Festival of Unconventional Computing, Proto-cognition, Arts and Sounds
Expand your mind as The Festival of Unconventional Computing celebrates non-human and non-neural intelligence. Covering a fascinating range of subjects and media, The exhibition presents Synthetic evolution, Apocalypse, Living wearables, Liquid Automata, Poetic Entropy of intelligence, Art of Life-like cellular automata, Colloid intelligence, Complexity of Persian language, Marimo computing and robotics and the language of fungi and zooglea!
Timetable
28th September 17:00-22:00 Open.
29th September 17:00-22:00 Open.
30th September – 17:00-22:00 Grand event I. Public talks and celebrations. Drinks & snacks between the talks. 17:30 Andrew Adamatzky: What is unconventional computing? 17:50 Alessandro Chiolerio: Colloid intelligence 18:10 Mohammad Mahdi Dehshbi: Complexity of Persian language. 18:20 Maria Dębińska: Non-human semiotics. 18:40 Neil Phillips: Marimo computing and robotics 19:00 Sarah Cook: Between the Lines: DNA Data Storage as an Artistic Medium 19:20 Poetry by Saksham Sharma 19:40 Music by Zlatko Baracskai and Andrew Adamatzky. Drinks, snacks.
1st October – 17:00-22:00 Grand event II. Public talks and celebrations. Drinks & snacks between the talks. 17:00 Eric Goles: Periodical organisms and stable (evolutive) attractor. 17:20 Steve Battle: Liquid Automata 17:40 Andy Adamatzky: Language of fungi and kombucha 18:00 Hanna Saito: Eaten Colors 19:00 Celebration of Unconventional Computing and Protocognition.
2nd October – 14:00 – 18:00 Open. Last chance to enjoy the exhibition.