Conflux Festival

Saturday, Sep 21 · 10:00 AM · 4:00 PM

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Bogna Konior will be one of the keynote speakers, together with Thomas Moynihan, during the conference programme at Conflux Festival. Bogna Konior is an Assistant Professor of Media Theory at the Interactive Media Arts (IMA) department at NYU Shanghai, where she also co-directs the AI & Culture Center. She is also a Research Fellow in the Antikythera Program on Speculative Computation at the Berggruen Institute, and a mentor in the Synthetic Intelligence program at Medialab- Matadero Madrid. She is the author of The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (Flugschriften, 2019), currently being developed into a book-length project exploring the implications of Liu Cixin’s theory of communication to the internet. Together with Anna Greenspan and Benjamin Bratton, the editor of Machine Decision is not Final: China, and the History and Future of AI (Urbanomic, 2024). Her work on digital culture, philosophy of new media, and posthumanism has been presented internationally, recently including the Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, e-flux, and the Ljubljana Biennale. She is currently working on two projects. One is on female Christian mystics are early thinkers of machine erotics and nonhuman personhood, and the other on the future of technology as an existential project, in dialogue with Polish sci-fi writer and intellectual Stanislaw Lem. More info Conflux Festival: https://www.confluxfestival.nl/program-2024/

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Arminiuskerk, Museumpark 3, 3015 CB Rotterdam, Netherlands

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