Events
Podcast
Non-Human Centered AI
Viraj Joshi is a designer, technologist, and futurist based in London. He designd curious objects and fiction with great affinity towards our technological and social futures. Viraj is also the Creator of Eliza. Eliza is a series [...]
Animal Awareness
Aysha Akhtar, M.D., M.P.H., is a double Board-certified neurologist and preventive medicine/public health specialist. She is demonstrating how there is a mutual benefit to both humans and animals when animals are protected. Dr. Akhtar is the [...]
The Reality of Symbiosis
Sometimes reality catches up with fiction really fast. In their work, designer Noam Youngrak Son often experiments with blurring boundaries between science fiction and reality. Whether it concerns speculative scenario’s on the value of viruses or [...]
Articles
Salmon: A Red Herring by Cooking Sections Review by Oscar Salguero
“In the realm of colour, chemical colour, synthetic colour, nothing remains the same as it was yesterday.” - Esther Leslie [Synthetic Worlds] In the ocean your global positioning is in constant fluctuation. If you are salmon in the wild a krill appeals to you. It is pure sustenance. Carotenoids that tint float, draw you in… “Crustaceans swimming at 63°29’19.8”N, 10°21’55.7”E might be redder than those at 56°52’01.7”N, 6°51’00.6”W, but pinker than those at 56°41’24.9”N, 175°58’53.5”W.” If you are a scientist, synthetic DNA sequences populate your screen [mind]. If you are a designer: Pantone codes, hex codes, systems. A language is pure control. “Salmon: A Red Herring” is [...]
Grieving Machines Tell Apocalyptic Stories to Birds
Have you ever seen robots that communicate with nonhuman animals and plants, or heard of machines that are programmed to learn from their natural environments? Have you ever encountered technologies that collaborate with nonhuman species? It is not very likely that you have, considering how dominant modes of thinking in the West have a history of putting the human species at center stage – and in sharp contrast to some entity called ‘nature’ – when it comes to framing, designing, programming and using technologies.
