Sep '06 - Aug '08
I almost forgot...
01.16.08 | Jeffrey Kipnis: *@$#*!#!!
01.23.08 | Dan the Automator
01.30.08 | Peter Walker: Before the Memorial
02.06.08 | Manuel DeLanda: The New Materialism and the Mind
02.13.08 | Edward Eigen: A Crash Course in History
02.20.08 | Neil Spiller: Communicating Vessels
02.27.08 | Giovanni la Varra: Milanese Chronicles
03.05.08 | Mark Johnson: Re-Building Civitas: the Re-Generation of Place in Urban Design
03.12.08 | Robert Hodgin: Embrace Your One-Trick Pony
03.19.08 | Benjamin Ball + Gaston Nogues: Spaces Between the Hammer and the Mouse
03.26.08 | Yansong Ma + Qun Dang: MAD Dinner
04.02.08 | Greg Lynn: I’ll see it when I know it
All lectures begin at 7pm in W.M. Keck Lecture Hall and are free and open to the public
9 Comments
Awesome series. Makes me wish I still lived in LA. Almost.
How was Dan the Automator? missed the webcast.
he was cool. he didn't have any slides and his lecture notes were handwritten on crumpled notebook paper, but it still turned out to be an interesting conversation. talked mostly about the music industry and his process. little relationship to architecture, but interesting nonetheless.
i made sure i took a seminar with ed eigen every semester while in grad school. i highly recommend this lecture!
word dan the automator
Interesting that Greg's lecture title is exactly the same as the title of Sylvia Lavin's critical studies seminar at UCLA...
peter walker lecture was great. i am glad i was there. his process of flattening was really a lifelong conceptual departure and result of collaboration. he is really golden. no wonder landscape is the word these days.
Peter Walker is worthless!
gypsy,
is it possible for you to further elaborate on your comment?
02.06.08
Manuel DeLanda: The New Materialism and the Mind
It was an engaging lecture. I specially found DeLanda's comparative presentation of Kant and Hume very informative and enjoyable, using playful illustrations such as; Eskimos' twentynine names for snow, meanings of meaning and life before language. Modern philosophy 'explained' in a nut shell. Last part of the lecture on artificial intelligence was somewhat challenging and fashionably familiar for the audience of architects.
My reading of his conclusions was that, we will be spending a lot of time in this century charting and organizing the unknown, which will bring us many non linear surprises just about anything. Seems like insect level capabilities of present AI technology shall soon grow much more complex and pattern-map out fascinatingly vast plateaus (no Deleuze pun). I will further look up for DeLanda's work. I recommend this lecture for those who are interested in artificial intelligence, algorithmic constructions, pattern associations and linguistics.
Fun-factor:
At the end of the lecture, die hard Nietzschean Eric Moss' center point opening on Hume as 'sceptical realist,' was met by an hypermodern inspired and seemingly hidden move by DeLanda! No dark matter for him.
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