Ubiquitous computing has been continuously thinning the line between passive or end-user and active front and back-users (designers, programmers and professionals developing interfaces) through open source and server-based applications, app…Merleau-Ponty, M. (2015). Phenomenology of perception. London: Forgotten Books.
Maturana, H., & Varela, F. (1992). The tree of knowledge: The biological roots of human understanding. Boston: Shambhala Publications.
Mauldin, D. B. (2011). …
Humberto Maturana
scientist · 4 mentions across 2 readings
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Maturana, alongside Varela, developed foundational theories of autopoiesis and circular causality that bridge biological systems and cognitive science—concepts essential for understanding how feedback mechanisms operate in both living organisms and technological systems. In this course, his work appears as a theoretical anchor for examining recursive, self-organizing systems that underpin cybernetic thinking and, by extension, how machine learning and algorithmic systems might be understood as quasi-autonomous entities. His biological roots of understanding inform the seminar's exploration of whether AI systems possess anything resembling agency or intentionality, and how artists might exploit or critique these feedback loops through generative and predictive art.
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This course examines whether artists employing machine learning, generative algorithms, predictive models, and other technics–tools of what Deleuze called “the Societies of Control”– can make art that is evocative, powerful, critical, perha…The Hollerith Tabulator, IBM, Technocracy, Inc, Howard Scott, M. King Hubbert, Joshua Haldeman, the North American Technate, and Elon Musk; Project Phoenix, Arpanet, and the birth of the internet in counterinsurgency; “Feedback Mechanisms a…
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