Are emotions universal to all humans or are they dependent on the cultural environment of individuals?

Friday Floor 0Montebelo MWOctober 31, 2016Conference

What's in a Feeling?

From animal models to magnetic resonance imaging, this panel gives an idea of how scientists attempt to understand the nature of affection.

Friday Floor 0Pablo RojasOctober 30, 2016Conference

Tracking Emotions

Current technologies can track our position on the planet to the mood of our co-workers in the office. Trendy "Apps" come in the shape of friendly interfaces installed in portable devices posing no harm at first sight. But what happens when such technologies are used for marketing and commercial purposes?

Friday Floor 0Montebelo MWOctober 29, 2016Conference

Connecting Empathy and Neuroscience

In contrast to sympathy, empathy allows us to put ourselves in the shoes of another. Can we actually train the brain to be more social?

Saturday Floor 0Montebelo MWOctober 28, 2016Conference

PERMANENT EXHIBITION

Ivor Diosi, Jacques-André Dupont & Clément Destephen, Rose-Lynn Fisher, Susanna Hertrich, Jonathon Keats, Barbara Nordhjem & Jan Klug, Lauren McCarthy & Kyle McDonald, Tillmann Ohm, Margherita Pevere, Ruben van de Ven

Floor 3
Friday & Saturday
10:00 – 20:00

Friday Floor 3, Saturday Floor 3Montebelo MWOctober 28, 2016schedule

Reading: Wie wir lieben – vom Ende der Monogamie

Reading: "Wie wir lieben – vom Ende der Monogamie". We experience love that does not correspond to any theories. Karig tells the reader about men who are urgently longing for relationships and families, in contrary to all prejudices. About women who demand the maximum of liberty, without any ideological superstructure. About love that breathes freely. And about love that dies from all this self-discovery.

Friday Floor 0, PerformanceMontebelo MWOctober 28, 2016Special, Performance, Emotion

MICRO E-MOTIONS

ASN will present several artistic projects making res invisible visible, in which cellular robots become not only metaphors of life and its evolution, of beauty and truth in nature, but also means of interpersonal communication and embodiment of human pride, creativity, desires as well as fears.

Christian RauchOctober 20, 2016partner program

AI: Learning to Think

Robots and computers have so far been conceived to perform punctual tasks and exercises in order to help humans with their daily tasks. What would happen if we managed to incorporate learning capabilities into the way they operate?

Conference, Saturday Floor 0Montebelo MWOctober 19, 2016AI

LYMPH

Lymph, a work created specifically in response to the theme of the STATE Festival 2016, addresses the nature-culture dichotomy within the broader context and field of affective sciences.

Permanent Exhib. Floor 3Daniela SilvestrinOctober 19, 2016Exhibition

Expanding Relationality, Testing Affect: From Tinkering to (Artificial) Creativity

Questions about what additional knowledge and experience we can acquire by tinkering with and reflecting on current research in creative ways, and to what extend creativity in machines and artificial intelligence is being explored and developed are addressed and discussed.

Saturday Floor 0, ConferenceDaniela SilvestrinOctober 18, 2016AI, Emotion

WE KNOW HOW YOU FEEL & EMOTION HERO – Artist talk

We Know How You Feel is an artwork with two parts, looking at computational emotion classification and categorisation; with Emotion Hero the artist developed an Android game that encourages one to investigate how face and feelings are represented by the software.

Saturday Floor 3Daniela SilvestrinOctober 17, 2016Exhibition

(E)MOTION - Artist talk

This installation creates awareness of even the most subtle movements of the face, and a space for interaction purely based on facial expressions.

Friday Floor 3Daniela SilvestrinOctober 17, 2016Exhibition

MOLDING THE SIGNIFIER

Molding the signifier is a time-based, hybrid, bio-cybernetic installation deploying an external biological agent to infiltrate and disrupt the body-mind ecosystems of virtual humans, resulting in states that we regular humans could perceive as mental illness.

Friday Floor 3, ExhibitionDaniela SilvestrinOctober 17, 2016Exhibition

Autonomous

Autonomous is an intense, emotional look into a future that is already here.

Montebelo MWOctober 16, 2016Film Program III

Feature Documentary: The Singularity

Within the coming decades, we’ll have the ability to create computers with greater-than-human intelligence, bio-engineer our species and redesign matter through nanotechnology. How will these technologies change what it means to be human?

FilmMontebelo MWOctober 16, 2016AI

DIGESTING THE ANTHROPOCENE – Food for thought

The project and installation, specifically developed for STATE Festival 2016, will engage the emotional cognition of visitors' stomachs and intestines in solving one of the world's most pervasive and intractable problems: anthropogenic climate change.

Friday Floor 1, Saturday Floor 1Daniela SilvestrinOctober 15, 2016Exhibition, performance

Frankie

Frankie is a robot that interviews people about their emotions, attempting to 'learn' what it means to be human. It responds to emotions both with language and 'eye' (camera) movements, creating computer-generated, emotion-inspired video.

Montebelo MWOctober 14, 2016Film Program III

Rise

In the near future, sentient robots are targeted for elimination after they develop emotional symmetry to humans, and a revolutionary war for their survival begins.

Montebelo MWOctober 14, 2016Film Program III