Chimeras
Inventory of Synthetic Cognition
Edited by Anna Engelhardt and Ilan Manouach, Onassis Foundation, 2022. ISBN 978-618-85361-8-0
This volume attempts to disassemble and reformulate what one might understand as AI by taking apart both notions of 'artificiality' and 'intelligence' and seeing what new meaning they produce when recombined. It is an inventory in which one can find contributions from scholars and artists with interspecies, disability, monstrous, feminist, and decolonial approaches, as well as thinkers and technologists engaged in a broader field of AI. By questioning fabricated norms that constitute and maintain notions of 'artificial' and 'intelligence', this book acts as a toolbox one can use to merge these terms into a novel chimera.
We summon the trickster of the natural order, chimera, both a mythical creature and a genetic phenomenon. In Greek mythology a chimera is a conspicuously fractured female monster, a lioness with a separate goat head stitched to her back and a snake for a tail. In genetics, a chimera is similarly defined as an organism whose disparate parts remain partially autonomous, resisting totalization into a whole. Chimeras are synthetic — i.e., produced through synthesis, a combination of parts forming a unified entity —rather than artificial— a copy from the authentic model defined by its opposition to the original. Drawing upon chimerism allows us to broaden 'artificial intelligence' into 'synthetic cognition'—an approach that highlights the duality of 'artificial' and 'authentic', amplifies non-human methods of cognition and anticipates modes of symbiosis.
Contributors !Mediengruppe Bitnik, 00Zhang, AA Cavia, Bassam Al-Sabah, K Allado-McDowell, Jamie Allen, Alexandra Anikina, Clemens Apprich, Sadie-Mae Arellano AKA ex.icon, Cris Argüelles, Marwa Azelmat, Olivia Banner, Medina Bazargali, Katherine Behar, Olga Boichak, Liliana Bounegru, Antoine Bousquet, Tega Brain, Vera Bühlmann, Mercedes Bunz, Louise Emily Carver, Guo Cheng, Imani Cooper Mkandawire, Matt Colquhoun, Juan Covelli, Florian Cramer, Laurent de Sutter, José Luis de Vicente, Stephanie Dinkins, Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Sean Dockray, Theodora Dryer, Mathew Dryhurst, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Grayson Earle, Diane Edwards, Paul N. Edwards, eeefff, Hasan Elahi, Fantastic little splash, fields harrington, Kaley Flowers, Fragmentin, Laura Forlano, Agata Foryciarz, Michele Gabriele, Pietro Gagliano, Alexandre Gefen, Anastasis Germanidis, Steve Goodman, Olga Goriunova, Anna Greenspan, Sam Gregory, Rafael Grohmann, Eran Hadas, Orit Halpern, Felicity Hammond, Rian Ciela Hammond, Lelia Marie Hampton, Stephanie Hankey, Adam Harvey, Florian Hecker, Line Henriksen, Holly Herndon, Louise Hickman, Joey Holder, Amy Ireland, Özgün Eylül İşcen, Natalia Janula, Adan Jerreat-Poole, Julia Kaganskiy, Christopher Kardambikis, Stella Andrada Kasdovasili, Elaine Kasket, Botond Keresztesi, Os Keyes, Kite aka Suzanne Kite, Anastasya Kizilovа, Bogna Konior, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Chloê Langford, Lawrence Lek, Laura Lotti, Geert Lovink, Mattin, Robin Mackay, Umber Majeed, Kumbirai Makumbe, Suhail Malik, Christina Maraboutaki, Gena Marvin, Gabriel Massan, Svitlana Matviyenko, Isabel Millar, Constantinos Miltiadis, An Xiao Mina, Thomas Moynihan, Alejandra Muñoz, Nina Muro, Mycological Twist, Reza Negarestani, Mihalis A. Nicolaou, Simone C. Niquille, Bahar Noorizadeh, Rodrigo Ochigame, Omsk Social Club, Bianka Oravecz, Yannis Panagakis, Eva Papamargariti, Luciana Parisi, Oana Pârvan, Victoria Pacheco, Philippe Pasquier, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, PWR, Oleksiy Radynski, Patricia Reed, Kalli Retzepi, Tabita Rezaire, Jennifer Rhee, Miro Roman, Emily Rosamond, Rachel Rossin, Bassem Saad, Anne-Françoise Schmid, Pete Sharp, Yannis Siglidis, Caroline Sinders, Lex Sokolin, James Steinhoff, Abram Stern (aphid), Jenna Sutela, Tok Thompson, Miró Ingmar Tiebe, Viktor Timofeev, Natasha Tontey, Theo Triantafyllidis, Trust, Francis Tseng, Prodromos Tsiavos, Ayatgali Tuleubek, Marek Tuszynski, Lesia Vasylchenko, VOJD, Martin Zeilinger, Liliia Zemnukhova, Joanna Zylinska, zzyw
Design Typical Organization Language English
Pages 536 ISBN 978-618-85361-8-0
Chimeras
Inventory of Synthetic Cognition
Edited by Anna Engelhardt and Ilan Manouach, Onassis Foundation, 2022.
ISBN 978-618-85361-8-0
This volume attempts to disassemble and reformulate what one might understand as AI by taking apart both notions of 'artificiality' and 'intelligence' and seeing what new meaning they produce when recombined. It is an inventory in which one can find contributions from scholars and artists with interspecies, disability, monstrous, feminist, and decolonial approaches, as well as thinkers and technologists engaged in a broader field of AI. By questioning fabricated norms that constitute and maintain notions of 'artificial' and 'intelligence', this book acts as a toolbox one can use to merge these terms into a novel chimera.
We summon the trickster of the natural order, chimera, both a mythical creature and a genetic phenomenon. In Greek mythology a chimera is a conspicuously fractured female monster, a lioness with a separate goat head stitched to her back and a snake for a tail. In genetics, a chimera is similarly defined as an organism whose disparate parts remain partially autonomous, resisting totalization into a whole. Chimeras are synthetic — i.e., produced through synthesis, a combination of parts forming a unified entity —rather than artificial— a copy from the authentic model defined by its opposition to the original. Drawing upon chimerism allows us to broaden 'artificial intelligence' into 'synthetic cognition'—an approach that highlights the duality of 'artificial' and 'authentic', amplifies non-human methods of cognition and anticipates modes of symbiosis.
Contributors !Mediengruppe Bitnik, 00Zhang, AA Cavia, Bassam Al-Sabah, K Allado-McDowell, Jamie Allen, Alexandra Anikina, Clemens Apprich, Sadie-Mae Arellano AKA ex.icon, Cris Argüelles, Marwa Azelmat, Olivia Banner, Medina Bazargali, Katherine Behar, Olga Boichak, Liliana Bounegru, Antoine Bousquet, Tega Brain, Vera Bühlmann, Mercedes Bunz, Louise Emily Carver, Guo Cheng, Imani Cooper Mkandawire, Matt Colquhoun, Juan Covelli, Florian Cramer, Laurent de Sutter, José Luis de Vicente, Stephanie Dinkins, Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Sean Dockray, Theodora Dryer, Mathew Dryhurst, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Grayson Earle, Diane Edwards, Paul N. Edwards, eeefff, Hasan Elahi, Fantastic little splash, fields harrington, Kaley Flowers, Fragmentin, Laura Forlano, Agata Foryciarz, Michele Gabriele, Pietro Gagliano, Alexandre Gefen, Anastasis Germanidis, Steve Goodman, Olga Goriunova, Anna Greenspan, Sam Gregory, Rafael Grohmann, Eran Hadas, Orit Halpern, Felicity Hammond, Rian Ciela Hammond, Lelia Marie Hampton, Stephanie Hankey, Adam Harvey, Florian Hecker, Line Henriksen, Holly Herndon, Louise Hickman, Joey Holder, Amy Ireland, Özgün Eylül İşcen, Natalia Janula, Adan Jerreat-Poole, Julia Kaganskiy, Christopher Kardambikis, Stella Andrada Kasdovasili, Elaine Kasket, Botond Keresztesi, Os Keyes, Kite aka Suzanne Kite, Anastasya Kizilovа, Bogna Konior, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Chloê Langford, Lawrence Lek, Laura Lotti, Geert Lovink, Mattin, Robin Mackay, Umber Majeed, Kumbirai Makumbe, Suhail Malik, Christina Maraboutaki, Gena Marvin, Gabriel Massan, Svitlana Matviyenko, Isabel Millar, Constantinos Miltiadis, An Xiao Mina, Thomas Moynihan, Alejandra Muñoz, Nina Muro, Mycological Twist, Reza Negarestani, Mihalis A. Nicolaou, Simone C. Niquille, Bahar Noorizadeh, Rodrigo Ochigame, Omsk Social Club, Bianka Oravecz, Yannis Panagakis, Eva Papamargariti, Luciana Parisi, Oana Pârvan, Victoria Pacheco, Philippe Pasquier, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, PWR, Oleksiy Radynski, Patricia Reed, Kalli Retzepi, Tabita Rezaire, Jennifer Rhee, Miro Roman, Emily Rosamond, Rachel Rossin, Bassem Saad, Anne-Françoise Schmid, Pete Sharp, Yannis Siglidis, Caroline Sinders, Lex Sokolin, James Steinhoff, Abram Stern (aphid), Jenna Sutela, Tok Thompson, Miró Ingmar Tiebe, Viktor Timofeev, Natasha Tontey, Theo Triantafyllidis, Trust, Francis Tseng, Prodromos Tsiavos, Ayatgali Tuleubek, Marek Tuszynski, Lesia Vasylchenko, VOJD, Martin Zeilinger, Liliia Zemnukhova, Joanna Zylinska, zzyw
Edited by Anna Engelhardt and Ilan Manouach Design Typical Organization
Publication year 2022 Language English Pages 536 ISBN 978-618-85361-8-0