Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution theconference@mediaevolution.se https://videos.theconference.se Media Evolution is a membership organization that help media industries to innovate and grow. The videos in this podcast are generated at our annual conference The Conference and lectures we arrange throughout the year. http://www.mediaevolution.se en-us Visualplatform http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution Videos generated by Media Evolution Media Evolution is a membership organization that help media industries to innovate and grow. The videos in this podcast are generated at our annual conference The Conference and lectures we arrange throughout the year. http://www.mediaevolution.se media, music, games, publishing, future, social, tv, film, 334841 episodic no https://videos.theconference.se/files/rv0.0/sitelogo.gif https://videos.theconference.se http://videos.theconference.se/susanne-wedlich-natural <p><span><p><b>“Oceans - I am sorry to say this - are covered from top to bottom in slime.”</b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p>Life Is Slimey. What is slime? You wonder about that often, don’t you? Susanne Wedlich, the author of the book “Slime - A Natural History” does, too. If you ever write a book that several booksellers refuse to put on the shelves in sheer disgust, you will know that you’re onto something.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Inspired by love stories of snails, Susanne became an expert on slime. Have you realised how much slime is all around us? With the statement “all life is slimey”, Susanne sums up the versatile nature of slime. Sometimes it functions as glue, lubricant, filter or for defence purposes. Sometimes it is part of larger networks like wetlands. There is no exact definition of slime but it is rather a quality of material. Think of stiff water - slime accumulates a lot of water that is bound in a multidimensional network. It has the very cool ability to keep danger away, while remaining open. Have you ever wondered about how to establish healthy boundaries for yourself, while being open for connection with other beings? Slime can do that.</p><p><br></p><p>It is smart and has memory - this was exemplified by an experiment in Tokyo where researchers put slime on a city map and placed oatmeal on the outside edges. Slime then figured out the most effective way to reach the oatmeal. Fascinatingly, the slime trails resembled the actual transportation network map of Tokyo. She concluded her talk with the urge to find and preserve the right balance of slime in our lives: too much and too little is equally bad.</p></span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/susanne-wedlich-natural"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968556/77234397/e38b45566a275140541ff6253a1cb88b/standard/download-9-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://videos.theconference.se/photo/77234397 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:58:46 GMT Susanne Wedlich – (Natural) Intelligence “Oceans - I am sorry to say this - are covered from top to bottom in slime.”Life Is Slimey. What is slime? You wonder about that often, don’t you? Susanne Wedlich, the author of the book “Slime - A Natural History” does, too. If you ever write a book that several booksellers refuse to put on the shelves in sheer disgust, you will know that you’re onto something.Inspired by love stories of snails, Susanne became an expert on slime. Have you realised how much slime is all around us? With the statement “all life is slimey”, Susanne sums up the versatile nature of slime. Sometimes it functions as glue, lubricant, filter or for defence purposes. Sometimes it is part of larger networks like wetlands. There is no exact definition of slime but it is rather a quality of material. Think of stiff water - slime accumulates a lot of water that is bound in a multidimensional network. It has the very cool ability to keep danger away, while remaining open. Have you ever wondered about how to establish healthy boundaries for yourself, while being open for connection with other beings? Slime can do that.It is smart and has memory - this was exemplified by an experiment in Tokyo where researchers put slime on a city map and placed oatmeal on the outside edges. Slime then figured out the most effective way to reach the oatmeal. Fascinatingly, the slime trails resembled the actual transportation network map of Tokyo. She concluded her talk with the urge to find and preserve the right balance of slime in our lives: too much and too little is equally bad. “Oceans - I am sorry to say this - are covered from top to bottom in slime.”Life Is Slimey. What is slime? You wonder about that often, don’t you? Susanne Wedlich, the author of the book “Slime - A Natural History” does, too. If you ever write a... Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution 27:20 <p><span><p><b>“Oceans - I am sorry to say this - are covered from top to bottom in slime.”</b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p>Life Is Slimey. What is slime? You wonder about that often, don’t you? Susanne Wedlich, the author of the book “Slime - A Natural History” does, too. If you ever write a book that several booksellers refuse to put on the shelves in sheer disgust, you will know that you’re onto something.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Inspired by love stories of snails, Susanne became an expert on slime. Have you realised how much slime is all around us? With the statement “all life is slimey”, Susanne sums up the versatile nature of slime. Sometimes it functions as glue, lubricant, filter or for defence purposes. Sometimes it is part of larger networks like wetlands. There is no exact definition of slime but it is rather a quality of material. Think of stiff water - slime accumulates a lot of water that is bound in a multidimensional network. It has the very cool ability to keep danger away, while remaining open. Have you ever wondered about how to establish healthy boundaries for yourself, while being open for connection with other beings? Slime can do that.</p><p><br></p><p>It is smart and has memory - this was exemplified by an experiment in Tokyo where researchers put slime on a city map and placed oatmeal on the outside edges. Slime then figured out the most effective way to reach the oatmeal. Fascinatingly, the slime trails resembled the actual transportation network map of Tokyo. She concluded her talk with the urge to find and preserve the right balance of slime in our lives: too much and too little is equally bad.</p></span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/susanne-wedlich-natural"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968556/77234397/e38b45566a275140541ff6253a1cb88b/standard/download-9-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> 2022 intelligence natural intelligence slime http://videos.theconference.se/christina-agapakis-natural <p><span><p><b>"The future is synthetic."</b></p><p><br></p><p>How do you feel about synthetics? Are you thinking about a wildly sticky, static electric, polyester shirt right now? Many of us have negative connotations of synthetics as something unnatural, artificial and based on ancient fossil fueled techniques. The history of science up until now has placed nature by definition as separate and below humans, thereby creating a division between nature and technology.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Christina Agapakis from Gingko Bioworks introduces in her talk the “meatverse”, her vivid vision for society, where we (re)unite technology and nature. She asks big questions like how might we create a new kind of culture around biological development with nature? How might we design biological tools regenerative for all beings without the use of fossil fuels? How might biological programmers log into the ‘wood wide web’ to help co-create new forests?</p><p><br></p><p>She closes her talk with a call to celebrate nature and technology and to reflect how we might use nature without filling the world with garbage.</p></span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/christina-agapakis-natural"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968578/77234587/ebc0ff422cb6f506755288d099cefdcb/standard/download-6-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://videos.theconference.se/photo/77234587 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:53:53 GMT Christina Agapakis – (Natural) Intelligence "The future is synthetic."How do you feel about synthetics? Are you thinking about a wildly sticky, static electric, polyester shirt right now? Many of us have negative connotations of synthetics as something unnatural, artificial and based on ancient fossil fueled techniques. The history of science up until now has placed nature by definition as separate and below humans, thereby creating a division between nature and technology.Christina Agapakis from Gingko Bioworks introduces in her talk the “meatverse”, her vivid vision for society, where we (re)unite technology and nature. She asks big questions like how might we create a new kind of culture around biological development with nature? How might we design biological tools regenerative for all beings without the use of fossil fuels? How might biological programmers log into the ‘wood wide web’ to help co-create new forests?She closes her talk with a call to celebrate nature and technology and to reflect how we might use nature without filling the world with garbage. "The future is synthetic."How do you feel about synthetics? Are you thinking about a wildly sticky, static electric, polyester shirt right now? Many of us have negative connotations of synthetics as something unnatural, artificial and based on... Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution 22:01 <p><span><p><b>"The future is synthetic."</b></p><p><br></p><p>How do you feel about synthetics? Are you thinking about a wildly sticky, static electric, polyester shirt right now? Many of us have negative connotations of synthetics as something unnatural, artificial and based on ancient fossil fueled techniques. The history of science up until now has placed nature by definition as separate and below humans, thereby creating a division between nature and technology.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Christina Agapakis from Gingko Bioworks introduces in her talk the “meatverse”, her vivid vision for society, where we (re)unite technology and nature. She asks big questions like how might we create a new kind of culture around biological development with nature? How might we design biological tools regenerative for all beings without the use of fossil fuels? How might biological programmers log into the ‘wood wide web’ to help co-create new forests?</p><p><br></p><p>She closes her talk with a call to celebrate nature and technology and to reflect how we might use nature without filling the world with garbage.</p></span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/christina-agapakis-natural"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968578/77234587/ebc0ff422cb6f506755288d099cefdcb/standard/download-6-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> 2022 intelligence natural intelligence http://videos.theconference.se/qa-natural-intelligence <p><span><p>Q&amp;A for the session&nbsp;(Natural) Intelligence featuring&nbsp;Susanne Wedlich and&nbsp;Christina Agapakis.<br></p> </span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/qa-natural-intelligence"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968567/77367528/05bb05f20407cf68d4579dcaf2202796/standard/download-11-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://videos.theconference.se/photo/77367528 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:53:27 GMT Q&A – (Natural) Intelligence QA for the session(Natural) Intelligence featuringSusanne Wedlich andChristina Agapakis. QA for the session(Natural) Intelligence featuringSusanne Wedlich andChristina Agapakis. Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution 06:20 <p><span><p>Q&amp;A for the session&nbsp;(Natural) Intelligence featuring&nbsp;Susanne Wedlich and&nbsp;Christina Agapakis.<br></p> </span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/qa-natural-intelligence"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968567/77367528/05bb05f20407cf68d4579dcaf2202796/standard/download-11-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> 2022 intelligence natural intelligence http://videos.theconference.se/simone-rebaudengo-artificial <p><p><b>“Is 65% spoon-ness a spoon?”</b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b>“Something truly smart might rather do something unexpected.”</b></p><p><br></p><p>Simone Rebaudengo is exploring the way we are living and interacting with networked and autonomous things. In this talk he is showing us some of those experiments and explorations, challenging the mainstream perception of AI. He is humourising and democratising the understanding of, and relations to artificial (or other) intelligences.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>oio.studio, or “The other intelligences operation” explore different kinds of intelligences. What is AI? Is it talking cylinders? What else? Is it possible to co-design a product together with an AI from scratch? Is there maybe something to learn in trying to create an object in the hardest way possible? By putting together AI and craftsmen with artisanal intelligence and exploring a continuous back and forth between human and machine, you start to get interesting results - things that no human would have designed themselves. How do we live with other intelligences? What if there is an actual ecosystem of intelligences, of connectivities. Can an object have an intelligence, a history, a future? Instead of focusing on the artificial, autonomous and anthropomorphic, we could rather look at artisanal, augmenting, adapting, acceptable (and many other) intelligences. </p></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/simone-rebaudengo-artificial"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968559/77243741/c98a6f49761fb948df018df82ba0826a/standard/download-8-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://videos.theconference.se/photo/77243741 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:50:35 GMT Simone Rebaudengo – (Artificial) Intelligence “Is 65% spoon-ness a spoon?”“Something truly smart might rather do something unexpected.”Simone Rebaudengo is exploring the way we are living and interacting with networked and autonomous things. In this talk he is showing us some of those experiments and explorations, challenging the mainstream perception of AI. He is humourising and democratising the understanding of, and relations to artificial (or other) intelligences.oio.studio, or “The other intelligences operation” explore different kinds of intelligences. What is AI? Is it talking cylinders? What else? Is it possible to co-design a product together with an AI from scratch? Is there maybe something to learn in trying to create an object in the hardest way possible? By putting together AI and craftsmen with artisanal intelligence and exploring a continuous back and forth between human and machine, you start to get interesting results - things that no human would have designed themselves. How do we live with other intelligences? What if there is an actual ecosystem of intelligences, of connectivities. Can an object have an intelligence, a history, a future? Instead of focusing on the artificial, autonomous and anthropomorphic, we could rather look at artisanal, augmenting, adapting, acceptable (and many other) intelligences. “Is 65% spoon-ness a spoon?”“Something truly smart might rather do something unexpected.”Simone Rebaudengo is exploring the way we are living and interacting with networked and autonomous things. In this talk he is showing us some of those... Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution 17:07 <p><p><b>“Is 65% spoon-ness a spoon?”</b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b>“Something truly smart might rather do something unexpected.”</b></p><p><br></p><p>Simone Rebaudengo is exploring the way we are living and interacting with networked and autonomous things. In this talk he is showing us some of those experiments and explorations, challenging the mainstream perception of AI. He is humourising and democratising the understanding of, and relations to artificial (or other) intelligences.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>oio.studio, or “The other intelligences operation” explore different kinds of intelligences. What is AI? Is it talking cylinders? What else? Is it possible to co-design a product together with an AI from scratch? Is there maybe something to learn in trying to create an object in the hardest way possible? By putting together AI and craftsmen with artisanal intelligence and exploring a continuous back and forth between human and machine, you start to get interesting results - things that no human would have designed themselves. How do we live with other intelligences? What if there is an actual ecosystem of intelligences, of connectivities. Can an object have an intelligence, a history, a future? Instead of focusing on the artificial, autonomous and anthropomorphic, we could rather look at artisanal, augmenting, adapting, acceptable (and many other) intelligences. </p></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/simone-rebaudengo-artificial"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968559/77243741/c98a6f49761fb948df018df82ba0826a/standard/download-8-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> 2022 AI artificial intelligence intelligence http://videos.theconference.se/nick-seaver-artificial <p><span><p><b>“Sticky websites are traps designed to capture people.”</b></p><p><br></p><p>Artisanal traps have two faces: where hunter and prey, two entities, meet. Computers are a kind of human trap. Can we see the image of the hunter and the prey in these computer-traps in the same way as the anthropologic traps? The interface is in fact the meeting point in between worlds.</p><p><br></p><p>Engagement is in the very structure of how our technical products work. This means that reimagining the relations between designers, coders, and users is the way to “get out of the trap”.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Nick Seaver&nbsp;is an anthropologist of technology who studies how people use technology to make sense of cultural things. In this talk he explores how we throughout history have created traps. We used to do it to capture animals, today we are capturing human minds through digital screens, a phenomenon called “addiction by design” and “sticky websites”.<br></p></span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/nick-seaver-artificial"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968571/77243900/31c2d5b360eefdacd08f1c77387f263d/standard/download-8-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://videos.theconference.se/photo/77243900 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:50:29 GMT Nick Seaver – (Artificial) Intelligence “Sticky websites are traps designed to capture people.”Artisanal traps have two faces: where hunter and prey, two entities, meet. Computers are a kind of human trap. Can we see the image of the hunter and the prey in these computer-traps in the same way as the anthropologic traps? The interface is in fact the meeting point in between worlds.Engagement is in the very structure of how our technical products work. This means that reimagining the relations between designers, coders, and users is the way to “get out of the trap”.Nick Seaveris an anthropologist of technology who studies how people use technology to make sense of cultural things. In this talk he explores how we throughout history have created traps. We used to do it to capture animals, today we are capturing human minds through digital screens, a phenomenon called “addiction by design” and “sticky websites”. “Sticky websites are traps designed to capture people.”Artisanal traps have two faces: where hunter and prey, two entities, meet. Computers are a kind of human trap. Can we see the image of the hunter and the prey in these computer-traps in the... Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution 15:26 <p><span><p><b>“Sticky websites are traps designed to capture people.”</b></p><p><br></p><p>Artisanal traps have two faces: where hunter and prey, two entities, meet. Computers are a kind of human trap. Can we see the image of the hunter and the prey in these computer-traps in the same way as the anthropologic traps? The interface is in fact the meeting point in between worlds.</p><p><br></p><p>Engagement is in the very structure of how our technical products work. This means that reimagining the relations between designers, coders, and users is the way to “get out of the trap”.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Nick Seaver&nbsp;is an anthropologist of technology who studies how people use technology to make sense of cultural things. In this talk he explores how we throughout history have created traps. We used to do it to capture animals, today we are capturing human minds through digital screens, a phenomenon called “addiction by design” and “sticky websites”.<br></p></span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/nick-seaver-artificial"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968571/77243900/31c2d5b360eefdacd08f1c77387f263d/standard/download-8-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> 2022 AI artificial intelligence intelligence http://videos.theconference.se/maya-indira-ganesh-artificial <p><span><p><b>“Lager networks might have a slight conscious.”</b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p>Maya Indira Ganesh is a cultural scientist who explores the poetics and policies of AI and metaphors, asking the question what do we mean when we say AI?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Language is metaphorical, bridging the gap between our feelings and the thing itself. Why are metaphors important in the language of AI? It allows us to understand and convey things that are complex. The person who controls the metaphors sets AI in motion, it lets us think about the future relationship and needs to be described with clarity and regulations. So, what do we actually want AI to do?</p></span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/maya-indira-ganesh-artificial"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968571/77244154/8f62879f8a77939e582f1a2f8d2ff91a/standard/download-8-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://videos.theconference.se/photo/77244154 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:50:21 GMT Maya Indira Ganesh – (Artificial) Intelligence “Lager networks might have a slight conscious.”Maya Indira Ganesh is a cultural scientist who explores the poetics and policies of AI and metaphors, asking the question what do we mean when we say AI?Language is metaphorical, bridging the gap between our feelings and the thing itself. Why are metaphors important in the language of AI? It allows us to understand and convey things that are complex. The person who controls the metaphors sets AI in motion, it lets us think about the future relationship and needs to be described with clarity and regulations. So, what do we actually want AI to do? “Lager networks might have a slight conscious.”Maya Indira Ganesh is a cultural scientist who explores the poetics and policies of AI and metaphors, asking the question what do we mean when we say AI?Language is metaphorical, bridging the gap... Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution 23:02 <p><span><p><b>“Lager networks might have a slight conscious.”</b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p>Maya Indira Ganesh is a cultural scientist who explores the poetics and policies of AI and metaphors, asking the question what do we mean when we say AI?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Language is metaphorical, bridging the gap between our feelings and the thing itself. Why are metaphors important in the language of AI? It allows us to understand and convey things that are complex. The person who controls the metaphors sets AI in motion, it lets us think about the future relationship and needs to be described with clarity and regulations. So, what do we actually want AI to do?</p></span></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/maya-indira-ganesh-artificial"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968571/77244154/8f62879f8a77939e582f1a2f8d2ff91a/standard/download-8-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> 2022 AI artificial intelligence intelligence http://videos.theconference.se/qa-artificial-intelligence <p><p>Q&amp;A for the session&nbsp;(Artificial) Intelligence featuring Simone Rebaudengo (oio.studio), Nick Seaver (Tufts University) and&nbsp;Maya Indira Ganesh (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence)</p></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/qa-artificial-intelligence"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968560/77367536/cb2a79e5f5e597038124eb9bd40c5a2b/standard/download-11-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> http://videos.theconference.se/photo/77367536 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:49:49 GMT Q&A – (Artificial) Intelligence QA for the session(Artificial) Intelligence featuring Simone Rebaudengo (oio.studio), Nick Seaver (Tufts University) andMaya Indira Ganesh (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence) QA for the session(Artificial) Intelligence featuring Simone Rebaudengo (oio.studio), Nick Seaver (Tufts University) andMaya Indira Ganesh (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence) Video Archive – The Conference by Media Evolution 06:42 <p><p>Q&amp;A for the session&nbsp;(Artificial) Intelligence featuring Simone Rebaudengo (oio.studio), Nick Seaver (Tufts University) and&nbsp;Maya Indira Ganesh (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence)</p></p><p><a href="http://videos.theconference.se/qa-artificial-intelligence"><img src="http://videos.theconference.se/64968560/77367536/cb2a79e5f5e597038124eb9bd40c5a2b/standard/download-11-thumbnail.jpg" width="75" height=""/></a></p> 2022 ai artificial intelligence intelligence