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Virtual Conversations on the Role of the Radical Imaginary
Virtual Conversations on the Role of the Radical Imaginary
In this series of virtual conversations, we bring together visual artists, scholars, composers, activists, writers, and others to explore what kinds of radical imaginaries can unfold in this moment of pandemic, racial reckoning, economic uncertainty, civil unrest, and environmental crisis. How do we think about what is possible? How can we use our imaginations to build a better present/future? How can we attend to the past in service of the future? And how can we retool and build better more equitable models for living and working together?
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Date
Thursday, Sep 23, 2021 1:00PM
Location
General Admission
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Episode 21: Synthetic Life
Description
Join independent artistic research studio Interspecifics as they discuss their latest work, Codex Virtualis, an evolving collection of virtual hybrid bacterial-AI organisms designed to provide insights into how life might originate in extraterrestrial habitats. Interspecifics will also be joined by SETI Institute Research Scientist Rosalba Bonaccorsi who works in the fields of astrobiology, environmental science, marine geochemistry, and biosedimentology.
We’ll explore what makes the living different from the non-living, how can life can emerge from an ecosystem of algorithms, and whether life is itself an algorithm.
Codex Virtualis is the outcome of the SETI x AI art residency, a partnership between the SETI Institute’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program and ARs Electronica. Veronika Liebl, Director of European Cooperation Ars Electronica and Bettina Forget, Program Director of the SETI Institute’s AIR Program will join the conversation to discuss this partnership and their interest in the field of AI.