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The Body is Moving, the Machine is Learning

The Body is Moving, the Machine is Learning is a mixed media work spanning across artificial intelligence, visual art, and contemporary dance. Taking a critical stance towards the existing paradigms that prevail in the field of artificial intelligence, this work is an attempt to reconsider the value system at the core of the machine learning approach. How can we shift away from the rational logic of maximum efficiency and minimum loss and bring back the body into the equation? How can we circumvent the surveillance mechanisms, so that they are not used to track and control the body, but to, rather, teach the machines to be more human-like, less perfect, more analogue, less efficient, more redundant, less boring and mundane, more interesting, surprising and even funny? The starting point for this exploration is the movement of the body. Multiple studies have shown that the natural dynamics of the human body has a...

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∞OS

∞OS /eight-os/ is a free open-source operating system for the bodymind. Its objective is to provide a set of habits, tools and patterns that promote adaptability, resilience and evolutionary development – both on the personal (user) level and in society at large. The core principle of ∞OS is a wave: a build-up or escalation [1] is followed by conservation (assimilation) [2], which is followed by release [3], followed by reorganization (redirection and dissipation) [4], followed by a new process of escalation (response) [1] – like an ∞ (8). ∞OS is a software that runs on the hardware of the human body and that is the primary scale it operates at. Human body is a vessel for discovering, understanding, storing and transmitting information. Life itself has been shaped by evolution and contains many efficient strategies for dealing with the constantly changing world – both on the micro level (biology) and on the macro level (social dynamics). We...

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3AM Event

3AM is an open-source ad-hoc event created to celebrate diversity within the local creative scene and to bring together artists, musicians, activists and various people who are interested and who are ready to be engaged to make things happen in the frame of one night. There are important principles of operation that set 3AM apart from other event series: 1) EQUALITY - The lineup of the event is made from everyone who makes the event possible: cleaners, bar people, artists, organizers, etc. 2) COLLABORATION - Every time a new team of organizers is invited to curate the event; 3) INCLUSIVITY - The open call for works to be presented is distributed among the people who took part in the previous editions of the event; 4) SELF-ORGANIZATION - The event operates based on the Allocation Matrix, which maps the resources needed to create the event to the people who are participating in it - either with tasks or with a financial...

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TAMTAMTAM

TAMTAMTAM was a moving collective of people coming from across the different fields and countries into the whirlpool of ideas, emotions, activities, and interests, which intensify from time to time and even solidify during regularly organized events....

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