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recent activities
SWEAT - YoNoSudoBrillo
(2025)
Diana Ferro
SWEAT - YoNoSudoBrillo
Two weeks workshop held in Benidorm, Spain, in August 2024. In the context of EASA, European Architecture Students Assembly 2024 event. Tutored by Diana Ferro and Angelo Ciccaglione.
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In a sauna, people meet strangers and exchange stories while absorbing heat being naked and sweaty. In this workshop we brought the sauna to a step further: we absorbed heat, stories, gestures, words, objects, skills, dreams and sweat them out to other people, re-enacting what we have learned. Also naked, why not.
We learnt how to live, how to breathe, how to make a kebab, how to embody old wisdom, how to tie shoes the proper way. All you need is a fan, a towel and a body. A kebab stick, a drink, some snackies. Participants developed a deeper perspective on what it means to operate within a complex identity such as the city and gained skills to open their own kebab shop.
Improv_Loops: Ambient Music as Everyday Practice
(2025)
Juho Aaro Aapeli Tuomainen
Improvised ambient music making is a multi-dimensional process where the musical and the artistical skills are implemented into a dance between the mind of the performer and the creative use of technology. Both the mind and the machine together create a symbiotic relationship which over a course of a longer improvisational process produces a calming effect on the body and the mind, a sensation which in this artistic research is referred to as âthe slow buzzâ. Over an 18-month period from June 2023 to December 2024 I practiced the creation of improvised ambient music by keeping a routine which included mechanical guitar warm ups, a meditation session and a recording session for an improvised ambient music track. This routine laid a solid foundation for my artistic work, generating all in all 360 improvised ambient tracks, which were all listened and analysed along the way. All the know-how and the musical style that emerged from this routine eventually led to the creation of a continuous, flowing form of improvisational live-ambient music. I then rehearsed, filmed, and analysed the resulting ambient music 40 times during the autumn of 2024 in order to gain insight into the mindstates that are affiliated with the creation of improvised ambient music. The final outcome of this artistic research process was then to be presented in the form of a solo concert during the Global Spring Festival, on the 15th of May 2025.
recent publications
A Note on the Idea of Networks Like a Contrivance in Epic Theatre
(2025)
Tolga Theo Yalur
The theoretical wisdom of the Epic theater derives from the conceptual perspective of Bertolt Brecht toward communication and performing arts in "Der Rundfunk als Kommunikationsapparat" (1932). Brecht's version of the radio reminds the participatory politics in the internet, which he later theorizes for theatre-qua-critique of the aristotelian drama of binding the spectator to the fiction ideologically, in the vicious cycles of pre- learned codes, the traditional and phony wisdoms of clans and classes, where the mere potential for change is to turn into a "petit bourgeois".
Psychanalyse est une Science Cognitif
(2025)
Tolga Theo Yalur
RĂ©sumĂ©: Cet article est un dĂ©tour cognitif-psychanalytique autour des thĂ©ories, hypothĂšses et des revendications cognitives, des idĂ©ologies, et des leurs conventions ou rĂ©futations. Bien quâil soit davantage rencontrĂ© dans les sciences humaines, la mode de structuration des Ă©vĂ©nements, des happenings, est Ă©galement un concept significatif dans les sciences cognitives. Les sciences cognitives conçoivent les fictions des realite faire des donnĂ©es du sens commun et postulats qui dĂ©cident des problĂšmes dans leur conditionnement mĂȘme. Sans doute apparaĂźt-il dâemblĂ©e que les cadres dans lesquels les sciences humaines classent les phĂ©nomĂšnes en sensations, perceptions, images, croyances, fonctions et travaillĂ©s logiques, jugements, etc., sont empruntĂ©s comme tels au travail de siĂšcles de philosophie. Loin dâavoir Ă©tĂ© forgĂ©s pour une conception objective de la rĂ©alitĂ© humaine, ces cadres ne sont que les produits de la destruction abstraite oĂč se tracent les vicissitudes dâun effort spĂ©cifique, qui pousse lâhomme Ă chercher la confiance, la vĂ©ritĂ©, la conscience de soi et lâunivers. Une confiance qui est transcendante dans sa position, et qui le reste donc dans la forme, mĂȘme lorsque le philosophe en nie l'existence. Les tendances Ă une confiance absolue dans les explications naturalistes des phĂ©nomĂšnes culturellement conditionnĂ©s exigent une un encadrer l'appropriation cognitive des concepts scientifiques. Dans les chapitres consĂ©cutives, ce livre critiques d'appropriations des concepts darwinienne dans les discours libĂ©rale dĂ©tourne le darwinisme scientifique dans lâidĂ©e de sâappropriation moins avec ou aux technologies avancĂ©es que de les adapter aux valeurs idĂ©ologiques libĂ©rales croissantes qui elles- mĂȘmes sont devenues plus autoritaires dans leurs rĂšgles non Ă©crites dâentrepreneuriat, dâauto-Ă©valuation et de dĂ©veloppement individuel, particuliĂšrement lâesprit humaine.
LâHypothĂšse Nulle des Theories du Dessein Intelligent
(2025)
Tolga Theo Yalur
Le dessein intelligent est le mot Ă la mode des crĂ©ationnistes des annĂ©es 2000 qui concerne lâinterprĂ©tation idĂ©ologique de la machine et des donnĂ©es. Ici, la question est celle des ressemblances religieuses prescrites, pour lesquelles le dĂ©bat sur le dessein intelligent emprunte aux donnĂ©es non corporelles pour projeter des incorporations fictives Ă lâinformation, en prĂ©sumant des mentales de similitude, sinon dâexactitude, qui pourraient donner lieu Ă une crĂ©ation religieuse prescrite.