AI (Ancestral Immediacies): Das kollektive Gehirn – Vorträge, Gespräche, Performances, Installation, DJ-Set

In the organizer's words:

Based on the approaches of neuroscience to a broader concept of intelligence that includes plants, fungi and spirits as well as digital humans and collective neurons, AI (Ancestral Immediacies): The Collective Brain forms of critique of the conventional understanding of the individual brain as the sole center of consciousness, cognition and subjectivity. It addresses reflections on the separation of spirit (mind) and body and how this shapes the development of an information technology that asserts individualism and separability. With a keen eye on reflections on current trends in technoscience - for example in the consideration of the behavior of molds and lichens as a problem-solving approach - the festival discusses alternative metaphors of the mind and brain and how these could influence the social in other ways. Could AI be used to strengthen sociality against pathological influences, unite the mind with the body and repair our relationship with the wounded earth?

With contributions from:
Lewis Gordon, Chien-hung Huang, Ida Momennejad, Iz A. Nettere, Interspecifics, Ymoirá Micall, Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez

Partners:
Funded by the European Union. However, the views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible.

In collaboration with Euridice

Program:

Friday, 30.5.2025

19:00
D1G1TAL anthropophagy x ALGØRITHMIC cannibalism: a lecture-performance in two or more acts
Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez
Angie Stardust Foyer
In English with simultaneous translation into German
Free admission

19:30
AJEJU: Estratégias coreográficas para engolir o mundo (Choreographic strategies to devour the world)
Ymoirá Micall
performance
Bessie Head Foyer
Free admission

20:30
Never Beyond Technology but Not Only So
Lewis R. Gordon
Keynote
Angie Stardust Foyer
In English with simultaneous translation into German
Free admission

22:00
YMOMÔ
DJ set
Magnus Hirschfeld Bar
Free admission

Saturday, 31.5.2025

17:30
AI-Enabled Adolescence: EVA in a Schizo Present c.1990
Keynote by Chieng-hung Huang, followed by a conversation between Chang Qu and Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss
Angie Stardust Foyer
In English with simultaneous translation into German
Free admission

19:00
The intelligence of life: Mind, machines and our living world rethought
Ida Momennejad in collaboration with Iz A. Nettere

Lecture-Performance
Angie Stardust Foyer
In English with simultaneous translation into German
Free admission

21:00
Entrainment
Interspecifics (DAAD sound and music fellows)
performance
Haunani-Kay Trask Hall
Free admission