Events

(( The CPT offers a vibrant platform to support and develop work related to philosophy and technology through publications, design/art research-practices, exhibitions, symposia, reading groups, conferences, and more.) ( ) ( )

Fellowship CallRED Fellowship
August 1, 2022 17:00 – August 1, 2022 21:00

This fellowship provides support to a student enrolled in an undergraduate degree in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. The fellowship offers professional development support in the amount of $1500.

WorkshopEcological Poetics

Cary Wolfe

April 11, 2022 09:00 – April 15, 2022 11:00

Hybrid: Zoom meeting and in person

These seminars will be built around two distinct but related art projects that channel ecological philosophy, and ecological questioning, through creative practice.

Public talkHow (Not) To Do Jagged Ontologies

Cary Wolfe

October 29, 2021 16:00 – October 29, 2021 00:00

Hybrid: Zoom meeting and in person

SymposiumTechniques in the Making

Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Marget Grebowicz, Ron Broglio, Cala Coatz, Shingun Singha, Stephen Loo, Silvia Neretti, Luke Kautz, Garrett Johnson, Darjia Medic

April 16, 2021 13:00 – April 16, 2021 17:00

Zoom meeting

A Symposium organized by the Center for Philosophical Technologies. Our speaker guest are: Adam Nocek, Stacey Moran, Marget Grebowicz, Ron Broglio, Cala Coatz, Shingun Singha, Stephen Loo, Silvia Neretti, Luke Kautz, Garrett Johnson, Darjia Medic. The event is free.

SymposiumGlobal Asymmetries, Digital Extractivism and the fight for Economic Justice

Sean Maliehe, Sibel Kusimba, AbdouMaliq Simone.

April 6, 2021 13:00 – April 6, 2021 15:00

Zoom meeting

Symposium organized by the Center for Philosophical Technologies, hosted by Human Economies Group at the Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.   Our speakers guests are: Sean Maliehe, Sibel Kusimba, AbdouMaliq Simone.   If you would like to participate, you can obtain a free ticket to the event, by clicking this link.

Public talkCannibalizing Ourselves: how our brains and our bodies turn against us

Athena Aktipis

February 24, 2021 16:00 – February 24, 2021 17:00

Zoom meeting

From mutated genes in cancer cells to viral memes invading our brains, we are more vulnerable than we like to think.

Fellowship CallCannibalizing
December 18, 2020 09:00 – December 31, 2021 17:00

In her timely novel Tender is the Flesh, the prizewinning Argentinian author Augustina Bazterrica tells the grim tale of Marcos who runs a factory that slaughters humans for their meat after a global pandemic has wiped out animals.

Public talkQueer Space Connections

Olivier Vallerand

October 30, 2020 16:00 – October 30, 2020 17:30

Feminist and queer architectural theorists and practitioners have challenged the omnipresent binary of public and private in architectural discourses.

Public talkCapitalism as religion

Mario Orospe Hernandez

September 17, 2020 16:00 – September 17, 2020 18:00

On the spiritual life of a commodity across secular bordering.

InstallationDesign Reboot
February 17, 2020 08:00 – February 17, 2020 20:00

In occasion of the itinerant exhibition of the exhibition“Design Transfigured / Waste Reimagined” by Dutch Invertuals, SMoCA and CPT co-host a series of events titled, “Design Reboot”! 

Public talkDesign Reboot
February 17, 2020 18:00 – February 17, 2020 20:00

In occasion of the itinerant exhibition of the exhibition “Design Transfigured / Waste Reimagined” by Dutch Invertuals, SMoCA and CPT co-host a series of events titled, “Design Reboot”.

ExhibitionDesign Transfigured

Dutch Invertuals

February 1, 2020 10:00 – May 24, 2020 18:00

“Design Transfigured / Waste Reimagined” recognizes a fresh approach to addressing the current state of our depleted and polluted environment; an extreme and inventive kind of upcycling. In a religious context, transfiguration is “a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state.” Waste is overtaking natural resources, but these 30 […]

Discussion PanelDeleuze Today

Frida Beckman

November 6, 2019 00:00 – November 6, 2019 00:00

Ross-Blakley Hall 196 (RBHL196) 1102 S McAllister Ave Tempe

Gilles Deleuze has transformed a broad range of academic fields. Where has Deleuze studied today and what are its frontiers? Join us for this conversation.

Discussion PanelUnfolding Fashion Tech / Fashion, Tech, Philosophy
October 26, 2019 17:00 – October 26, 2019 21:00

Onomatopee, Lucas Gasselstraat 2a, 5613 LB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

With all their different operating systems, how can we share and exchange knowledge, skills, and production means between fashion, technology, and philosophy?

InstallationPandora’s Ecstasy – Reimagining (non)human time and technology
October 19, 2019 10:00 – December 22, 2019 18:00

Onomatopee

The installation gives human visitors an ecstatic glimpse into their own extinction, one which lacks the apocalyptic anxiety and insistent doomsday rhetoric that has become commonplace in the Anthropocene discourse.

InstallationAn Acoustic Ecology Salon
October 15, 2019 17:00 – October 15, 2019 00:00

Installation, ASU library

ConferenceMOCO: The 6th International Conference of Movement and Computing

Grisha Coleman

October 10, 2019 10:00 – October 12, 2019 18:00

Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona

MOCO is the international symposium on movement and computing. MOCO aims to gather academics and practitioners interested in the computational study, modeling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information. MOCO is positioned within emerging interdisciplinary domains between art & science.

Discussion PanelMutant Futures: Design and Mythopoeisis in Posthuman Times

Conny Groenewegen, Stacey Moran,
Maurizio Montalti, Adam Nocek,
Alice Twemlow, Karin de Jong.

July 11, 2019 16:00 – June 11, 2019 16:00

Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25 3015CB Rotterdam, The Netherlands

How might design, philosophy, science and mythology inform each other, while producing fresh and imaginative multi-species responses to address the genesis and future of ecological devastation?

FieldtripFieldtrip: Reader II
June 1, 2019 17:00 – June 1, 2019 00:00

Spring field trip in the framework of the Dust and Shadows project.

InstallationPandora’s Box installation

Conny Groenewegen, Maurizio Montalti, Adam Nocek, and Stacey Moran.

May 19, 2019 10:00 – September 15, 2019 18:00

Het Nieuwe Instituut Museumpark 25, 3015CB Rotterdam, The Netherlands

An instalment of the Synthetic Times series: a collaborative and iterative design project that critiques and reimagines human and nonhuman time in relation to modern and future technologies.

ExhibitionFashion Machine and the temptation of plastic clothing
April 4, 2019 10:00 – June 24, 2019 18:00

OBA Oosterdok Expo Hall, Oosterdokskade 143,
1011DL Amsterdam, The Netherland

Plastic is becoming a bigger problem because it does not end and slowly takes over our world. Even our wardrobe!

InstallationUnderwater Archeology
August 4, 2017 00:00 – August 4, 2017 00:00

This installation transports participants to an archeological dig in the desert southwest.