ZKM Karlsruhe
09.11.2017, 18:00 – 20:00

A round table with Nina Power (philosopher), T’ai Smith (art historian) and Matteo Pasquinelli (media philosopher) on the occasion of the publication of the second issue of Glass Bead journal.

The first issue of Glass Bead’s journal was dedicated to repositioning art in the landscape of reason. This second issue, titled Site 1: Logic Gate, the Politics of the Artifactual Mind, is focused on the fabric of reason itself, and to the ways in which it is currently altered by the emergence of artificial intelligence.

While the capacities of thought are being externalized in machines that increasingly mirror human intelligence, the question of the technical artifactuality of mind and its political ramifications becomes particularly pressing. Far from being limited to the computational instantiation of intelligence, understanding the politics of these developments in artificial intelligence requires acknowledging that mind has always been artifactual.

Site 1: Logic Gate, the Politics of the Artifactual Mind proposes to explore the formal, philosophical and scientific dimensions of this question, so as to consider the role art might play in the lucid unfolding of its possibilities.

Read the new Glass Bead issue