Cybersentics Book Club
For this meeting, we are trying something new: the session will be held in a hybrid format, welcoming participants from outside the Bay Area to join us online. We are also hosting the article's author, Kevin Hamilton, who will join us virtually as our first guest speaker.
This edition of the book club at Gray Area comes with a Midwestern flavor! In the article on our table, "Where the Turtles End," Kevin Hamilton examines the Adaptive Reorganizing Automaton (ARA), an experimental device developed at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) in 1960, tracing how competing approaches to materiality in the history of computation illuminate a persistent tension among consciousness, embodiment, and control.
For this meeting, we are trying something new: the session will be held in a hybrid format, welcoming participants from outside the Bay Area to join us online. We are also hosting the article's author, Kevin Hamilton (Editor-in-Chief for Leonardo/ISAST Books, The MIT Press), who will join us virtually as our first guest speaker.
Reading: Hamilton, K. (2017). Where the turtles end. Contemporary Arts and Cultures.
Time: 12–2 PM (PDT)
Location: 2665 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94110, and online (hybrid format)
