At 10:07 +0100 13/11/17, Cadell Last wrote:
You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition
(ECCO 2017-2018)
Time: Friday November 17, 14h-16h
Place: room PL5.5.61, VUB
Note that this is not in our usual seminar room on the main VUB
Campus, but on the fifth floor of the building situated at the
address:
Pleinlaan 5, 1050 Brussel
(new building on the opposite side of the Pleinlaan/
Boulevard de la Plaine that runs around the Campus, see Google Map:
https://goo.gl/maps/SqCqciisyR22 )
By the way, I think this seminar will be particularly interesting
and I am planning to start a collaboration with the speaker about her
topic, so I warmly invite everyone to come!
Francis
On cosmogony: approaching the
unknowable origin
Katarina Petrovic
<http://www.katarinapetrovic.net/>
Abstract:
Exploring the intersection of art, science and humanities,
Katarina Petrovic's work focuses on the notions of creation, origin
and self-organization. Her interest in the nature of creation,
the one found in the artistic process, language, physics, mythologies
and symbolic order generally, has led her to create several artworks
that go back to the essential contradictions of human thought and
question the existence of an isolated event, a closed system that the
notion of Origin seems to imply.
With a set of concrete practices and mediums, the quest for
unraveling the unknowable Origin becomes an act of creating; a
specific cosmogram weaving together the knowledge of different
disciplines. The talk will present you with her recent works
Lexicon Liber Novus, Cosmologicus and the current research and
prototype work The Collection of Nothing: The World, developed as part
of the Summer Sessions artist in residence program, co-produced by V2_
Lab for the Unstable Media and MoTA in Ljubljana, with support of the
Creative Industries Fund NL.
Bio:
Katarina holds a MMus degree from ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal
Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, and an MFA
equivalent from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. As a
bursary of the French government, she also attended Ecole Nationale
Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. A co-founder of an
association and podcast Femkanje, Katarina is active as a journalist
and a radio host. She is an indicator and author of the
ArtScience Forum & research initiative together with Luke Boorman
and a member of artist associations ULUS, Serbia and Stroom Den
Haag.
Upcoming Seminars
Nov. 24th
Paul B. Rainey
Origins of multicellular life
Dec. 1st
Francis Heylighen
Social systems programming: emotional and behavioural mechanisms
co-opted for social control
Dec. 8th
Francois Taddei
Towards a learning planet
Dec. 15
Mareno de Kort
The Idealists: Setting up an Idea Factory
Dec. 22
Kris Verburgh
The fourth industrial revolution and health: the second biotech
age
[winter holidays]
Jan.12
Marta Lenartowicz
A pragma-semiotic view on money
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Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
