Frigg, for a conversation on the potential and pitfalls of modelling complex systems. Professor Frigg presents a critical look at our current tools for constructing models, our epistemic limitations, and the consequences for prediction given these constraints.Mar 01, 2016New YorkAugmentation and Alienation: Between Emancipation and ControlParsons School of DesignWhat role does the problem of Alienation play in the construction of our future — is it a condition to be eliminated or augmented? What impact does augmentation have on our relation to the question of representation? Finally, to what degree does the augmentation of our capacities constrain or enable human freedom?NewsJul 15, 2016#AGI: Accelerate General IntellectJun 07, 2016Liquidity SessionJun 07, 2016Berlin Summit, Utopian UnionAtlasRobustnessFrontiersNonlinearityFeedback© 2022 OfACFounded by Diann Bauer, Joshua Johnson, Suhail Malik, Victoria Ivanova, Patricia Reed, Keith Tilford, & Natalia ZuluagaOfAC Mailing List