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December 16, 2020
in
by agent Paranyushkin

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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November 18, 2017
in
by agent Paranyushkin

PRAGMA Festival

PRAGMA Festival is an event-based platform for exchange between different practices. It is open to people from across a wide range of fields: arts, music, crafts, business, politics, law, science, engineering, etc. The participants are invited to formulate and present their practices, as well as to get influenced and changed by the practices of others. It's a festival of cultivation, exchange, and alterity, with a particular focus on concrete actions (PRAGMA), which inscribe imaginary into the real. It's not so much about the artists learning how to do accounting or politicians learning how to cook (although this may also happen). The main focus is on bringing something back into your practice from another practice. An artist may learn something about accounting, which may inspire their own artistic practice and compel them to do a totally different piece of art. A politician may learning something about cooking, which will completely change their way...

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January 23, 2016
in
by agent Paranyushkin

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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January 21, 2016
in
by agent Paranyushkin

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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January 21, 2016
in
by agent Paranyushkin

PLAYBerlin

PLAYBerlin was a temporary mission initiated by agent Paranyushkin in collaboration with agents Wengel and Staerber and with the support of various other agents stationed in the city of Berlin. [qodef_blockquote text="Our hands are stretching out to look for somewhere to rest among our immaterial archives so that we can draw out what they fall upon into the solidifying waves of occurrence until we are newly surrounded by such quick crystals." title_tag="h3" width=""] The mission had two objectives: To initiate and facilitate exchange and collaboration between different creative communities in Berlin; To create a modern online archiving system based on life-span of the content; In order to fulfil those objectives PLAYBerlin published regular materials about the known, emerging and unknown protagonists in different scenes and distributed those materials in its large e-mail network accumulated through copying and pasting all the CC emails that people forgot to hide when sending mass e-mails. Thanks to this ingenuine...

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