Rasmus Nielsen, from collective Superflex, discusses how puffer-fish circles, biomimicry and translation inform the group’s current interest in agency and aesthetics beyond the human and the project they are developing in a recently discovered island in the South Pacific.
Artists, dancers, writers and scientists gathered at the London Zoo to consider animal, human and artificial consciousness, language, and interspecies communication. See below for participants. Participants include writer Ted Chiang, artist Michela de Mattei; dancer Claire Filmon (performing Simone Forti); artist Rasmus Nielsen; dolphin cognition researcher Diana Reiss, as well as a remote participation by Internet pioneer Vint Cerf and a screening of The Great Silence by Allora & Calzadilla (in collaboration with Ted Chiang).
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