REFLExIVE production (ENGLISH)
PANEL
ON AI+ART IN SANTILLAN’S PROJECT AT COLBY COLLEGE (us) : APRIL 12, 2023
The Lunder Institute for American Art presented a panel discussion to culminate the period of Senior Fellow Oscar Santillán.
As one of five awardees of the Holt/Smithson Foundation’s grant prize to create a new project, Santillán discusses his collaboration with the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, to bring his project to fruition. Joining the panel will be Lisa LaFleur, Executive Director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation, Amanda Stent, Director of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, along with Erica Wall, Lunder Institute for American Art director, who facilitated the discussion.
LECTURE
THE INTERSPECIES VIRTUAL MACHINE : NOV 10 : COLBY COLLEGE (US)
Lecture by artist Oscar Santillán in which he discusses for the first time the 'IVM' (Interspecies Virtual Machine), an attempt to connect biological and artificial, physical and virtual systems.
PODCAST
new episode of a.i. murmurings: Oscar santillán on artificial intelligence, ecology, and scifi
CONVERSATION
‘the andean information age’
Anthropologist Manny Medrano and curator Carolina Castro join Oscar Santillán and Alessandra Troncone, authors of ‘The Andean Information Age’, to discuss this publication.
Knotting together a universe of stories related to the quipu system, ‘The Andean Information Age’ tells the history of its ongoing decipherment, and the disruption that this sensorial code may be able to trigger in our present. This publication is the outcome of a collaborative research that took place both in Lima and Naples, revealing fascinating points of connection between these two cities.
CRITICAL TEXT
ON OSCAR SANTILLÁN’S A HEAVY HALO SHOW AT RADIUS, BY SERGI RUSCA
“Santillán’s work is a generative means to expand our awareness of the diverse entanglements between natures and cultures, across times, bodies, and technologies.”
CONVERSATION
CURATOR SARA GARZON AND ARTIST OSCAR SANTILLÁN
Online event hosted by ICI (Independent Curators International).
Colombian curator Sara Garzón and Ecuadorian artist Oscar Santillán discuss the role that Latin American Indigenous technologies have played in advancing worldings beyond the future.
CONVERSATION
ANTIMUNDO: ANDREW PICKERING
Author of 'The cybernetic brain: sketches of another future', Andrew Pickering is a philosopher and one of the most prominent historians of cybernetics, at least of its most radical branch. In this interview by artist Oscar Santillán, Pickering discusses the forgotten experiments with 'biological computing' done in the 1960's by Stafford Beer and Gordon Pask, the unexplored potentials of "adaptation" in contrast to "domination", and also introduces ideas about "dancing with nature" that he is currently developing for his forthcoming book.
PODCAST
discussing ‘solaris’. OSCAR SANTILLÁN interviewed by laurie kang
In this podcast, Kang and Santillán discuss the broader context of Solaris: its reference to Stanisław Lem's novel, entangled histories of science and colonization, and newer movements in science and technology studies that de-centre human exceptionalism.
artist’s TALK
‘ANTIMUNDO: the encounter of indigenous epistemologies, sci-fi, and cybernetics’
A dialogue between curator Alessandra Troncone and artist Oscar Santillán orbiting around the connection between his work and what he calls the "Antimundo"—what grows outside of "Western reality". The lecture explores the ideas behind works such as ‘A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History’, ‘Planetarium’, ‘Solaris’, and ‘How Rivers Think’ by relating them to indigenous epistemologies, sci-fi, and cybernetics.
LECTURE
INTRODUCTORY CLASS TO BLOCKCHAIN FOR ARTISTS
CONVERSATION
CURATOR SIMONE MENEGOI AND OSCAR SANTILLAN
Le Monde. ‘Le Monde’ newspaper rendered blank by chemical process and its extracted ink shaped as a tiny sphere. (detail image). 2015. Oscar Santillán
…"google maps shows us the surface of the planet, the surface of streets and houses—which is really useful in a pragmatic sense, but what we rather need are maps that go deeper into space; maps of the bottom of oceans; much more complex maps of the human senses; and finally, a map of the milky way on an atomic level."