Computation Research Lab

Deep Objekt [ ]: Agency at the Computational Turn

Framework: Sepideh Majidi and Reza Negarestani
Curated by: Sepideh Majidi
Assistant to Curator: Maure Coise

Organizers: Sepideh Majidi and Maure Coise

DIAGRAMS
PUBLICATIONS
PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS

eavanaiken

MACHA: landscape & myth

Territorial circulation is the first curve introduced into the continual flow of the earth’s movement. Thomas Nail The Figure of the...

eavanaiken

the bitch cyborg goddess

Macro view In this time of big data, Large Language Models, [and AI dread/worship] and as neoliberal capitalism creates evermore...

imaginative symbiosis through materials, thresholds and collectives: part 3

Francesca Parolin

imaginative symbiosis through materials, thresholds and collectives: part 3

I would like to start this post by saying that the starting point was quite different from how I later wanted to develop this research....

Future Scripts... Burnout: Superpowers, mental exhaustion, and architectures of revenge in the wake of AI and unauthenticated Corpses.

Thasil Suhara Backer

Future Scripts... Burnout: Superpowers, mental exhaustion, and architectures of revenge in the wake of AI and unauthenticated Corpses.

“How does one listen for the groans and cries, the undecipherable songs, the crackle of fire in the cane fields, the laments for the...

imaginative symbiosis through materials, thresholds and collectives: part 2

Francesca Parolin

imaginative symbiosis through materials, thresholds and collectives: part 2

After the permeation of the mirror membrane, one enters a transitional space. This environment consists of networks and connective meshes, p

Odioica 2.0 : Speculative design of a posthuman. A Reflection on Agency & Artificial Intelligence

magentamgnta

Odioica 2.0 : Speculative design of a posthuman. A Reflection on Agency & Artificial Intelligence

AGENCY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MACHINE LEARNING

micklowmichaeldavi

Computational Cunning

A Strange Dialog with ChatGPT You: can you provide a quote showing how heidegger does not see objects as having agency? ChatGPT:...

Andres Milan

Mothertongue

by Andrés Milán Lara As a ghostly presence with the purpose of frightening, technology often delivers objects that change perspective...

The Presuppositions and Semantics of Concept Tracer

Brian Kobylarz

The Presuppositions and Semantics of Concept Tracer

Brian Kobylarz bwkobylarz@gmail.com This blog entry is meant to be a gentle prerequisite to multiple projects I am working on, with...

giannoutakiskosmas

Nick Land's Meltdown AI-fication

AI-generated film based on Nick Land's essay Meltdown

my heart gets so confused over virtual mortality: a project on deaths and afterlives of MMOs

Daria Ivans

my heart gets so confused over virtual mortality: a project on deaths and afterlives of MMOs

Keywords: mapping, user-generated, different chronologies, memory as dispersive scrapings and raw structures; digital archives from...

Antoine Lortie

Beauty Institutions

Discover how artist Antoine Lortie is redefining the artistic landscape by integrating technology and challenging administrative art.

Gill Gatfield

Radical Monuments : AI–IA : Aura & Intelligence in Augmented Reality – Gill Gatfield

My residency research investigates real and imagined AI-infused augmented reality (AR) monuments IRL as tools for radical consciousness...

arashakbari

Sonic Vectors: Possible Parallels Between Quantum Mechanics and Experimental Music in The Post-Digital Age

Abstract Quantum mechanics dictates a reconceptualization of logic, reality, structures, and systems. It deconstructs the ontology of...

rinavvvnnn

Xenoaesthetics: Art as Speculative Empathy

In his seminal work After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux introduces the concept of ancestrality to challenge the anthropocentric...

Jingyi Wang

Build your city, choose your weapon

The bedrock of collective human memory and consensus rests upon the ever-shifting tapestry of human nature. In the realms of computation...

Daniel de la Torre

Feasible horizons

My interest in the disciplinary consequences of the apprehension of human conduct under the form of object, reification, comes from...

Jisoo Seo

The Weather Theatre

When it snowed, people spent their time in the garden, rolling and shaping the snow, throwing it at each other or building snowmen. The...

Sheung Yiu

Inter(Faces)

Contrary to the common wisdom, human tends to 'judge a book by its cover.' Across Eastern and Western cultures, society has developed...

Computational reflections on Art, or What Art could mean to a Computer

adam basanta

Computational reflections on Art, or What Art could mean to a Computer

A colloquial explanation of ideation or spontaneous thought circa 550 BC, via the myth of the birth of Athena, erupting fully formed from...

Shyama VS

The AI dictionary: Whispers Within Words

I am curious about the way words come into being. How do we go from a collective understanding of a sound that shape-shifts into another?...

Media Sculpt : An Allegorical Journey Through Time and Technology (part I)

Sutanuka Jashu

Media Sculpt : An Allegorical Journey Through Time and Technology (part I)

"Media Sculpt: Unveiling hidden narratives of human agency amidst technological advancement. Join the journey through time and technology."

Rahul Juneja

When Kalki met Odin

Rahul Juneja As I finished reminiscing about the story, a frequency spiked from a distance- like a radio constantly trying to tune...

Dahlia Bloomstone

An ode to the exit sign

This project explores the intersections of game theory and the interpersonal. local fishModel = workspace:WaitForChild("FishModel") --...

Wang Yidi

Post-Birth: Redefining Embodiment and Extending the Boundaries of Humanity

Post-humanism encompasses more than just the human tendency to separate consciousness from the body. It requires a wider lens that...

Luca Lee

Thoughts on the Fluidity of Being and Becoming: An Open Letter | By Luca Lee

Thoughts on the Fluidity of Being and Becoming: An Open Letter, by Luca Lee

imaginative symbiosis through materials, thresholds and collectives: part 1

Francesca Parolin

imaginative symbiosis through materials, thresholds and collectives: part 1

I would like to start this post by saying that the starting point was quite different from how I later wanted to develop this research....

james7299

James Irwin: Tapping the digital black box for signs of life

Diagramming the research. An introduction to the project and my approach to the residency.

Bypassing Permission / The Poisoned Well (Initial Stage)

Ian Douglass

Bypassing Permission / The Poisoned Well (Initial Stage)

With AI at the precipice of emergence and mass unemployment as a likely outcome, the stakes seem high. But, as my research will...

Observations from the periphery of a crash-landing site

parham ghalamdar

Observations from the periphery of a crash-landing site

Exploring AI and art, our project redefines painting in the digital age, blending technology with traditional creativity.

Thasil Suhara Backer

Phase One: Image Critique

Propositions, Data Structures, and Procedures Phase One: Image Critique is an activation of the conceptual framework titled We Are Dust,...

Cognitive Dissonance: Re-evaluating AI through Noise and Improvisation

Leslie Predy

Cognitive Dissonance: Re-evaluating AI through Noise and Improvisation

My goal in this residency is to use my background as a noise musician to explore the creative potentials of noise and improvisation in...

gastonwelisch

Narcissus, Agency, and the Mirror as Interface - Gaston Welisch

The friction within AI interfaces—the artefacts, the deliberate opacities—can be valuable. They remind the user of the constructed ...

deleuzerecombinati

Deleuze Recombination and fragmentary writing

Ali Eslami

Tracing the Modular urge - Ali Eslami

Before anything, I want to share a bit of background about this new initiative which shamefully I have no proper title for yet! I chose...

Sliding along the moebius manifold : amplitude and creases // Quassine

Claire Cical

Sliding along the moebius manifold : amplitude and creases // Quassine

his is an attempt to map an unfolding the Moebius manifold that constitutes life.

Kani Lent

4walls

Video- and Soundwork, 3D Animation in Unreal Engine; 03:38 min, single channel, 2023

Byrke Lou

Of goddesses on QM structures - A collection of thoughts

The idea of modelling something human-like, which possesses human-like powers or even super-human powers is probably almost as old as...

some requirements for a retroactive intervention of social being

Daniel de la Torre

some requirements for a retroactive intervention of social being

Something is valuable insofar as the means for its consecution can be attained. Ends and means are always relative, since earlier ends...

Laaraa (Lara Geary)

Anatomy of a thought, unfolding a space

this post is a work in progress What are the possibilities of thinking through or with a machine learning process working with datasets...

Data Cravings: [web meta/bolisms and data digestion]

Fırat Yılmaz

Data Cravings: [web meta/bolisms and data digestion]

Data Cravings is an ongoing research that operates in parallel with accompanying artistic research that focuses on data digestion and web...

Andrew DiLallo

Meta Data Angels

*** Meta Data Angels was displayed outside of Understudy Gallery in downtown Denver from December 2023 - March 2024. Meta Data Angels...

Boris Lesnoy

Opera, Fourier, utopia

when sound met language they conceived baby speech when speech met nothing they conceived music

Claire Jervert

Adventures with Androids

The author with Erica at Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, Kyoto Android Portrait...

GROUP SHOW
OPENING MAY 5TH

Fırat Yusuf Yılmaz - Laaraa (Lara Geary) - Daniel de la Torre - Claire Cical/Quassine - Ali Eslami - Gaston Welisch - Leslie Predy - Thasil Suhara Backer - Jayson Gylen and Parham Ghalamdar - Ian Douglass - James Irwin

Francesca Parolin - Yidi Wang - Dahlia Bloomstone - Rahul Juneja

Sutanuka Jashu - Shyama VS - Adam Basanta - Andy DiLallo - Sheung Yiu - Jisoo Jit Seo - MAGENTA - Jingyi Wang - Rina VN - Antoine Lortie - Daria Ivans Devin Bae - Arash Akbari - Philipp Hesselberger - Gill Gatfield - Malvika Jha

Byrke Lou - Yuval Molina Obedman - Andrés Milán Lara - Brian Muhia -

Brian Kobylarz - Kani Lent - Deleuze Recombination - Boris Lesnoy - Luca Lee

Jarek Lustych - Claire Jervert - Kosmas Giannoutakis - Simin Azarpour

PUBLICATIONS

Website Design: Sepideh

eavanaiken

MACHA: landscape & myth

Territorial circulation is the first curve introduced into the continual flow of the earth’s movement. Thomas Nail The Figure of the...

eavanaiken

the bitch cyborg goddess

Macro view In this time of big data, Large Language Models, [and AI dread/worship] and as neoliberal capitalism creates evermore...

Francesca Parolin

imaginative symbiosis through materials, thresholds and collectives: part 3

I would like to start this post by saying that the starting point was quite different from how I later wanted to develop this research....

Thasil Suhara Backer

Future Scripts... Burnout: Superpowers, mental exhaustion, and architectures of revenge in the wake of AI and unauthenticated Corpses.

“How does one listen for the groans and cries, the undecipherable songs, the crackle of fire in the cane fields, the laments for the...

Francesca Parolin

imaginative symbiosis through materials, thresholds and collectives: part 2

After the permeation of the mirror membrane, one enters a transitional space. This environment consists of networks and connective meshes, p

magentamgnta

Odioica 2.0 : Speculative design of a posthuman. A Reflection on Agency & Artificial Intelligence

AGENCY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MACHINE LEARNING

micklowmichaeldavi

Computational Cunning

A Strange Dialog with ChatGPT You: can you provide a quote showing how heidegger does not see objects as having agency? ChatGPT:...

Andres Milan

Mothertongue

by Andrés Milán Lara As a ghostly presence with the purpose of frightening, technology often delivers objects that change perspective...

Brian Kobylarz

The Presuppositions and Semantics of Concept Tracer

Brian Kobylarz bwkobylarz@gmail.com This blog entry is meant to be a gentle prerequisite to multiple projects I am working on, with...

giannoutakiskosmas

Nick Land's Meltdown AI-fication

AI-generated film based on Nick Land's essay Meltdown

Daria Ivans

my heart gets so confused over virtual mortality: a project on deaths and afterlives of MMOs

Keywords: mapping, user-generated, different chronologies, memory as dispersive scrapings and raw structures; digital archives from...

Antoine Lortie

Beauty Institutions

Discover how artist Antoine Lortie is redefining the artistic landscape by integrating technology and challenging administrative art.

Gill Gatfield

Radical Monuments : AI–IA : Aura & Intelligence in Augmented Reality – Gill Gatfield

My residency research investigates real and imagined AI-infused augmented reality (AR) monuments IRL as tools for radical consciousness...

arashakbari

Sonic Vectors: Possible Parallels Between Quantum Mechanics and Experimental Music in The Post-Digital Age

Abstract Quantum mechanics dictates a reconceptualization of logic, reality, structures, and systems. It deconstructs the ontology of...

rinavvvnnn

Xenoaesthetics: Art as Speculative Empathy

In his seminal work After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux introduces the concept of ancestrality to challenge the anthropocentric...

Jingyi Wang

Build your city, choose your weapon

The bedrock of collective human memory and consensus rests upon the ever-shifting tapestry of human nature. In the realms of computation...

Daniel de la Torre

Feasible horizons

My interest in the disciplinary consequences of the apprehension of human conduct under the form of object, reification, comes from...

Jisoo Seo

The Weather Theatre

When it snowed, people spent their time in the garden, rolling and shaping the snow, throwing it at each other or building snowmen. The...

Sheung Yiu

Inter(Faces)

Contrary to the common wisdom, human tends to 'judge a book by its cover.' Across Eastern and Western cultures, society has developed...

adam basanta

Computational reflections on Art, or What Art could mean to a Computer

A colloquial explanation of ideation or spontaneous thought circa 550 BC, via the myth of the birth of Athena, erupting fully formed from...

Shyama VS

The AI dictionary: Whispers Within Words

I am curious about the way words come into being. How do we go from a collective understanding of a sound that shape-shifts into another?...

Sutanuka Jashu

Media Sculpt : An Allegorical Journey Through Time and Technology (part I)

"Media Sculpt: Unveiling hidden narratives of human agency amidst technological advancement. Join the journey through time and technology."

Rahul Juneja

When Kalki met Odin

Rahul Juneja As I finished reminiscing about the story, a frequency spiked from a distance- like a radio constantly trying to tune...

Dahlia Bloomstone

An ode to the exit sign

This project explores the intersections of game theory and the interpersonal. local fishModel = workspace:WaitForChild("FishModel") --...

Wang Yidi

Post-Birth: Redefining Embodiment and Extending the Boundaries of Humanity

Post-humanism encompasses more than just the human tendency to separate consciousness from the body. It requires a wider lens that...

Luca Lee

Thoughts on the Fluidity of Being and Becoming: An Open Letter | By Luca Lee

Thoughts on the Fluidity of Being and Becoming: An Open Letter, by Luca Lee

Francesca Parolin

imaginative symbiosis through materials, thresholds and collectives: part 1

I would like to start this post by saying that the starting point was quite different from how I later wanted to develop this research....

james7299

James Irwin: Tapping the digital black box for signs of life

Diagramming the research. An introduction to the project and my approach to the residency.

Ian Douglass

Bypassing Permission / The Poisoned Well (Initial Stage)

With AI at the precipice of emergence and mass unemployment as a likely outcome, the stakes seem high. But, as my research will...

parham ghalamdar

Observations from the periphery of a crash-landing site

Exploring AI and art, our project redefines painting in the digital age, blending technology with traditional creativity.

Thasil Suhara Backer

Phase One: Image Critique

Propositions, Data Structures, and Procedures Phase One: Image Critique is an activation of the conceptual framework titled We Are Dust,...

Leslie Predy

Cognitive Dissonance: Re-evaluating AI through Noise and Improvisation

My goal in this residency is to use my background as a noise musician to explore the creative potentials of noise and improvisation in...

gastonwelisch

Narcissus, Agency, and the Mirror as Interface - Gaston Welisch

The friction within AI interfaces—the artefacts, the deliberate opacities—can be valuable. They remind the user of the constructed ...

deleuzerecombinati

Deleuze Recombination and fragmentary writing

Ali Eslami

Tracing the Modular urge - Ali Eslami

Before anything, I want to share a bit of background about this new initiative which shamefully I have no proper title for yet! I chose...

Claire Cical

Sliding along the moebius manifold : amplitude and creases // Quassine

his is an attempt to map an unfolding the Moebius manifold that constitutes life.

Kani Lent

4walls

Video- and Soundwork, 3D Animation in Unreal Engine; 03:38 min, single channel, 2023

Byrke Lou

Of goddesses on QM structures - A collection of thoughts

The idea of modelling something human-like, which possesses human-like powers or even super-human powers is probably almost as old as...

Daniel de la Torre

some requirements for a retroactive intervention of social being

Something is valuable insofar as the means for its consecution can be attained. Ends and means are always relative, since earlier ends...

Laaraa (Lara Geary)

Anatomy of a thought, unfolding a space

this post is a work in progress What are the possibilities of thinking through or with a machine learning process working with datasets...

Fırat Yılmaz

Data Cravings: [web meta/bolisms and data digestion]

Data Cravings is an ongoing research that operates in parallel with accompanying artistic research that focuses on data digestion and web...

Andrew DiLallo

Meta Data Angels

*** Meta Data Angels was displayed outside of Understudy Gallery in downtown Denver from December 2023 - March 2024. Meta Data Angels...

Boris Lesnoy

Opera, Fourier, utopia

when sound met language they conceived baby speech when speech met nothing they conceived music

Claire Jervert

Adventures with Androids

The author with Erica at Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, Kyoto Android Portrait...

DIAGRAMS PUBLICATIONS PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS

GROUP SHOW OPENING MAY 5TH

PUBLICATIONS

Website Design: Sepideh

DIAGRAMS
PUBLICATIONS
PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS

GROUP SHOW
OPENING MAY 5TH