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Activities

2020
26
Mar
CANCELLED

The Centaur Model?
19:30 – 21:00
 

Bot Club investigates the possibilities of Garry Kasparov's 'centaur model' as a metaphor for healthy working relationships between humans and artificial intelligences. Human-AI relations are complicated and often downright disfunctional. At this event, the aim is to bring the myths, technologies and politics of human-AI relationships closer together - from a position of mutual respect, yet with an awareness of each other's shortcomings. 

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2018
11
Oct
Bot Club

Anticipating Crime
19:30 – 21:00
 

Bot Club takes a critical look at the social effects of predicting crime using algorithms. With speakers Nirit Peled and Fieke Jansen.

 

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2018
16
Feb
Critical Making session

Smart Contracts
10:00 – 17:30
 

The day after Bot Club: Legal Bots, a group of maximally 25 coders, designers, artists and thinkers will follow up on the questions addressed in the Bot Club with a practice based approach to speculating on the possibilities of smart contracts.

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2018
15
Feb
Bot Club

Legal Bots
19:30 – 21:00
 

In the legal field, automation is rife. Some lawyers claim that by 2030 99% of legal procedure can be automated. Legal Bots looks at different attempts to fuse the law and programming language together. To what extent can we translate the spirit of the law into the letter of computer code? With Matthias Dobbelaere-Welvaert and Max Hamsphire.

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2017
16
Jun
 

Critical Bots Hackathon
09:30 – 17:00
 

On 16 June 2017 Het Nieuwe Instituut's Research & Development team presents a programme around the Thursday Night Live! Bot Club: Critical Bots event on 15 June.

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2017
15
Jun
Bot Club (humans welcome)

Critical Bots
19:30 – 21:30
 

This Bot Club evening focussed on Critical Bots. With presentations by media artist Julian Oliver, digital culture researcher Anne Helmond, and the bots themselves.

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2017
15
Jun
Report

Criticial Bots

15/06/2017 – 16/06/2017
 

On 15 and 16 June 2017 The Bot Club (humans welcome): Critical Bots event was held at Het Nieuwe Instituut. During the Thursday Night Live! The Bot Club: Critical Bots event, Julian Oliver and Anne Helmond gave lectures and the next day a Hackathon was organized. Criticial Bots was the second edition of Bots Club (humans welcome), a recurring program on algorithmic culture by Het Nieuwe Instituut. 

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2017
11
May
 

Masterclass Art Bots by Darius Kazemi
13:30
Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond

Het Nieuwe Instituut and FIBER present a masterclass in bot making by bot artist and creative coder Darius Kazemi (US) at the Brakke Grond in Amsterdam on May 11.

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2017
02
Mar
Bot Club (humans welcome)

Bot culture
19:30 – 21:00
 

On 2 March 2017 The Bot Club took a critical look at a world in which bots, algorithmic agents and generative processes do the work. Helping to place this world centre stage are media artist and bot-maker, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, and Me You and the Robot.

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Research Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, R&D Department
Research assistant Adriaan Odendaal