AI (Ancestral Immediacies): The Collective Brain

The programme considers how such notions, which typically emphasize the brain’s separation from the body, have influenced the development of computational architectures that assert individualism and separability.



Expanding this view of the brain to include recent trends in computation—such as using the behaviour of slime moulds and fungi to solve problems—the programme asks what other concepts of the brain exist and have existed, and how they might inform social ideas of intelligence in more collective ways. Taking into account plants, fungi, and spirits on the one hand, and digital humans and collective neurons on the other, the programme questions if and how AI might be used to reconnect to collective ideas of intelligence and to a wounded Earth.


With contributions from:
Lewis Gordon, Chien-hung Huang, Ida Momennejad, Iz A. Nettere, Interspecifics, Ymoirá Micall, Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez

 

Program:

Friday, 30.5.2025

19:00
D1G1TAL anthropophagy x ALGØRITHMIC cannibalism–a lecture-performance in two acts or more
Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez
Angie Stardust Foyer
In English with simultaneous German translation
Free entry


19:30
AJEJU: Estratégias coreográficas para engolir o mundo (Choreographic strategies to devour the world)
Ymoirá Micall
Performance
Bessie Head Foyer
Free entry


20:30
Never Beyond Technology but Not Only So
Lewis R. Gordon
Keynote
Angie Stardust Foyer
In English with simultaneous German translation
Free entry


22:00
YMOMÔ
DJ-Set
Magnus Hirschfeld Bar
Free entry


Saturday, 31.5.2025


17:30
AI-Enabled Adolescence: EVA in a Schizo Present c.1990
Keynote by Chieng-hung Huang, followed by a conversation with Chang Qu and Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss
Angie Stardust Foyer
In English with simultaneous German translation
Free entry


19:00
The Intelligence of Life: Rethinking Minds, Machines, and Our 
Living World
Ida Momennejad in collaboration with Iz A. Nettere
Angie Stardust Foyer
In English with simultaneous German translation
Free entry


21:00
Entrainment
Interspecifics (DAAD sound and music fellows)
Performance
Haunani-Kay Trask Saal
Free entry