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Fall 2023 CCAM Machine as Medium Symposium: Matter and Spirit
November 2 and 3, 2023
In 1950, the pioneering mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing asked the world: “Can machines think?”
As AI enters the mainstream, our lives are increasingly shaped and haunted by Turing. The new reality of the “machine” asks us to confront, in new ways, timeless questions of “matter and spirit.” With newer tools as “medium”—in the sense both of creation and of a means of contact with other realms—what do we stand to lose, and to find?
With our Fall 2023 symposium, CCAM takes up Turing’s legacy with a two-day, interdisciplinary program of events.
The accompanying exhibition will unveil the Matter and Spirit Quad—a reinterpretation of the Quad IV sculpture by Robert Mallary.
CCAM Team
Dana Karwas
Director and Critic, Yale School of Architecture
Lauren Dubowski
Assistant Director
Matthew Suttor
Program Manager and Senior Lecturer, Yale College
Ross Wightman
Technical Manager and Curator, CCAM Sound Art Series
Susan Youssef
Film Advisor
Paloma Izquierdo
CCAM/Yale School of Art Postgraduate Fellow
The Fall 2023 Machine as Medium Symposium: Matter and Spirit is presented with the support of Hewlett-Packard (HP). Learn more about sponsored research at CCAM here.