Symposium Rise of the Machemes - how technology creates itself
Date: Saturday, June 26, 2010
Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: PIP
Street: Binkhorstlaan 36
City/Town: Den Haag, Netherlands
Symposium Rise of the Machemes – how technology creates itself
Is technology able to evolve in a way similar to biological
evolution?This is the main question during the mini-symposium Rise of
the Machemes. We will do a little technological experiment to see if
we can prove technological evolution.
Chairman: Bas Haring
Talks
Lola Hesp (designer) – The Selfish Gene Project http://www.theselfishgene.nl/
Prof. Dr. Arie Verhagen (cognitive linguist) – Technology, language
and cultural evolution http://www.arieverhagen.nl/
Ella Keijzer (Media Technology) – graduation project ‘Rise of the
Machemes – how technology creates itself’
On the wall
The poster-collection of Robert Horn: ‘Mapping
GreatDebates: Can Computers Think?’
Afterwards
Twitter-Fortune cookies and Pixel cupcakes (by Kirsten en Alfons)
Digital feedback music by Jelle Herold
When we have the mood and the time, we will watch the documentary ‘Technocalyps’
Abstract Ella Keijzer
Machemes consist of technological information and are supposed to be
the new replicators that follow the rules of Darwinian evolution. In
this research I show that by creating a simple piece of software set
loose it in the quantity of information and technology, evolution will
arise spontaneously. During my presentation we will do a
Twitter-experiment and try to let it evolve.
Peers of review
Leonieke Verhoog – Projectleader/Research&Innovation; at VPRO
Wouter Beek – PhD student at the Human Computer Studies department of
the University of Amsterdam
