Dear Nettimers, I would like to invite you all the Schemas of Uncertainty Symposium to be held in Amsterdam next week. From divination to machine learning the talks will explore the relationship between prediction and prescription, considering uncertainty as a generative space for a multiplicity of futures. Please see below for more info,
Best, Callum You are invited to [image: Image] [image: Image] The symposium will take place on the *18th of April 11.00—18.00* at the Large Auditorium (theorietrap) in the FEDLEV building at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. ✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ Talks ✧ Pre-emption and the Black Technical Object, Ramon Amaro. ✧ Algorithms as Cartomancy, Flavia Dzodan. ✧ The Future-Oracular: Prediction, Divination and the Politics of Certainty, Emily Rosamond. ✧ Modernity / Coloniality and Defuturing, Rolando Vazquez. Readings and performances ✧ Holly Childs, Circular Ruins and Ex-Soulmates. ✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ Schemas of Uncertainty <https://www.facebook.com/events/405270183599215/> takes prediction from a historical phenomenon to one of the techno-capitalist present (predictive text, polls, targeted advertising) and investigates the risks and possibilities emerging. From divination to machine learning, it explores the relation between prediction and prescription, considering uncertainty as a generative space for a multiplicity of futures. Organised and Facilitated by Callum Copley and Danae Io Graphics by Bin Koh
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