EVENT DATE AND LOCATION

04.12.2009, 7 pm

LABORATORIA Art&Science Space, 3, Obukha per.

ORGANISER

LABORATORIA Art&Science Space

MODERATOR

Daria PARKHOMENKO, director / curator LABORATORIA Art&Science Space

PARTICIPANTS

Maria LOGACHEVA, geneticist

Tatyana FEDOROVA, botanist

Dmitry BULATOV, artist, curator

Ksenia EDELMAN, physicist

Mikhail SIMYNIN, nanotechnologist

Ivar MAKSYTOV, philosopher

Timyr SHUKIN, psychophysiologist

Mikhail SHIFRIN, algorithmist

Biologists, physicists, geneticists, artists, psychologists and philosophers would discuss objects created with the help of the latest technologies such as robotics, artificial life, bio/genetic engineering along with the problems aroused in this connection.

In what way does evolution correlate with post-evolution inview of physics, genetics, biology, psychology, art and philosophy?

Is it possible to formulate the aims of post-evolution?

Does contemporary art take part in the formation of ‘post-evolutional’ models?

Is the moral aspect obligatory in 'post-evolutional engineering'?

During the discussion videos of the following projects wouldbe shown and discussed:

- THE TELEGARDEN (KEN GOLDBERG, USA) (Robotics)

- GRACE STATE MACHINES (BILL VORN, Canada) (Robotics)

- LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS - VANDA (MATEUSZ HERCZKA, Sweden) (Evolutionary Design)

- MAKING FIRE (JOE DAVIS, USA) (Bio and Genetic engineering)