Starting July 18th, The New Centre is presenting #AGI, its 2016 New York Summer Residency. We’re excited for this event — not only will it be hosting some of the most interesting interdisciplinary figures working at the intersection between science, technology, politics, and the humanities — but some of our members will also be presenting at the residency:

On Tuesday July 19th at 2PM, Joshua Johnson and Keith Tilford will be presenting at Pratt Institute. Patricia Reed will be taking part in multiple events across the schedule including a panel discussion at 3:30PM on July20th and delivering a paper at 10AM July 21st (both at the New School). Finally she will be participating in the conference wrap-up discussion at e-flux at 6PM on July 22nd with Amy Ireland, Nick Land, Reza Negarestani, and Pete Wolfendale, and moderated by The New Centre (Jason Adams, Mohammad Salemy, and Tony Yanick).

A full listing of events, presenters, and updates is found on The New Centre’s website, or you can read the schedule and press release below:

#AGI: Accelerate General Intellect
The New Centre 2016 New York Summer Residency

July 18/19: Pratt Institute, Manhattan Campus (144 West 14th Street)
July 20th: Future of Mind Symposium
July 21st: The New School (University Center, 63 5th Avenue)
July 22nd: e-flux (311 East Broadway)

Participants: Jason Brogan, Ahmed El Hadi, Amy Ireland, Katarina Kolozova, Nick Land, Eden Medina, Reza Negarestani, Patricia Reed, Pete Wolfendale, and more.

The New Centre for Research & Practice is thrilled to announce its New York Summer Residency. #AGI Accelerate General Intellect is taking place between July 18 – 22, 2016. On July 20th, we will host a panel during Future of Mind Symposium as part of a collaboration with the New School’s Centre for Transformative Media and Humanity+.** Please join us for a week of seminars, workshops and panel discussions at Pratt Institute, The New School for Social Research, and e-flux, as our resident artists, thinkers, and writers speculate about the future implications of collective thought and cognition on philosophical, political, and technological developments.

What does it mean to accelerate the general intellect in the age of artificial intelligence? #AGI begins from the investigation of distributed networks from which thought assembles and into which it disperses. Unlike in the past, general intelligence, algorithms, and networks are together becoming as irreducible to the efforts of “universal” intellectuals as cultural and political movements have become to “universal” leaders. Will the future enable a more radical, integrated, but also more complex mode of cultural and political engagement? One predicated upon what Marx describes as, “the conditions of the process of social life itself… under the control of the general intellect.”*

#AGI explores the new intensifying developments in the field of AI that are making possible subjectless modes of the general intellect, more collective and more general than any single individual or network.

The Residency is free for The New Centre Friends and Members (to become a member, please visit: http://thenewcentre.org/membership/member/). General admission is by donation. Space for each location has specific limits, to secure seats please register for #AGI.

SCHEDULE

July 18th at Pratt Institute /// Moderated by Tony Yanick
09:00 – 09:30, Coffee
09:30 – 10:00, Introductory Remarks
10:00 – 12:00, Pete Wolfendale
12:00 – 13:00, Discussion
13:00 – 14:00, Lunch
14:00 – 14:30, Ahmed El Hady
14:30 – 15:00, Discussion
15:00 – 16:00, Katarina Kolozova /// Video Conference from Macedonia
16:00 – 16:30, Discussion

July 19th at Pratt Institute /// Moderated by Mohammad Salemy
09:00 – 09:30, Coffee
09:30 – 10:00, Introductory Remarks
10:00 – 11:00, Matteo Pasquinelli /// Video Conference from Berlin
11:00 – 11:30, Discussion
11:30 – 11:45, Break
11:45 – 12:30, Amy Ireland
12:30 – 13:00, Discussion
13:00 – 14:00, Lunch
14:00 – 15:00, Joshua Johnson & Keith Tilford
15:00 – 15:15, Break
15:15 – 17:00, Nick Land
17:00 – 18:00, Discussion

July 20th: Future of Mind at The New School
15:30 – 16:45, The New Centre Panel Discussion with Reza Negarestani Patricia Reed, & Peter Wolfendale

July 21st at The New School /// Moderated by Jason Adams
09:00 – 09:30, Coffee
09:30 – 10:00, Introductory Remarks
10:00 – 11:00, Patricia Reed
11:00 – 11:30, Discussion
11:30 – 11:45, Break
11:45 – 14:30, Lunch
14:00 – 14:30, Eden Medina /// Video Link from Indiana
14:30 – 15:00, Discussion
15:00 – 15:15, Break
15:15 – 17:00, Reza Negarestani
17:00 – 18:00, Discussion

July 22nd at e-flux 18:00 – 21:30pm
Audio-acoustic intervention by Jason Brogan
Plenary session with Amy Ireland / Nick Land /Reza Negarestani / Patricia Reed / Pete Wolfendale /// Moderated by Jason Adams, Mohammad Salemy & Tony Yanick