BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6297@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210616T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210616T193000 DTSTAMP:20210416T123903Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/cognitive-sensations-beyond-biol ogy-robots-telepathy-and-artificial-brains/ SUMMARY:: Cognitive Sensations: Beyond Biology: Robots\, Telepathy and Arti ficial Brains DESCRIPTION:Book your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-b iology-robots-telepathy-and-artificial-brains-tickets-150388964441?aff=ere lpanelorg\n\nBeyond Biology is a symposium by Cognitive Sensations explori ng the themes behind ‘The Downloadable Brain’\, co-hosted by the Centr e for the Future of Intelligence. Mirroring our public programme’s curat orial framework\, the event will explore three technological goals:\n\n1) To build a machine that can think for itself.\n\n2)To create a technologic al copy of a human.\n\n3)To read another’s thoughts through their brain data.\n\nThese objectives may seem like sci-fi fantasies\, but their origi ns can be traced right back to Greek mythological times when the first ima ginings of AI were born. As strange and alien as they seem\, many aspects of these innovations are already coming to fruition.\n\nAdvances in BCI te chnology have enabled computers to interact with users through brain activ ity. With the initial goal of treating brain injury and trauma\, its futur e applications lie in more commercial settings such as gaming\, social med ia and the workplace. Innovators such as Elon Musk even dream that BCI tec hnology will achieve a symbiosis between humans and machines.\n\nIn the re search world of transhumanism and cryonics\, many scientists and technolog ists are working towards this utopian shift from biological to technologic al evolution. Reading the body as information\, AI could in their view be applied to reprogram biochemistry\, perhaps one day reversing the ageing p rocess. But each of these technological achievements come with their own s et of ethical issues and biological barriers.\n\nBeyond Biology presents g round-breaking international research from three unique individuals in the field of art\, anthropology and neuro-ethics\; Anna Dumitriu\, Dr Marcell o Ienca and Abou Farman. We invite audiences to learn about the technical innovation that has inspired our programme and artists\, and connect with research taking place across the world. Referencing their unique practices as artists and researchers\, each will present their perspective on the m oral and humanistic implications that may arise through these future devel opments\, exploring what our biological future looks like in this complex technological shift.\n\nBook your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co. uk/e/beyond-biology-robots-telepathy-and-artificial-brains-tickets-1503889 64441?aff=erelpanelorg\n\n---\n\nAbout Guest Speakers:\n\nAnna Dumitriu\n\ nAnna Dumitriu works with BioArt\, sculpture\, installation\, and digital media to explore our relationship to infectious diseases\, synthetic biolo gy and robotics. She has an extensive international exhibition profile inc luding ZKM\, Ars Electronica\, BOZAR\, The Picasso Museum\, The V&\;A M useum\, Philadelphia Science Center\, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipe i\, LABoral\, Art Laboratory Berlin\, and The Museum of the History of Sci ence.\n\nDr. Marcello Ienca\n\nDr Marcello Ienca is a neuroethicist and co gnitive scientist working at the Department of Health Sciences and Technol ogy at ETH Zurich\, Switzerland. Ienca will present his research on the (n euro)ethical and societal implications of emerging technologies at the hum an-machine interface. He is the PI of the projects "Neurotechnology\, Arti ficial Intelligence and Human Rights"\, "Digitalizing Elderly Care"\, and "Hybrid Minds".\n\nAbou Farman\n\nAbou Farman is a new media artist and Pr ofessor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. His work is concerned with immortality and the secularization processes in relation t o technology\, with an interest in transhumanist ideals and cryonics. His ethnographic research focused on technoscientific projects in the US attem pting to achieve physical immortality is explored in his latest book\, On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience (2020).\n\nAbou t the Hosts:\n\nGabriella Warren-Smith (Cognitive Sensations)\n\nGabriella is the Director of Cognitive Sensations and an independent curator with a research practice in technology and the brain. She set up Cognitive Sensa tions in 2018 as a project exploring the neurological impact of digital de vices. Through events\, exhibitions\, writing and art\, her work raises aw areness of everyday issues related to technology through curated seasons e xploring subjects such as attention\, memory and perception. She has prese nted her research with organisations such as FACT\, The British Museum\, T ate Liverpool and Agora Digital Arts\, and is a Reviewer for Leonardo Jour nal.\n\nHenry Shevlin (The Centre for the Future of Intelligence)\n\nHenry Shevlin is a Research Associate at The Centre for the Future of Intellige nce at the University of Cambridge. He leads the Consciousness and Intelli gence Project and Kinds of Intelligence Reading Group\, and in 2018 organi sed the Varieties of Mind conference.\n\n---\n\nImage credit: ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form" by Anna Dumitriu and Alex May in collaboration with scientist Amanda Wilson (Imperial College) and Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire). 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