‘Octopus’ is a podcast about individuals in a networked world and their relationships and affiliations with fast evolving networked organisms. Our speculations circle around the interaction between mind and matter and the merger of sensations and the material world.
The Octopus Podcast invite guests from art, academia, science and fringe areas to discuss contemporary issues in the fields of technology, art, society, science and politics. It would find out where areas of exchange and communication between individuals, collectives and new organisms can be found and ask: How we can imagine and describe such otherworldly phenomena.
We seek to invent new perspectives and languages to describe the evolutionary processes unfolding in real-time before our very own eyes and sensors.
‘Octopus’ is a Black Mirror Institute production, created and moderated by Sam Hopkins, Liz Haas aka lizvlx and Hans Bernhard and recorded at KHM, the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.
You can find ‘Octopus’ on your favorite podcast platform;
A video version can be watched on Youtube.
http://blackmirror.institute/octopus
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‘Octopus’ is a podcast about individuals in a networked world and their relationships and affiliations with fast evolving networked organisms. Our speculations circle around the interaction between mind and matter and the merger of sensations and the material world.
The Octopus Podcast invite guests from art, academia, science and fringe areas to discuss contemporary issues in the fields of technology, art, society, science and politics. It would find out where areas of exchange and communication between individuals, collectives and new organisms can be found and ask: How we can imagine and describe such otherworldly phenomena.
We seek to invent new perspectives and languages to describe the evolutionary processes unfolding in real-time before our very own eyes and sensors.
‘Octopus’ is a Black Mirror Institute production, created and moderated by Sam Hopkins, Liz Haas aka lizvlx and Hans Bernhard and recorded at KHM, the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.
You can find ‘Octopus’ on your favorite podcast platform;
A video version can be watched on Youtube.
http://blackmirror.institute/octopus
Our third podcast engages with some of the ideas, and fears, regarding computer-led cognition, as proposed by James Bridle in his book New Dark Age. Our discussion flows, and meanders over a contemporary landscape populated with notions of code/spaces, hyperobjects and computational thinking. We discuss the enmeshing of the digital and the physical environments that we live in, the limitations of computer science and modelling, and the shadow of the male ego in the tech landscape of today. We mull over the significance of Deep Blue and AlphaGo, and the singular obsession with speed in the financial sector. Finally, we end up by opening our imaginations to the explosive contemporary folk culture of conspiracy theories.
Links:
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3002-new-dark-age
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/codespace
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/hyperobjects
https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/this-is-water-by-david-foster-wallace
Octopus Podcast
‘Octopus’ is a podcast about individuals in a networked world and their relationships and affiliations with fast evolving networked organisms. Our speculations circle around the interaction between mind and matter and the merger of sensations and the material world.
The Octopus Podcast invite guests from art, academia, science and fringe areas to discuss contemporary issues in the fields of technology, art, society, science and politics. It would find out where areas of exchange and communication between individuals, collectives and new organisms can be found and ask: How we can imagine and describe such otherworldly phenomena.
We seek to invent new perspectives and languages to describe the evolutionary processes unfolding in real-time before our very own eyes and sensors.
‘Octopus’ is a Black Mirror Institute production, created and moderated by Sam Hopkins, Liz Haas aka lizvlx and Hans Bernhard and recorded at KHM, the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.
You can find ‘Octopus’ on your favorite podcast platform;
A video version can be watched on Youtube.
http://blackmirror.institute/octopus
