Chimeras: Inventory of synthetic cognition

This volume published by the Onassis Foundation attempts to disassemble and reformulate what one might understand as AI by taking apart both notions of ‘artificiality’ and ‘intelligence’ and seeing what new meaning they produce when recombined.

Considering synthetic cognition through the scope of Typography drew us towards Autopoiesis or Automatic Writing methods, that can be described as self-generated, mechanic or automated. In our design for this edition we make reference to early letter machines: In 1876, the American engineer Joseph A. David developed the Plaque Découpée Universelle, generally known as the PDU. This universal stencil plate, with its complex unified grid, aimed to auto generate all possible writing symbols. By animating the PDU throughout the pages, we materialised this machine as searching a yet unformulated thought or writing system.

Publisher: Onassis Foundation
Edited by: Ilan Manouach and Anna Engelhardt

Contributors: 150 researchers and artists explore the synthetic nature of cognition from a variety of perspectives [!Mediengruppe Bitnik, 00Zhang, AA Cavia, Bassam Al-Sabah, K Allado-McDowell, Jamie Allen, Alexandra Anikina, Clemens Apprich, Sadie-Mae Arellano AKA ex.icon, Cris Argüelles, Marwa Azelmat, Olivia Banner, Medina Bazargali, Katherine Behar, Olga Boichak, Liliana Bounegru, Antoine Bousquet, Tega Brain, Vera Bühlmann, Mercedes Bunz, Louise Emily Carver, Guo Cheng, Imani Cooper Mkandawire, Matt Colquhoun, Juan Covelli, Florian Cramer, Laurent de Sutter, José Luis de Vicente, Stephanie Dinkins, Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Sean Dockray, Theodora Dryer, Mathew Dryhurst, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Grayson Earle, Diane Edwards, Paul N. Edwards, eeefff, Hasan Elahi, Fantastic little splash, fields harrington, Kaley Flowers, Fragmentin, Laura Forlano, Agata Foryciarz, Michele Gabriele, Pietro Gagliano, Alexandre Gefen, Anastasis Germanidis, Steve Goodman, Olga Goriunova, Anna Greenspan, Sam Gregory, Rafael Grohmann, Eran Hadas, Orit Halpern, Felicity Hammond, Rian Ciela Hammond, Lelia Marie Hampton, Stephanie Hankey, Adam Harvey, Florian Hecker, Line Henriksen, Holly Herndon, Louise Hickman, Joey Holder, Amy Ireland, Özgün Eylül İşcen, Natalia Janula, Adan Jerreat-Poole, Julia Kaganskiy, Christopher Kardambikis, Stella Andrada Kasdovasili, Elaine Kasket, Botond Keresztesi, Os Keyes, Kite aka Suzanne Kite, Anastasya Kizilovа, Bogna Konior, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Chloê Langford, Lawrence Lek, Laura Lotti, Geert Lovink, Mattin, Robin Mackay, Umber Majeed, Kumbirai Makumbe, Suhail Malik, Christina Maraboutaki, Gena Marvin, Gabriel Massan, Svitlana Matviyenko, Isabel Millar, Constantinos Miltiadis, An Xiao Mina, Thomas Moynihan, Alejandra Muñoz, Nina Muro, Mycological Twist, Reza Negarestani, Mihalis A. Nicolaou, Simone C. Niquille, Bahar Noorizadeh, Rodrigo Ochigame, Omsk Social Club, Bianka Oravecz, Yannis Panagakis, Eva Papamargariti, Luciana Parisi, Oana Pârvan, Victoria Pacheco, Philippe Pasquier, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, PWR, Oleksiy Radynski, Patricia Reed, Kalli Retzepi, Tabita Rezaire, Jennifer Rhee, Miro Roman, Emily Rosamond, Rachel Rossin, Bassem Saad, Anne-Françoise Schmid, Pete Sharp, Yannis Siglidis, Caroline Sinders, Lex Sokolin, James Steinhoff, Abram Stern (aphid), Jenna Sutela, Tok Thompson, Miró Ingmar Tiebe, Viktor Timofeev, Natasha Tontey, Theo Triantafyllidis, Trust, Francis Tseng, Prodromos Tsiavos, Ayatgali Tuleubek, Marek Tuszynski, Lesia Vasylchenko, VOJD, Martin Zeilinger, Liliia Zemnukhova, Joanna Zylinska, zzyw]

Design: Typical Organization with Ella Villaumié
Publication year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 536
Dimensions: 12×18 cm
Format: Printed

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