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Singularity and technology
Organised by nadine Wanono (Donatecarcenter.com-Ivry) and Francis Rousseaux (IRCAM)
Seminar "Singularity and Technologies", having enlivened by nadine Wanono (anthropologist film-maker) and Francis Rousseaux (computer scientist) was created in September, 2005 on the basis of a research programme worked out together. It was principally at home held Suger, in the places of Ircam as well as in the Museum of the Quay Branly.
Stakes of seminar
Enjeux_Seminaire_S&T
Program 2007-2008
Singularity and Technologies The topic of singularity and of its report crossed with synthesis and technology made the object of inauguration season 2005/2006, before evolving in the direction of investigation on collections (season 2006/2007).
In 2007/2008, seminar will follow its development by carrying the inquiry into questioning.
Piaget, in an effort to rationalise and to differentiate the categories from figurales collections, clears the famous abstracted landmark form / space-time. But this description does not exhaust the phenomenon which Bachelard (The poetics of the space) calls imagining, to know creative invitation that addresses us presence to be imagined and to us ressouvenir, as soon as it glitters in collections (see Deleuze also in Proust and signs). The collection blunts the object by making felt us that it is always already re-collected and poétisé, its categorisation was always haunted by other attracteurs than form and space-time abstract. To support in presence is a creative activity which is allowed to it impose neither by definite absence, nor by crossed inactualité or to come. Having barely discharged the pressure of rationality, presence finds its saturated density and opens (without exteriority) to include the ressouvenir and the imagining, shading off the privilege of the supporting and making absence immediately a particular quality of the gift. Figurales collections do not stop bloody idiot of - appear, to reconfigurer therefore. And it is while a question is suddenly obvious, without telling and as the heart of imagining... How a questioning or a paradox do they cross suddenly the structure of presence ?
Our appointments
We will meet every first finely worked Thursday of every month of 17 h 30 - 19 30 at home Suger 16-18, Paris rue Suger 75006
On Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 at home Suger. Olivia Lavergne
Humour and burlesque, a practice of the misappropriation - The mishaps of the burlesque, an interactive dramatic art
On Thursday, March 27th, 2008 in the Museum of the Quay Branly, Sophie Caratini
Different approaches put into practice in the course of his ground in Mauritania and in the Western Sahara.
She will display the route of her question settings on wealth and borders of disciplinary point of view and of position - on the ground - of a peculiar anthropologist. Wondering first about what led her to perform a "time of stopping épistémologique" during the writing of its trial "The unsaid of anthropology" (PUF 2004), she will tackle then the question of the complementarity of disciplines by recalling her last experiments of collaboration with engineers and technicians regarding the development of basic services (water, electricity), in the country Mauritanian.
On Thursday, March 13th, 2008 at home Suger Charlie Galibert,
The question of questioning with that of the impossible beginning
He will introduce us his researches around the topic of the question of questioning with that of the impossible beginning. In a first part, he will return on this question setting in vivo and in situ from his Corsican ground at the time of his job of ground, question setting which, leaving the face of Corsican insularity master key by the general anthropological face of insularity to become really invasive and obsessed woman - with the risk of a "speech of stammerer", of a limping or one on - place. Who is other one and are only possible communicate us with him ? questioning which crosses that of reciprocity, of dialogisme and of big question épistémologiques, ethical, philosophical of the status of the altérité.
On Thursday, February 7th, 2008 at home Suger, François Pachet
Ontogeny of a musical ear".
I wanted to reconstruct the way some repeated listenings constructed landmarks, how these landmarks got organised in network which is very busy during successive listenings, which sometimes changes, or even destroys itself by some particularly disturbing listenings. Today, it is this network which co-ordinates the way I receive the music, of which I listen to it, remember it and finally of whom I appreciate it. Result of years of meticulous, microscopic and incoherent attention, it was built by obeying laws of gravitation which I smell demanding, without understanding them really. I so weaved a network of 200 notable musical events, most very located, which give an account of listener's ear of the end of the 20è century. I tried to tell this story, thinking that if history is necessarily unique itself, its general diagramme is not it undoubtedly. I would like to speak about this plan, and to comment on some examples drawn of this text
On Thursday, January 10th, 2008 at home Suger, Miguel Almiron
Organic vs Numerical
This group creates a texture of organic synthesis, concept that the artist called " numerical skin " or " numerical flesh ". Since 1996, the artist hired a reflexion on the possibilities of expressing the sensitive of the body and of the human being across the use of new technologies linked to the computer tool. In his videos, Miguel Almiron captures numerically real organs, parts of the body which he transforms, puts in movement and sublime with the aid of tools of high-tech such as software 3D or scanner 3D (CyberWare). The picture which the artist shows us in his videos recalls the interiority of the body. It seems that beings and often sexual organs are conjugated, blend and are transformed to give birth to new organic forms.
December 13th, 2007 in the Museum of the first Arts of the Quay Branly Lise Boily,
Numeration, Collections and Exchange of posts
Scientific and technical developments redefine the space of creation. Communications media transform in an observable way the contribution of the artists and at once the quality of innovative experimentation. Numeration makes easier new forms of production, broadcasting, participation and calls into question the notion of culture as well as the traditional balances of the industries of culture and of the arts of the stage. With the transfer of knowledges and of cultural heritages by coding, numeration amplifies the possibilities of exploration and of innovation.
On Monday, November 5th, 2007, 17 h 30 at home Suger, René Zaragüeta i Bagils
Biological classification, clades and collections
engineer of studies within the Systematic team, Computer Research and Structuring of Cladogrammes of the Computer Laboratory and Systematics, UMR PALÉOBIODIVERSITÉ and Paléoenvironnements of the University Paris 6.
Program 2006-2007
Singularity and Technologies : Collections
We notably want to extend experience by letting us guide by the natural slope that she took last year by treating more particularly reports which maintain Singularity and Collections, always through Technologies.
Plan 2006-2007
Next appointments
We will meet every first finely worked Thursday of every month of 17 h 30 - 19 30 at home Suger 16-18, rue Suger 75006 Paris (http://www.msh-paris.fr/la_msh/suger_presentation.htm),
October 5th, 2006 session will be enlivened by Jean Lambert] author of "The distributed God, an anthropology compared of monotheism", coll. Heritages, éd. of the Hart, on 1995.
The peculiar system of monotheism Formant system by means of their difference, graduated on three Indo-European functions, or monotheism () translate polytheism from religious or genealogical point of view by other means : procreate the unit of the people from a numerous ethnic, operate on gesture of the saving warrior, establish double celestial / human law. Saturated system, there is not fourth monotheism. But crossing the corpus, a prophetic equivalent hole, an oracle of opening, three stories of crossings Exodus, Metanoia, Hijra, or revolutions orphans named turns away from this ideological organisation Moses, Jesus, Mohammed. This differential engine, this double regime genealogy / oracle, this religious polarity spotted in the first third of the XXth century, can give a political sense to the bergsonienne notion of "tale" , by constructing both sources of transmission.
jean.lambert8@libertysurf.fr http://www.ehess.fr/centres/ceifr/pages/lambert.php"
On the 09/11/06 Frederick Leymarie -
Presentation of the recent plans being on the border of arts and of computer science, and especially :
1) AIKON : the Artist / robot IKONographe a collaboration with the artist / portraitist Patrick Tresset where they study that creative processes at the source of the génèse of a portrait and they try to identify what differentiates a style (of drawing) of other one http://doc.gold.ac.uk/aikon/wp/
2) MUTATORS : a collaboration with the latham artist William Latham http://doc.gold.ac.uk/ / plan on border between genetics, theory of evolution and art, design. http://doc.gold.ac.uk/mutators/
3) Sculpture Biomimetique a collaboration with the artist / sculptor Brower Hatcher and Hatcher Mid-Ocean Studio http://www.midoceanstudio.com/ http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/morpholingua/ http://www.lems.brown.edu/ leymarie /
On the 14/12/06 Alain Bonardi-
The representation of theatre and of opera, as constitution / course of collection
Between metaphysical loneliness and subjective dissolution, the spectator of theatre and of opera feels a succession of sequences which make motives. While the classical theatre tries hard to conceive these motives a priori, by establishing ontologies of situations and of characters, we will testify stage plans which aim at "opened forms", which the spectator will feel as spatiotemporal collections.
Introduced stage plans :
The Night crossing, of Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz
Alma Sola, numerical opera forms it opened (http://www.almasola.net)
On the reading, of Marcel Proust (http://www.alainbonardi.net/siteProust) ALAIN BONARDI http://www.alainbonardi.net http://gtv.mshparisnord.org/membres/bonardi/
On the 11/01/07 Gretchen Schiller -
All plans try to sensitise the public in the living of its own body and in our kinésthésique culture that Gretchen Schiller names the “kinésthesique field”. For this choreographer sheepskin-lined jacket, term “kinésthesique” described field the body-medium as a temporal and space dynamics based on the processes of feedback between the body and its environment. Head of the French association, mô-vi-dä, the artistic plans offer living kinésthésiques others than a simple translation of our daily living. By means of numerical techniques, they search registers of (non-linear) space-time, weights (gravity) and effort (magnetic simulation) which allow us to wonder “what is it the body ?”.
On the 13/02/07 Francis Rousseaux -
The figurale, Bober / Perec, collection Moussorgski / Hartmann On is interested in the co-productive deployment of collections, inspiring the collectors reciprocally. Here, collections are writings, opening so, by artists' inspiration. Let us surprise this phenomenon in the unhappy favour of the critical abandonment of a development, by creative death (made still left trial) or, more roughly, disappearance - premature, violent of the artist.
On the 08/03/07 Catherine Verheyde -
The topic of the collection will be introduced from the presentation of two protocols of experience, which raise the education accepted then described by Carlos Castaneda in its books. These techniques integrate with the larger whole introduction in the « way of the warrior » transmitted over more than twenty years by Don Juan, a Mexican, Indian shaman Yaqui of tradition Toltèque, to the young Californian student in anthropology. After a short introduction to this education, we will keep then the techniques of summing-up and of constitution of the album of personal and unforgettable memories, from which we will try to show in what the philosophy of Deleuze, that is a thought of singularity, of life and of creation, deeply articulates with a conversion of our vision of the world, inspired partly by its meeting with the work of Castaneda.
On the 27/03/07 Georges Legrady
Professor of interactive media to the Californian University of Santa-Barbara (UCSB)
Pockets Full of Memories, Invisible Making Visible the
Pockets Full of Memories the public is solicited to constitute database from the objects which they have on them. Besides every person fills a questionnaire and describes the object from some properties and key words. On this base of linguistic description, an algorithm creates an "auto-organised" card (Kohonen) by objects and allocates them a position in the base. Algorithm assures a constant reorganisation of objects as new objects are introduced into the base.
Visible Making the Invisible* : analysis and cartography of the daily reading of the public, grabbed in the movement of circulation of the books which enter and go out of the public Library of Seattle.
Total Collaborative Visual Mapping Archive (GCVMA) : the methods of the devices of cellular technologies of communication without son, method of meeting of data, and visual interfaces by which pictures and their data are accessible and interact with them.
http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/ g.legrady/glWeb/Projects/pfom2/pfom2.html
On the 05/04/07 nadine Wanono
The collection from concepts offered by G. Deleuze.
How concepts of Picture-time and of Pictures - movements offered by Deleuze allow us to arrest the cinema as the form of collection of « blocks movements length » ranked according to organic (dialectical or empirical) description or to crystalline description where the current and the virtual are indiscernible Is it Possible to consider the cinema to be a simple collection of pictures scooping out from the register of l current and the virtual to take back a deleuzienne terminology ? To extend this reflexion we will analyse the job of Lev Manovich, Soft Cinéma, which offers us a film reflexion where programming takes the place of narration
http://www.donatecarcenter.com/article.php3 ? id_article=68
On the 03/05/07 Valérie Morignat-
Disillusioned Subject : supremacy and singularity in the virtual worlds.
With the exponential development of numerical transactions and of software transposition of biological, behaviour, cultural forms, the antagonism between social reality and sphere of the individual imagination gets weaker. Far from defending the other irreducible dimension " in the business world" than Herbert Marcuse called his wishes of, the new online virtual worlds assimilate Subject with an operational group and absorb him in a controlled Utopia. Reified by a commercial domestication, the faces of transcendence survive in the post technological form of "manipulated stimuli" and promises of freedom of a "Second virtual Life" (Second Life). In these persistent virtual worlds, the peculiar and the general, body and mind, artificial and natural, rational and irrational are "interchangeable objects of organisation" within the world become "the substance of a complete administration which envelops the administrators themselves" (HM, The unidimensional Man). The conquest of transcendence led by advanced industrial civilisation is well the conquest of Subject, that of menacing singularity for the particular interests hidden in the promotion of the virtual worlds.
Feeling several months of immersion in Second Life - the broadest consensual currently developed hallucination (about 6 million mishaps) - and by mentioning researches in interfaces developed for games videos immersifs, my intervention offers three approaches distinct from the notion of Singularity.
1 ° The analysis will articulate above all around the notions of Subject and of supremacy in the virtual worlds under the lighting of the theories of Herbert Marcuse on technological rationality.
2 ° Secondly, the couple of subjectivity and of synthesis will allow me a critical examination of interfaces, neural and kinesthesia, developed for virtual immersifs games and shared environments.
3 ° Singularity will finally be envisaged as ideology in the field of advanced Artificial intelligence.
Approached on the whole by three chapters of the analysis, the topic of the collection will be the revealing of a post technological culture where a vision stagehand of the world and its subjects colonizes an imagination of the insubstantial which reifies dangerously.
It is only to dissociate itself from a mécaniste and procedure ideology, who cast only the "universal form of material culture", that the development of the virtual worlds will display its multidimensional potentials.
On the 14/06/07 Alain Balseiro -
"Mnémotechnologies, cognitive surcharge and creative experience"
The full expansion of networks " Mnémotechnologiques " visits again the question of cognitive surcharge in the artistic sphere. How tools does hypermedia question our way of receiving, of memorising and of synthetizing the "surplus" of information ? What consequences to creative process, particularly in the field of musical computer science ? By bringing back the question of the surplus of information at the origin of "creative" thought, they realise that kantian syntheses give interesting landmarks to include stakes of network thought. Between cognitive dysfunction and awakening of intelligibility, this plan tries to explore the modalities of creation of a collection of intermodal objects in numerous criteria and differentiated.
An important track of reflexion also opens with the deficit of latent inhibition (DIL), deficit of intelligibility short-circuiting husserliennes retention. The surplus of information coming from this cognitive dysfunction would disorientate and destabilise the subject not succeeding any more in including or in catégoriser in a synoptic way. While losing its "reflexes of logical operators" (Piaget) subject would find its close, native perceptive / executive experiments in it of the "hieroglyphical" writing defended by Adorno (and its "Egyptian" dialectic).
In this movement of cognitive surcharge, these new instruments hypermedia applied to art - that they considered to be the extension of hégelienne thought in the massive and hegemonic intervention of concept - would tend to detach us progressively from concepts put into play in logical classification. It is here that the phenomenon of the collection (and from DIL) occurs, this experience where it is not again possible to speak about "classes" but « empirical conventions drawn of the previous experience lived by subject ». Recent researches in psychology identified the deficit of latent inhibition as "one of the biological bases of creativity", but so that this dysfunction could have a positive effect or creative, subject must "excel" in his working memory. What is he on time where precisely these " Mnémotechnologiques " networks visit again our cognitive activities ?
On the 28/06/07 Louise Merzeau
Supplies and flux of pictures : for a public space of memory
On the one hand, public images or private seem to circulate more and more freely on networks. Of other one, the industrialisation of information grows to a normalisation and a concentration of the still never attained collections. In such context, on what conditions is it possible to support or to recreate a “public space of memory” ? Between supply and flux, in what pictures have we access, with which tools, which knowledges and which rights ? And what can we make with ? Is the availability of pictures enough to produce memory, to share it, to transmit it ? Should not you rather think of memory as a process of production, or even of invention ? It is hypothesis that photo and video will be developed from some assemblages, where are tested of mémorielles writings. In these assemblages, singularity feels across traces carted by the multiplicity of the systems of information, entangling imagination and document, individual and collective, history and actuality. Nomads and revenantes, pictures are always incorporated : they cross technical devices which produce a memory founding and structured, that is to say political. Projections : • Imagine war (video assemblage 33 min) • Memories (imagination) of Central Europe, In God They Cartel, Pharmacopoeias (photographic assemblages) Louise Merzeau : merzeau at noos.fr
Seminar Singularity and Technologies 2005-2006
Summed up of main interventions
Francis Rousseaux francis.rousseaux@ircam.fr Professeur of Universities in computer science, co-ordinator of European research plans and development in Ircam-CNRS. Engineer in computer science, he worked in the industry of software before turning to research in artificial intelligence. He was listener of the Institute of High Studies of National defence, and responsible for a team linked to the international Secondary school of philosophy. He runs the collection Eidétique in editions Delatour.
A date accounts : In 29/09/05 in Ircam in 11/10/05 at home Suger
Title of accounts :Singularités in work in technology http://www.donatecarcenter.com/IMG/pdf/Francis_Rousseaux_05-06.pdf
Nadine Wanono, wanono@ivry.cnrs.fr http://www.donatecarcenter.com/article.php3 ? id_article=68 Anthropologist film-maker, Member of the team of Ivry of the Centre of Studies of the Africain Worlds (Donatecarcenter.com) After the realisation of ethnographic films in dogon country, her undertook researches on the spécifité of the film support as tools of representation of ethnographic data. She participated in the organisation of symposium : Of the Ethnographic Cinema in Visual Anthropology, balance sheet, new techniques, new techniques, new languages. http://www.comite-film-ethno.net/colloque/colloque-index.htm
Date of account : On the 17/11/05
Title of account : Perspectives and Visual Anthropology
By maintaining that visual anthropology was the mirror of stakes major épistémologiques we follow only theses moved forward by Clifford, Marcus and Fisher, Turner and Tyler. But what are consequences of this crisis of representation within this discipline ? To allow us to answer this question we will raise a short review of this discipline widely influenced by history world politics, by the uninterrupted adjournment of used methods, and finally by the constant evolution of offered techniques. If this evolution can seem unavoidable and necessary a central question still remains to be tackled : how to give an account of reality ? While numerical technologies question our perception of the reality of a philosophical, scientific, artistic and religious point of view (DELANDA 2002, Deleuze 1985, Herzfeld 2001, Latour 1988, Levy, 1988) and while many were the artists using numerical art to be taken back and to draw inspiration from this question setting concerning for example our perception of notions such as the space / time, the film-makers anthropologists mainly appropriated these new tools as part of the broadcasting of their data, by the creation of online publications or by the production of DVD. It what seems to us significant is the almost absence of researches undertaken so much on modes of observation of the real which on given models shares it and their status within new forms of representation in circulation in our society. To allow to hire a debate on these new forms of representation given to the film-makers anthropologists, we will introduce extracts of the DVD accomplished by Barbara Glowczewski-Baker called : Tracks of dreams, art and knowledge of Yapa of the Australian desert as well as extracts of writings of numerical artists.
Jacques Ibanez Bueno jacques.ibanez-bueno@univ-savoie.fr master of conferences to the University of Savoy, Laboratory IREGE / G-SICA, PO BOX 806, 74016 Annecy Cedex
Date of account : On the 8/12/05 at home Suger
Title of account : Practice maker of documentaries as part of a step of virtual ethnology
As part of seminar Singularity and Technology, introduced job is made up of two parts : a documentary in the course in the stage of realisation and an épistémologique and methodological reflexion. The ground is a virtual said ground. It is a question of working on the bodily involvement of the users when they communicate with hindsight via numerical technologies and electronic networks. More precisely are concerned bidirectionnels manners of the webcam (via Internet network) and the use of Messenger, software developed by Microsoft and currently free. This software allows to communicate at the same time between two persons "real-time " . The user transmits, of pictures thanks to a framing with a miniaturisée camera and, of sounds by microphone fluently included into the webcam. In the regions where the high debit is available, this practice seems in exponential growth due to costs reduced by the webcam and by the free offer of the software Messenger of Microsoft to be downloaded. This usage takes back the technological and commercial plan of the videophone for a long time postponed for the general public. Price setting is inclusive for all network high debit and gives so the "limitless" character of Messenger, compared to the model always predominant of the telephone price setting based on length. This free and permanent dimension reinforces the drawing power for the internaut and the possibility of conversing and of showing itself in a device, which resembles the television bidirectionnel live broadcasting, and this without technical team. Two users and internauts are visible in the documentary : LIZA093 AND HECTOR076. The inheritance of the ethnographic film enriches the scientific step within a will to arrest a « invisible reality » since private and private. Broadcasting anthropology accompanies other disciplines as sociology of manners, semiotics and phénoménologie. In the field currently in building that are Internet, these disciplinary crossings allow to feed exciting questionings as part of a progressive step which takes back the principles of a virtual ethnology.
Frederick Mauro f.mauro@senat.fr Frederick Mauro is parliamentary civil servant, of the frame of the administrators of the Senate for seventeen years. He benefited, in March, 2001, from a grant of Foundation Eisenhower (http://eisenhowerfellowships.org/). He had opportunity so to perform a trip of two months in the United States in spring on 2001 and to meet more than three hundred persons, policies, civil servants, professors of universities, men and women of firm in ten nine cities of the United States. The subject of studies that it had settled was : « can the American federal Senate be of use as model for a future European Senate ? ». Frederick Mauro is currently Representative for the library of the Senate, At the end of his trip in the United States, Frederick Mauro drew short group of considerations range of which exceeds the frame of American political system and could serve as a basis for a new classification of different political systems.
Date of account : 10/01 2006 at home Suger
Title of account : Trial for a new classification of political Regimes
The act to classify is undoubtedly also ancient as that to think. It because classification is a convenient intellectual tool, a demonstration of intelligence. She allows not only to describe, but also to understand. By her generality she allows to simplify and to level the asperity of the real world. As "prejudge « , she exempts from the analysis and reduces the time separating the reflexion of action. She allows judiciousness and choice. Know to be able. That is why classifications meet in every field of human reflexion, basic research to in daily life in purpose, not always conscious, to gain time and to sit our certainties. Political sciences as legal science is of big providers and big users of classifications. To such an extent that the education of these subjects sometimes resembles a long list of classifications, their history, their pertinence and in the possibility of substituting news for them. The classification of political regimes does not infringe this tradition. The object of this article is precisely to offer a new classification. But it seems necessary before to specify notion a little.
Article transcribing intervention article subjected to the electronic magazine http://www.espacestemps.net/document1836.html
Jean-Guy miller Jean-Guy miller, professor of philosophy to the University of the Quebec in Montreal, is Manager of the Laboratory of Cognitive Analysis of Information in the same University.
Date of account : On February 16th, 2006 at home Suger
Title of account : Of Singularity in Generality : philosophical perspectives
The cognitive technology of type robotics begins normally with the informational inputs which give him its numerous sensors. These sensors are by what it is put in touch with its environment. And any sensor gives, every instant and according to its mode of clean functioning, only an individual, peculiar information. If the robot must act in its environment, he cannot simply combine extensivement this multitude of peculiar experiments. He must include her to make her efficient in his action. Of what nature is this integration ? How to link together this myriad of information ?
Article transcribing intervention article subjected to the electronic magazine http://www.espacestemps.net/document1836.html
Laeticia Merli, ciamerli@yahoo.com Anthropologist, post - doctorante linked to Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge
Date of account : On February 23rd at home Suger
Title of account : How to show the invisible ? : The artist, the shaman and the anthropologist ; some examples.
This account was constructed as an experimental workshop where the participants are going to be confronted with their own interpretation, their projection facing shamanism and facing shamans. 1930s in the collapse of the Soviet block at the beginning of 1990s, lamas and shamans, mediators necessary to exchanges between the world of the men and that of minds, were hunted. Objects and place of worship were confiscated or destroyed. Nevertheless, celebrated secretly beliefs remained enduring. Everywhere on the Mongolian territory, they sacrifice again to minds of sources, trees and of ancestors. Extracts of films documentary accomplished in different epochs underlined both the evolution of the methods of observation peculiar to the documentary cinema and the way to receive the Shaman rituals. The last extracts were accomplished by two shamans who staged their space and their vision during their time of possession. Reactions expected from the audience allow to underline the culturally led frame in which the audience registers these ancestral practices. The productions of the shamans-film directors were widely inspired by the codes of representation scooped out within aesthetic models conceived and broadcast by the sponsors of globalisation, cause a feeling of faintness at the listeners, feeling of faintness from which a reflexion on modes of representation of the altérité is obvious.
Barbara Glowczewski b.glowczewski@college-de-france.fr
Barbara Glowczewski is PhD and human sciences, head of research to the NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, member of the Laboratory of social Anthropology. She works with the Aborigines of Australia since 1979 and runs an international programme of collaboration with the University of Melbourne and the James Cook university " Indigenous strategies of communication " centered on festivals and usage of NTIC. Moreover, she enlivens a doctoral seminar in EHESS "Anthropology of networks :colères total and local creations" who leans on broadcasting documents.
Date of account : On April 4th, 2006 at home Suger
Title of account : Multimedia and cognitive anthropology
The multimedia can be a research tool to question cognitive processes, to explore and to emphasise the cultural foundations of the natives who cartographient their systems of knowledges and their experience of the world in a geographical and virtual network of narrations, of pictures and of performances, a mode of réticulaire thought of the myth and of the memory which joins the cognitive structure of the Internet. The experience of realisation of an interactive DVD (Search on indigenous earth) will be discussed, comparing four topics (Story, dance, art, survival) in four regions of the centre and from the north of Australia from films of the Australian film director, Wayne Barker Elle entrusted us a text, extracted from his work, angered Dreams, published in 2004, in the Human collection Plon Terre.« It is by cutting, sticking, and juxtaposing pictures and sounds in multimedia and in film, which I started to write in another way on the paper, a writing which I call a réticulaire. My long immersion in computer networks had brought me back not only to the pleasure of writings, but still to that of the narration which allowed me to mailler some lines of thought, of pictures and of sounds projected by the network of indigenous knowledges.
Jean-François Perrot Jean-Francois.Perrot@lip6.fr Jean-François Perrot is outstanding professor of the University Paris 6, specialist in computer science of programming languages « by objects ».
Date of account : On June 22nd, 2006 at home Suger
Title of account : Concepts and classes. Critical reflexion on programming by objects
The fundamental notions of programming by objects (class, authority, inheritance) introduce a striking analogy with the traditional philosophical speech which uses the same vocabulary (by replacing "inheritance" with "general implementation"). The considerable success of this style of programming invites to wonder about the validity of this analogy. They so hope to highlight cultural pressures and limitations liable to light the practice of the computer scientists. As computer scientist, my preoccupation is "to say things" in a machine - and to be understood by her, if at all possible. This preoccupation is individual at the same time (in my activity personal programmante) and collective (I try to make easier the communication of my fellow citizens with machines). They understand since I form a line without hesitancy in the supporters of the hypothesis n ° 5 J.-G. Miller, in his variant n ° 3 :" they think only in language". I am even persuaded as they do not think in the same way in different languages, and I have sympathy as the anthropologists of difference, as this David Le Breton about whom speaks Roger-Pol Droit in the World of the Books of 17/02/06, which I read shortly after to have listened to seminar homodate. I solve this difference by letting in online of count followed purpose when "they think" : "absolute" translation is impossible, but it becomes possible if a purpose to the translated text (p is allocated. eg the text is intended to work as the instructions of some utensil). The basic experience of the programmer is that he not there no peculiar swording. I hear by "peculiar" the opposite of "general" in "There is science only of the general". The peculiar, taken in this direction, is just what matters in action : "This pedestrian is going to cross, therefore..." . A peculiar swording includes necessarily a deixis, a syntactic form which links it up with its referent, who just singles swording out. Because the swording taken in itself out of enunciative context, is hopelessly general : "This pedestrian... "What pedestrian ? It is really there the misfortune of the programmer, not to can say "This pedestrian..." . Indeed, with the machine it is not possible to cheat : the swording which is announced him is irremediably skinned of any context likely to give him and singularity and sense. The arbitrary power of interpretation is blindingly obvious of the one who writes the interpreter. The notion of constant postulated by the logicians does not have court (safe in the interpretative mechanism) and the alleged peculiar "Socrates is man" is indistinguable of the general "x man is". It is not about science, about knowledge, but about linguistic swording there, cleared of the material substrate which gave birth to it. The programmer collides with the inability of language to express singularity. It is so, for my part, as I read the "Blow of dices" of Mallarmé : the poet proclaims his failure to write a peculiar blow of dices. Let us return to seminar. Its subject touches from too close distance a major preoccupation of artificial intelligence, that of passage of "numerical" in "symbolism". "Numerical", these are the pictures of numbers coming from various sources, notably from physical sensors." Symbolism", these are swordings with linguistic character interpreted as such. The passage from one to another was especially studied under the aspect of ’" training of concepts" and on the other hand, of course, in context robotics. I am for my part extremely unaware of these questions, but there is in LIP6 of distinguished specialists that it would be useful to see patients to have a state of art. It is important to have a critical attitude not to be allowed to deceive by speeches "sellers", too frequent in our discipline, who hold to the "client" the speech which he feels like hearing. And yet as I underlined it in the past, we have a burning desire to hear about "general" and about "individual"...
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