A 2-day conference at Goldsmiths College, University of London
12-13 February 2005
How do we come to be what we are? Through the quintessentially religious event of creation? Or through natural-scientific processes of evolution? Is there a coming together of nature and culture, mind and brain in the context of ‘creative evolution’? Does mind evolve from brain, or do nature and culture stand in a co-evolutionary relationship to one another? How does creativity (in culture, art and the sciences) itself evolve?
Arts Council England and Goldsmiths College, University of London invite you to attend a two day colloquium, bringing biologists, psychologists and information scientists together with artists, architects and philosophers to address these themes.
Speakers: Goetz Bachmann (Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College), Ingrid Bachmann, (Artist), Peter J. Bentley(Department of Computer Science, UCL), Henri Bortoft (Physicist), Oron Catts (SymbioticA, University of Western Australia), Howard Caygill (History Department, Goldsmiths College), Manuel De Landa, (Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University), Robin Durie (Health Complexity Group, Peninsula Medical School Manfred Fassler, Centre for Media, Knowledge Cultures, Imagination and Development, J.W. Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main), Bronac Ferran (Interdisciplinary Arts, Arts Council England), Brian Goodwin (Schumacher College Jesper Hoffmeyer, Biosemiotics Group, University of Copenhagen Janis Jefferies, Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College), Sarah Kember (Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College), Rem Koolhaas (Architect, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Rotterdam), Scott Lash (Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College), William Latham (Artist), Adrian Mackenzie (Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University), John Milbank (Department of Theology, University of Nottingham), Nick Monk (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield), John Mullarkey (Department of Philosophy, University of Dundee), Gunalan Nadarajan (LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore), Warren Niedich (Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College), Luciana Parisi (School of Cultural and Innovation Studies, University of East London), Jane Prophet (Artist), Axel Roch (Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths), Andreas Roepstorff (Centre for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, University of Aarhus), Semiconductor (Artists), Boseul Shin (Media Art Theorist, Seoul), Luc Steels (VUB Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Free University of Brussels), Lucy Suchman (Centre for Science Studies, Sociology Department, Lancaster University Hiroshi Yoshioka, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences), and Robert Zimmer(Department of Computing, Goldsmiths College).