dear spectrites,
please find here an announcement for our upcoming series of online events / talks run by mur.at, association for net art & net culture Graz. The next event is up for 14. May, featuring sound artist Dario Sanfilippo. All events are free for the public, please register to get the link! More info below, see you soon in the ether! Kind regards, Margarethe (in behalf of mur.at) *~+~*~*** Open Feedback Loop "Open Feedback Loop" is a series of talks and workshops happening as part of the project "autonomous systems" run by mur.at. We present and discuss works, tools, practices and thoughts that deal with autonomy, systemic and eco-systemic theories and interdependence in relation to art and technology and their underlying social and aesthetical paradigms, including contributions from different fields such as sound and digital art, game design and performative art. The series is free and open to the public and offers an open space for inspiration for everyone interested in the field. All events are held online in „big blue button“. Please register via email; entry link is sent upon request. Info and registration: [email protected] More info on the project and further events: https://autonomous.mur.at # OFL 1 – 14. May 2021, 17-19h Vienna time Dario Sanfilippo - Constructing realities Dario Sanfilippo is a sound artist living in Vienna. He works with complex adaptive systems. In his lecture & online performance he presents his work "constructing realities", an autonomous sound installation that is a hommage to the systemic theories of Heinz von Foerster: The talk presents the most recent outcomes of the author‘s research on musical complex adaptive systems (CASes). The first part focuses on the concepts of adaptation and complexity within the framework of CASes and suggests a clear identification of the term in the musical domain. This analysis involves a distinction of the notions of context and information between the engineering field of information theory and the philosophical one of radical constructivism. We will conclude this section by showing that, in this approach, information and context are mutually determining. Then, we will introduce distributed adaptation, a technique that is related to the notion of evolvability in biology and genetic algorithms and that has significantly increased the complexity and long-term variety in music systems during autonomous evolutions. This technique distributes adaptation across higher levels and allows the system to reorganize the relationships among its agents and their structure circularly while interpreting and constructing its context. To conclude, an autonomous live performance piece from 2019-2020, Constructing realities (homage to Heinz von Foerster), which implements the theories mentioned above, will be described showing DSP processes and techniques that relate to evolvability, autopoiesis, fitness, and complexity through agent-based modeling. -- Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka http://suonoreale.mur.at https://wobbly.slackline.mur.at ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
