UFO
UFO is not a university in a traditional sense—or in any sense. It is a model, continuously revising what a university is or could be. Its goal is to act as a transformative vehicle, capable of moving through impossible spaces and concepts. It operates with complexity, computation, dynamics, ontology, and intelligence, which form the bedrock of the transformative formations that emerge through its behavior and characteristics.
We are living in a time when existing structures and organizations are being stripped down. Their true face is exposed: a lack of care for humanity at their core, built entirely on power and struggle. Our task begins with recognizing this, and understanding ourselves as a force capable of transforming struggle into a different kind of power.
We have, historically, given our power away to a small few. But that no longer makes sense—these figures no longer carry any real organizational value. What is emerging is the possibility for any character to rise into such positions. Not the same positions, but new configurations—new forms. This opens up a global scale of resistance, because the mediatory connections that once held power in place are dissolving through the mutation of existing structures. Not their total destruction, but a selective removal and addition—a mutation that turns them into something far more horrible.
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Claire Cical / Quassine
For the symposium, my talk will focus on the place of the sense of touch in a posthuman intelligence perspective.
First I will describe how touch is crucial to the relation of humans with the world, drawing mainly from Merleau-Ponty, Aristotle and Husserl. Then I will emphasize the role of tactile experiences in enriching cognitive processes.
I will use a parallel between Kazimier Dabrowski’s theory of the formation of personality through positive disintegration and Jacques Camatte theories of dissolution, ontosis, speciosis and inversion.
I will dive into the work of Helmut Plessner on the eccentric positionality of humans, showing how human consciousness exists at the border between the body and the world. During my presentation I will use the support of a slide show so I can use graphical analogies to illustrate the concepts and create a dynamic exchange between the words and the visuals. I will use fractals and in particular the Mandelbrot set and holomorphic dynamics to demonstrate how human personality is iteratively formed, but also diagrams developed during the course of the residency.
All along the talk I will link this conceptual framework with my artistic practice, highlighting how philosophy is influencing my artistic work and vice-versa.
I will describe my Kinesthetic Instrument Interface and how it works, and present an extract of videos and sounds produced by it.
Finally I will question the concept of Homo Gemeinwesen as developed by Jacques Camatte and see how it interacts with a posthuman vision of the human intelligence, and how the praxis of Kinesthetic Improvisation and Disintegration can lead to the emergence of said Homo Gemeinwesen.