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Mechanical Cognition

Mechanical CognitionMechanical Cognition

A program of performative talks and artistic explorations of mechanical sentience and human awareness.

20 Apr. 2016
Carlton Connect Initiative

A program of performative talks and artistic explorations of mechanical sentience and human awareness.

Featuring:

  • Antoinette J. Citizen
  • Ben Kolaitis
  • Nathan John Thompson

Antoinette J. Citizen presents an electro-mechanical performative logging device that Citizen uses to speculate on the current contemporary desire for the datafication of self-knowledge. 
Benjamin Kolaitis will present a new work commissioned by Naturestrip and Liquid Architecture. Which poses the question, “Would our behaviour change if our immediate mortality was personally threatened by climate data and statistics”. In partial answer, Kolaitis has re-constructed a mechanical business necktie – an industrial makeover for the workwear icon that is a symbol of business and politics – and incorporated a robotic function that tightens the necktie in accordance with collected data used to measure current states of global warming.
Nathan John Thompson presents Gen-Ottonix and Solar beams a work that uses machines (self built, analogue, lifelike in their behaviour, using custom electronic neural-type networks, simple in design but when fed through multiple systems display behaviour that is remarkably organic) to explore questions of consciousness, mechanical sentience and object oriented ontology.