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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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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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∞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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