Performance
Time: 3pm CEST
Time commitment: 1.5hrs
The Wonder Machine
Time: 3pm CEST
Time commitment: 1.5hrs
An exercise in collective and continuous inquiry. The ‘Wonder Machine’ is an Oracle that runs on/produces questions. Expect no concrete statement or predictions. In the collective mind one question will echo as a multitude of new ones. And in this rhythmic expression of wonder and doubt, a web of connected intuitions emerges. Become entangled.
Workshop
Requirements: tba
Building Your Own Conspiracy Theory
Time: 4:45pm CEST
Time commitment: 1.5hrsRequirements: tba
Where do conspiracy theories come from and how do they work? Why do they have such a
hold on us? Conspiracy
theories are a dangerous phenomenon with major impact on our modern world, but at their heart, they are simply
fiction.
One of the best ways to understand something is to build it. That’s what we’ll be doing in this hour-long hands-on workshop.
First, we’ll look at some famous, mindfully created, conspiracy theories and legends. We’ll take a look at how they were created and examine why they had the impact they did.
Then participants will dig in and together we’ll create our own conspiracy theory. We’ll use apophenia, correlation, attention bias, collaborative storytelling, and other techniques to craft a bespoke conspiracy theory or two.
Learn to be sneaky, ridiculous, and trick people for educational purposes! Can we create a compelling conspiracy theory? Join us and find out.
One of the best ways to understand something is to build it. That’s what we’ll be doing in this hour-long hands-on workshop.
First, we’ll look at some famous, mindfully created, conspiracy theories and legends. We’ll take a look at how they were created and examine why they had the impact they did.
Then participants will dig in and together we’ll create our own conspiracy theory. We’ll use apophenia, correlation, attention bias, collaborative storytelling, and other techniques to craft a bespoke conspiracy theory or two.
Learn to be sneaky, ridiculous, and trick people for educational purposes! Can we create a compelling conspiracy theory? Join us and find out.
Reed Berkowitz
Reed Berkowitz is a media professional with 25+ years of experience
designing, writing, and researching award-winning interactive
experiences
for some of the best entertainment companies and brands in the world
including Universal Studios, Paramount, Cartoon Network, Peanuts, Sanrio
(Hello Kitty), and many more. He has helped create AR apps, ARGs,
immersive theater experiences, websites, movies,
educational video games, and more. His recent analysis of QAnon and
related conspiracy theories has been featured on NPR, New Yorker Radio
Hour, Al Jazeera, and many other media outlets.
The Interactions Group
The InterActions is an transdisciplinary ‘thought band’ of roughly 20 artists,
scientists and philosophers who together explore the weird and wonderful folds in the dimensions of all possible
collective thought through playful experiments that distribute thinking across many people and embrace emergence
at the level of the collective mind, to experience what new hybrid forms of thought may be generated by studying
and intervening in multi-individual thinking networks, and collective human algorithms. The Interactions is an
nomadic autonomous group with affiliations to the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Amsterdam (where
the group began) and Center Leo Apostle, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Regular contributors include: Orion Maxted,
Katarina Petrović, Renske Vroomans, Enrico Sandro Colizzi, Izabelė Jonušaitė, Sára Iványi, Marie Groothof,
Cadell Last, Roland Kupers, Carina Erdmann,
Esmee Geerken, Mirko Lazović, Andrew Wass, Marielle Pelissero.
Keywords: Collective thought, Collective Intuition, Collective
computation, Collective organisation, complexity science, cybernetics, interaction, algorithmic theatre,
poetry.
Keywords: Collective thought, Collective Intuition, Collective
computation, Collective organisation, complexity science, cybernetics, interaction, algorithmic theatre,
poetry.