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From mutated genes in cancer cells to viral memes invading our brains, we are more vulnerable than we like to think.

Symposium organized by the Center for Philosophical Technologies, hosted by Human Economies Group at the Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.   Our speakers guests are: Sean Maliehe, Sibel Kusimba, AbdouMaliq Simone.   If you would like to participate, you can obtain a free ticket to the event, by clicking this link.

A Symposium organized by the Center for Philosophical Technologies. Our speaker guest are: Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Marget Grebowicz, Ron Broglio, Cala Coatz, Shingun Singha, Stephen Loo, Silvia Neretti, Luke Kautz, Garrett Johnson, Darjia Medic. The event is free.

These seminars will be built around two distinct but related art projects that channel ecological philosophy, and ecological questioning, through creative practice.

This fellowship provides support to a student enrolled in an undergraduate degree in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. The fellowship offers professional development support in the amount of $1500.

There is a fundamental disjuncture between the complexity of the combined critical conditions that are now putting life on Earth at risk and the divisions and theories of knowledge that are trying to understand the situation instrumentally.

A political and intellectual dislocation from the actuality and depth of the crisis is at work.

This talk is based on a phrase by Hanna Arendt in The Human Condition, which seems to point to a potential Western-Eurocentric-Arendtian bias.

Just because someone has done it doesn’t mean it’s humanly possible. For the past century, expedition doctors have been coming to the Himalayas in order to solve the mystery of altitude: is summitting the highest peaks without oxygen possible for the human body? A conclusive answer continues to elude them, despite over 200 no-oxygen ascents […]

Matylda Krzykowski is our first guest in this year’s speaker series edition. During the specially developed public presentation format “Desktop Exhibition”, the curator clicks through files on the desktop, in a manner akin to walking through a physical space and guiding visitors through an exhibition.    

At the Center for Philosophical Technologies, FoAM’s co-founders Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney will discuss their interstitial techniques for living with uncertainty, combining experiential futures, generative technologies, lab craft, and the ephemeral tools of panpsychism. FoAM is a network for speculative culture at the intersection of art, science, nature, and everyday life. As strategies of […]

Animation is defined here as unstable sensory engagement that produces a radical space-time matrix that is vibrational; enhancing or decreasing our capacities for full agency and potential in the world, based on the choices made in relation to what we masticate and ingest: biopolitics that is a coming into the relation of the gap between a mediated death and an ersatz life.

In this talk, I will explore how these experiments in biotechnical animation—seemingly extraordinary when set against the familiar story of disenchanted science—can be situated in a long tradition of “soul-work” as the key to the making of the modern world. By approaching the world as if it doesn’t have soul—anima—moderns, like today’s biotechnologists, have effectively disavowed animism only to pursue their own form of animation.

Vannevar Bush’s 1945 essay, As We May Think, has been widely heralded, especially by the pioneers of hypertext, as the beginning of computer-supported-cooperative work of interface theory — condensed into his proposal for a device called the memex to help researchers search, record, analyze, and communicate information. The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, […]

Gilles Deleuze has transformed a broad range of academic fields. Where has Deleuze studied today and what are its frontiers? Join us for this conversation.

With all their different operating systems, how can we share and exchange knowledge, skills, and production means between fashion, technology, and philosophy?

The installation gives human visitors an ecstatic glimpse into their own extinction, one which lacks the apocalyptic anxiety and insistent doomsday rhetoric that has become commonplace in the Anthropocene discourse.

MOCO is the international symposium on movement and computing. MOCO aims to gather academics and practitioners interested in the computational study, modeling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information. MOCO is positioned within emerging interdisciplinary domains between art & science.

How might design, philosophy, science and mythology inform each other, while producing fresh and imaginative multi-species responses to address the genesis and future of ecological devastation?

An instalment of the Synthetic Times series: a collaborative and iterative design project that critiques and reimagines human and nonhuman time in relation to modern and future technologies.

Plastic is becoming a bigger problem because it does not end and slowly takes over our world. Even our wardrobe!

In her timely novel Tender is the Flesh, the prizewinning Argentinian author Augustina Bazterrica tells the grim tale of Marcos who runs a factory that slaughters humans for their meat after a global pandemic has wiped out animals.

Feminist and queer architectural theorists and practitioners have challenged the omnipresent binary of public and private in architectural discourses.

On the spiritual life of a commodity across secular bordering.

In occasion of the itinerant exhibition of the exhibition “Design Transfigured / Waste Reimagined” by Dutch Invertuals, SMoCA and CPT co-host a series of events titled, “Design Reboot”.

“Design Transfigured / Waste Reimagined” recognizes a fresh approach to addressing the current state of our depleted and polluted environment; an extreme and inventive kind of upcycling. In a religious context, transfiguration is “a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state.” Waste is overtaking natural resources, but these 30 […]

In occasion of the itinerant exhibition of the exhibition“Design Transfigured / Waste Reimagined” by Dutch Invertuals, SMoCA and CPT co-host a series of events titled, “Design Reboot”! 

Spring field trip in the framework of the Dust and Shadows project.

Symposium related to Ontogenetics Process Group – a research group is animated by the growing consensus in the sciences and the humanities that the living world in all its modes—biological, semiotic, economic, affective, social, etc.—escapes finite schema of description.

Fieldtrip II related to Dust and Shadows project

This installation transports participants to an archeological dig in the desert southwest.

Summer field trip, part of Dust and Shadows project. A collaborative art and design project that reimagines how the mythic and ritualistic past of the desert southwest might be inherited and reinvigorated to intervene in how humans and nonhumans dwell in the rapidly urbanizing desert.

What can we learn about contemporary geological processes and the role of humans therein by looking at media objects and digital culture? The symposium Geo Mediations celebrates the entanglements of media and geological events. The evening program brings together a wide ensemble of voices in both talks and artwork presentations.

Spring field trip as a part of the Dust and Shadows project.

Symposium related to Ontogenetics Process Group, New Mexico edition.

Culminating in a multimedia exhibition in downtown Phoenix, the project invites participants to challenge their assumptions about how to situate human history within incomprehensible scales of time in the desert.

Why is the River Laughing?

Multimedia design and performance installation

Perpetual Peace Project opening workshop and conference, University of Warsaw, Poland

Workshop and conference hosted by University Jan Evangelista Purkyne

Workshop hosted by the Perpetual Peace Project, in collaboration with the Central New York Humanities Corridor

Full-day conference and workshop hosted by the Cornell Humanities Center

CPT hosts a workshop on ethics in the built environment with the Built-environment Institute for Applied Studies: Africa and the Middle East (BIAS: AME)

CPT runs it’s 10th summer school on Design and Society

In collaboration with the School of Materialist Research, the CPT hosts a graduate design summer institute in Olympiada, Greece. Goldsmiths University of London and Politecnico di Milano are also collaborators on the project.

CPT hosts the annual conference of the SLSA: https://alien2023slsa.com

The issue was specially designed for DI: https://techniquesjournal.com/issue/dark-infrastructure/

The School of Materialist Research’s annual Summer Institute for Advanced Design Practices 2025 explores the relations between the natural and the artificial in the context of design research and practice. In doing so, the summer institute aims to trouble neat and tidy divisions between the two and also work against the easy subsumption of one […]