Computation and Design-Digital Media Speaker Series presents:

Omnipresent Algorithms
World-Making & Distributed Creativity
by Stavros Didakis

Date: Thursday, October 9
Time: 6-7 pm
Location: Performance Cafe

Speaker Bio:

Stavros Didakis is an academic, researcher, and artist focusing on the speculation of technological futures and in particular studying and experimenting with architectural augmentation and inhabitant personalization, exploring sensorial interfaces and technological frameworks as extensions of human environments. Stavros has won grants and awards in creative technologies, he has exhibited his interactive works in international exhibitions and biennale, and he has made numerous publications in conferences, journals, and books. Stavros is at present an Associate Professor in Interactive Media Arts with New York University (Shanghai).

https://soniconlab.com/

Abstract:

Omnipresent Algorithms, World-Making, & Distributed Creativity Creation, once attributed exclusively to divine will, now emerges through distributed ecologies of human and machinic actions. Drawing on theology, philosophy, and artistic practice, the lecture frames advanced computational systems as omnipresent, generative, and sovereign in shaping perception, matter, and life. Through diagrams, installations, and speculative experiments developed by the author, it demonstrates how divergent processes unfold across biological, cultural, and computational domains, unsettling human centrality while proposing new ontologies of world-making and synthetic sentience.