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Authors: |
Mariátegui, José-Carlos. | |
Title: |
Artificial Life - synthesis of art and science | |
Keywords: |
technology, art, science, cognition, artificial life | |
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Abstract: |
This essay tries to explain how the
constant creation and increased use of computer technology in the scientific though and
its relation with the artistic creation has lead to the emergence of a new discipline:
artificial life. The human being since the beginning of life in earth has being willing to
create himself 'better' (from the primitive man of caves, to the alchemists and the modern
scientists). This discipline is a synthesis of elements (combination of knowledge) to
create a whole new product. In the artistic perspective the interest is being related to
the use of new materials and tools, concepts and esthetics as a way of creation. In the
scientific one, the analysis of the algorithms as the machine's spirit (programs, logic
structures) evolved as the first ideas behind the concept of the computer. This new ways
of understanding thanks to the combination of ideas will change the way we will
communicate between the machines and us. Technology has made the arts and science develop
as a united (whole) process. The social objectives are intimately related with technology
since they are nowadays-fundamental tools in our lives. From a cognitive point of view, we
could create highly purposive intentional systems (minds from scratch) with totally
different goals than us and that will evolve from themselves. Artificial life is the pure expression of concentrating ideas and thoughts from many disciplines into the creation of a new one, and let us explain how the complex systems are changing our environment to make us really 'navigate' in a new virtual space. Artificial life is constitutes the first creation from the landscape of art and science thanks to the new technologies. Artificial Life is devoted to studying the scientific, technological, artistic, philosophical, psychological and social implications of one of the ancient's dreams of mankind. |
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| Mariátegui, José-Carlos.
jcm@amauta.rcp.net.pe Caetano Heredia University, Lima. José-Carlos Mariátegui.
Peruvian. Born in Lima, Peru. Studies at Markham College and Cayetano Heredia University
Faculty of Sciences and Philosophy (Lima). President of Alta Tecnología Andina (ATA),
non-profit organization dedicated to the development and research of artistic and
scientific theories. Director of Memorial Museum Mariátegui (his grandfather and the
greatest Peruvian Marxist thinker) of the National Institute of Culture. Resident at the
CICV Centre de Recherche Pierre Schaeffer Montbeliard-Belfort, Hérimoncourt (France).
Member of the Scientific Thought and Philosophy of Science Program, directed by Dr.
Alberto Cordero, Cayetano Heredia University (Lima). Coordinator of numerous expositions
and symposiums in Peru and organizer of the International Festival of Video Art of Lima
(ATA Festival). Teaches the courses: "History of Computers" and
"Multimedia: The art of communication in the modern age" co-organized by ATA and
Cayetano Heredia University (Lima). Beta tester, producer and developer of multimedia
programs and web sites. Co-creator of "Tupac Amauta", VideoPoemOpera by Gianni
Toti in co-production with the CICV (France). Recent conferences include: Festival de la
Vallée des Terres Blanches (France, 1997), III Latin American Congress of Humanities
(Costa Rica, 1997), Isea Revolution Symposium (Liverpool,1998.) |
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