Orgs: A Many-Headed Reading

  • festival
    02.-05.02.2017
  • excursion
    18.02.2017
  • excursion
    24.02.2017
  • closing weekend
    04.-05.03.2017
  • partner program
    20.01.-05.03.2017

Event

Orgs: A Many-Headed Reading

Performance
Thu, 02.02.2017
21:30 - 22:00
HKW - Lecture Hall

>Observe: Physarum networks are slow, much slower than plant or animal networks and very much slower than silicon computing
>Comment: But their circuits are self-growing and self-repairing, producing systems tolerant to interruptions or failure
>Comment: Repeated exchange between environment and organism rather than a centralized program or algorithm
>Observe: Stable relationship is maintained through active discourse
>Conclude: Here, the law of competition bows before collaboration

Jenna Sutela presents a performative, sonic transcription of the material from her forthcoming publication Orgs: From Slime Mold to Silicon Valley. The publication focuses on decentralized organisms and organizations. It expands upon work that Sutela has been producing over the past couple of years, layering contemporary organizational charts, or organizational mazes, and the navigational intelligence of Physarum polycephalum, the single-celled yet “many-headed” slime mold dating to the Proterozoic eon. The reading, like the publication, will be experimental, partly simultaneous; bringing together multiple voices around questions related to a technological future which may be headed toward a neo-biological civilization.