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Environments: A Discussion with Orit Halpern, Rodrigo Nunes
and Susan Zieger</span></b></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
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is an automated environment? In posing this question the problem
of limits
quickly surfaces. Can an environment be automated? What is an
environment? How
do current developments in artificial intelligence, machine
learning, and
robotics define and compose the territory of environment? Once
automated, how
does an environment govern social relations of labour and
economy, subjectivity
and imagination? Are their temporalities specific to the
automation of worlds
and how does the axis of time tussle with spatialities generated
by automated
systems? Are there modes of orientation and organization
peculiar to automated
environments? What is their political economy and geopolitical
consequence, if
any? </span></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">These
questions form the backdrop to this event, which is not a
workshop, seminar, or
symposium but rather takes the form of a discussion. Following
an opening
provocation by Orit Halpern, Rodrigo Nunes and Susan Zieger will
bring ideas
and material drawn from their research on organizational
cultures and
logistical modernities to the topic of automated environments.</span></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">Orit Halpern, Event Horizons and
Planetary Tests</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">What would we need to learn to
change how we
frame our questions and therefore our designs of artificially
intelligent or
machine learning systems? What might one “learn” from
landscapes? I want to
engage the normative assumptions of figure-ground relations that
model
technologies as separate from environment, society, history, or
even our
imaginaries of the future by taking up this question. In doing
so, I take my
lead from the famous 1972 treatise by Venturi, Brown and Izenour<span
style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">, <i>Learning from Las </i></span><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Vegas</i>, that sought to
develop a design
and architectural vocabulary for the transforming
post-industrial condition
through mapping the city of Las Vegas. Now I seek to develop a
vocabulary and
map for contemporary machine learning and big data
infrastructures by
“learning” from the Atacama Desert in Chile.</span></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">In the course of this talk, I
will draw a map
of the relationships between environment, finance, and big data
infrastructures. Detailing the relationship between big data,
post or
exo-planetary imaginaries, and resource extraction, I will
outline to how we
are imagining our planetary future through our artificial
intelligences. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
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mso-themecolor:text1">Orit Halpern</span></b><span
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Roboto;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">is a Strategic Hire in
Interactive Design and
Theory and an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology
and
Anthropology at Concordia University, Montréal. Halpern’s work
bridges the
histories of science, computing and cybernetics with design and
art practice.
Her most recent book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Beautiful
Data: A
History of Vision and Reason since 1945</i> (Duke University
Press, 2015), is a
genealogy of interactivity and our contemporary obsessions with
“big data” and
data visualization.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Rodrigo
Nunes</span></b><span
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is a
philosophy professor at the Catholic University of Rio de
Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He
is the author of <a
href="https://www.metamute.org/editorial/books/organisation-organisationless-collective-action-after-networks"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Organisation of
Organisationless: Collective
Action After Networks</i></a> (Mute/PML-books, 2014), and
has recently organised
a dossier on the 2013 protests in Brazil for <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Les Temps Modernes</i>. He was formerly a member of
the editorial
collective of Turbulence. His new book, <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Beyond
the Horizontal: Rethinking the Question of Organisation</i>,
is forthcoming
with Verso.</span></p>
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Zieger </span></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1" lang="EN-US">is Professor of English at
the University of California,
Riverside and specializes in nineteenth-century British and
related literatures
and cultures, with an emphasis on the novel, ephemera, and other
mass media
forms. She has written <i>Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race,
and Sexuality in
Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature </i>(University
of
Massachusetts Press, 2008) and <i>The Mediated Mind: Affect,
Ephemera, and
Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century </i>(Fordham University
Press, 2018).
With Nicole Starosielski and Matt Hockenberry, she is editing
the volume <i>Assembly
Codes: The Logistics of Media</i>, forthcoming from Duke
University Press.</span></p>
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