About this Event
MECCANO From children’s toys to analytical diagrams, human thought becomes a form of disobedience: we will not surrender to social media. We are feeding what will destroy us. Artificial intelligences are learning to do without us — our labor, our creativity, our mistakes. And yet: perfection has never interested us. Leo XIV invoked Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists, against algorithms designed to win the battle for a few more seconds of attention. Umberto Eco answers from elsewhere, in an impossible dialogue: social media does not inform, it excites. It does not explain, it simplifies. In a world that wants you stupid, thinking is a form of disobedience. Miuccia Prada says it differently: study, study, study. Read literature. Go to exhibitions. We would like her to tell us how it's done. She won't. Romain Laprade goes to Uzbekistan, where post-Brutalist architecture still believes — half-collapsed — in the machine as salvation. OMA/AMO's diagrams become art: a diagram is never innocent. Goshka Macuga talks about systems that work too well. Clara Hastrup exposes the magic trick. Mat Maitland makes AI artworks and asks what it means to have a hand when the machine has learned it already. Yuko Mohri follows motors, fish, and minor disasters — in that order. A chapter on prosthetics and the body that comes next. Xiao Yang on the post-human form. Hugh Herr on biomechatronics. Andrea Lanfri and Corrado Polzoni on what bionic means — concretely, in titanium and carbon fiber, not in metaphor. Ohad Naharin's GAGA movement: proof that the body has its own algorithm and it does not respond to commands.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Palazzo Offline, 126 Circonvallazione Casilina, Roma, Italy
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