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Flourishing is the centerpiece of positive psychology, and Robert Nozick's "experience machine" shows that positive experiences alone are not sufficient for flourishing.

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Everything (video game) by artist David OReilly, 2017.

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technology / noun
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The application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life.

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"Technology is the active human interface with the material world. But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex & specialised technologies of the past few decades"

Ursula Le Guin

Conway's Game of Life, 1970.

Dreamachine "Explore the extraordinary potential of your mind," 2022. Photo by David Levene.

MRI of a brain, source unknown.

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“Adjacent Possible [...] is really based on one idea. Things can be combined to make new things”

Stuart Kauffman
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“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us”

Marshall McLuhan
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“Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing”

Paola Antonelli
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Welcome to new possibilities

We are a non-profit exploring how technology can better support creativity and human fulfillment.

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Snow goggles: a type of eyewear traditionally used by the Inuit and the Yupik peoples of the Arctic to prevent snow blindness. Image source unknown.

A rolling swarm of caterpillars moves faster than any single caterpillar. Video source unknown.

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“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ambient Machine by Yuri Suzuki, 2022.

Song of the Ambassadors, a neuro-science based opera by K Allado-McDowell, 2022.

[ C-1 ] Introduction

Swipe or drag to start exploring the origins of who we are.

[ C-1 ] Introduction

Swipe or drag to start exploring the origins of who we are.

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Song of the Ambassadors
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Ambient Machine
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Source — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Snowgoggles
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Swarm
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About us
We are a non-profit exploring how technology can better support creativity and human fulfillment.
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Source — Paola Antonelli
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Source — Marshall McLuhan
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Source — Stuart Kauffman
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Dreamachine
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MRI of a brain
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Conway's Game of Life
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Source — Ursula Le Guin
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technology /tɛkˈnɒlədʒi/
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Everything (videogame)
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Positive Psychology: FAQs
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Song of the Ambassadors
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Ambient Machine
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Source — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Snowgoggles
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Swarm
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About us
We are a non-profit exploring how technology can better support creativity and human fulfillment.
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Source — Paola Antonelli
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Source — Marshall McLuhan
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Source — Stuart Kauffman
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Dreamachine
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MRI of a brain
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Conway's Game of Life
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Source — Ursula Le Guin
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technology /tɛkˈnɒlədʒi/
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Everything (videogame)
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Positive Psychology: FAQs
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[ AE-002 ] Ping Practice

Like a camera roll for your thoughts, Ping Practice encourages you to "take pictures" of placeless thoughts so that you can more easily return to them later.

See full project overview.

[ C-2 ] Introduction

Our second Applied Experiment supported the development of Ping Practice, a not-for-profit journaling method and app.

[ C-2 ] Introduction

Our second Applied Experiment supported the development of Ping Practice, a not-for-profit journaling method and app.

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Ping Practice: A Method
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Capture a Ping
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Project Overview
Like a camera roll for your thoughts, Ping Practice encourages you to "take pictures" of placeless thoughts so that you can more easily return to them later.
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Ping Practice: A Method
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Capture a Ping
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Project Overview
Like a camera roll for your thoughts, Ping Practice encourages you to "take pictures" of placeless thoughts so that you can more easily return to them later.

People gathering offline for the event celebrating the server going online.

The server in the space. Photo by Tommy Smits.

The decaying screen of the server. Photos by Tommy Smits.

The "Social Server" itself. Photo by Tommy Smits.

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[ AE-001 ] Social Server

Artist Lukas Engelhardt created a server that's only accessible when users are together in the same space; forcing people offline to get together online.

See full project overview.

[ C-3 ] Introduction

Our first Applied Experiment asks: can the internet's infrastructure bring us back together?

[ C-3 ] Introduction

Our first Applied Experiment asks: can the internet's infrastructure bring us back together?

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Project Overview
Artist Lukas Engelhardt created a server that's only accessible when users are together in the same space; forcing people offline to get together online.
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Server Close-Up
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Decaying Screen
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People offline to get online
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The server in the space
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Project Overview
Artist Lukas Engelhardt created a server that's only accessible when users are together in the same space; forcing people offline to get together online.
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Server Close-Up
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Decaying Screen
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People offline to get online
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The server in the space
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"It is not the answers that enlighten but the questions."

Eugène Ionesco
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What are we asking?

We’re exploring what people value, what makes their lives fulfilling, and what kinds of relationships to technology they already cherish.

Discover the questions.

Read full interview with Audrey Tang, Cyber Ambassador-at-Large. Photo by themself.

Read full interview with Mindy Seu, Designer and Technologist. Photo by Anna Ritsch.

Read full interview with Jae Yeon Kim, 3D Artist. Visual by themself.

Read full interview with Simon Denny, artist. Photo by Nick Ash.

Read the full interview with Elvia Wilk, writer and editor. Photo by Isabella de Maddalena.

Read the full interview with Omar Rizwan, programmer. Photo via Notion.

Read the full interview with Tony Lashley, founder. Photo by unknown.

Read the full interview with Mat Dryhurst, Technology Artist. Photo by Silke Briel.

Read the full interview with Xin Liu, artist and engineer. Photo by Wenxuan Wang.

Read the full interview with Kate Ray, programmer to chef. Photo by James Huang.

Read the full interview with Jack Self, architect. Photo by Olafur Eliasson.

Read the full interview with Elie Andersen, communication and community.

Read the full interview with Emil Grip (Limbo Accra), Spatial Design.

Read the full interview with Pedro Sanches, designer.

Read the full interview with Wendi Yan, artist. Photo by Weidong Yan.

Read the full interview with Philip Maughan, writer. Photo by Julia Campbell-Gillies.

Read the full interview with Xiaowei R. Wang, PhD artist and writer. Photo by Ian Pearce.

Read the full interview with Salome Asega, Artist, Researcher, Director. Photo by Jeremy Grier.

Read the full interview with Hugh Francis, Founder and Coder. Photo by Conor Davidson.

Read the full interview with Helen Hester, Writer and Educator. Photo rights her own.

Read the full interview with Daniel O'Sullivan, Associate Professor. Photo by Kate Swann.

Read the full interview with Taeyoon Choi, Artist and Writer. Photo by Joe Swide.

Read the full interview with Miriam Simun, Artist. Photo by Andrea Sisson.

Read the full interview with Dean Kissick, Writer. Photo by Manuel Vazquez.

Read the full interview with Worker as Futurist, writers of "The World After Amazon.". Illustration by Amanda Priebe.

[ C-0 ] Introduction

A weekly interview series on human fulfillment.

[ C-0 ] Introduction

A weekly interview series on human fulfillment.

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[ INTRVW-025 ] Worker as Futurist
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[ INTRVW-024 ] Dean Kissick
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[ INTRVW-023 ] Miriam Simun
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[ INTRVW-022 ] Taeyoon Choi
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[ INTRVW-021 ] Daniel O'Sullivan
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[ INTRVW-020 ] Helen Hester
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[ INTRVW-019 ] Hugh Francis
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[ INTRVW-018 ] Salome Asega
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[ INTRVW-017 ] Xiaowei R. Wang
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[ INTRVW-016 ] Philip Maughan
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[ INTRVW-015 ] Wendi Yan
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[ INTRVW-014 ] Pedro Sanches
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[ INTRVW-013 ] Emil Grip
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[ INTRVW-012 ] Elie Andersen
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[ INTRVW-011 ] Jack Self
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[ INTRVW-010 ] Kate Ray
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[ INTRVW-009 ] Xin Liu
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[ INTRVW-008 ] Mat Dryhurst
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[ INTRVW-007 ] Tony Lashley
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[ INTRVW-006 ] Omar Rizwan
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[ INTRVW-005 ] Elvia Wilk
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[ INTRVW-004 ] Simon Denny
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[ INTRVW-003 ] Jae Yeon Kim
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[ INTRVW-002 ] Mindy Seu
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[ INTRVW-001 ] Audrey Tang
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[ INTRVW-021 ] Daniel O'Sullivan
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[ INTRVW-011 ] Jack Self
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[ INTRVW-010 ] Kate Ray
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[ INTRVW-009 ] Xin Liu
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[ INTRVW-008 ] Mat Dryhurst
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[ INTRVW-007 ] Tony Lashley
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[ INTRVW-006 ] Omar Rizwan
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[ INTRVW-005 ] Elvia Wilk
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Dreamachine (2022)

The Abramović Method (2016)

Somebody (2014)

Keyboard of Empowerment (2017)

The Solar Protocol (2021)

Durr (2013)

Everything (2017)

Ambient Machine (2022)

Memory Seed (2015)

Community Memory (1973)

Territoriet (2015)

Tonelab (2018)

Bags of Beliefs (2018)

Stop-IT (2008)

Oblique Strategies (1970s)

Up (2009)

Cyclemarks (2024)

SOMI-1 (2021)

Light Phone II (2023)

Buddha Machine (2005)

Song of the Ambassadors (2022)

Open Source Rotary Cellphone (2020)

Peacemaker (2021)

Breathing Pavilion (2021)

The Mutual Wave Machine (2013)

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The Reference Index is also live on are.na and open for your submissions at referenceindex[at]apossible.com

[ C-1 ] Introduction

Welcome to our growing database of existing projects (by others), exemplifying our interests.

[ C-1 ] Introduction

Welcome to our growing database of existing projects (by others), exemplifying our interests.

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also live on are.na
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Breathing Pavilion (2021)
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The Mutual Wave Machine (2013)
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Peacemaker (2021)
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Open Source Rotary Cellphone (2020)
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Song of the Ambassadors (2022)
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Buddha Machine (2005)
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Light Phone II (2023)
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SOMI-1 (2021)
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Cyclemarks (2024)
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Oblique Strategies (1970s)
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Up (2009)
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Stop-IT (2008)
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Bags of Beliefs (2018)
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Tonelab (2018)
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Territoriet (2015)
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Community Memory (1973)
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Memory Seed (2015)
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Ambient Machine (2022)
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Everything (2017)
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Durr (2013)
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The Solar Protocol (2021)
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Keyboard of Empowerment (2017)
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Somebody (2014)
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The Abramovic Method (2016)
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Dreamachine (2022)
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also live on are.na
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Breathing Pavilion (2021)
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The Mutual Wave Machine (2013)
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Peacemaker (2021)
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Open Source Rotary Cellphone (2020)
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Song of the Ambassadors (2022)
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Buddha Machine (2005)
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Light Phone II (2023)
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SOMI-1 (2021)
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Cyclemarks (2024)
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Oblique Strategies (1970s)
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Up (2009)
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Stop-IT (2008)
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Bags of Beliefs (2018)
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Tonelab (2018)
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Territoriet (2015)
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Community Memory (1973)
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Memory Seed (2015)
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Ambient Machine (2022)
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Everything (2017)
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Durr (2013)
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The Solar Protocol (2021)
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Keyboard of Empowerment (2017)
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Somebody (2014)
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The Abramovic Method (2016)
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Dreamachine (2022)
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Questions We Were Left With:

How can the embodied human experience guide the future of robotics? // What if the future of conversational AI hangs on human vulnerability rather than technical capability? // Can music be a bridge between consciousness and deeper reality? Can AI be funny? // Will synthetic intelligence separate humans from nature?

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In January 2024, Rhizome presented the 14th edition of artists and technologists coming together, across 7 pairings, for short term collaborations to “make something new.” APOSSIBLE participated as a research partner.

Creative Pairing: Dr. Stephon Alexander and Reggie Watts.

Animated logo of 2024's 7x7, courtesy of Rhizome.

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Xinran Yuan's Opening Statement

"Although 7X7 has been engaging with issues around AI for over a decade, we decided this year that we had an opportunity, and maybe even a responsibility..."

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Creative Pairing: Eugenia Kuyda and Lynn Hershman Leeson.

Creative Pairing: David Robert and Miriam Simun.

Creative Pairing: Harry Halpin and Tomás Saraceno.

Creative Pairing: Christina Agapakis and Xin Liu.

Creative Pairing: Cristóbal Valenzuela and Ana Fabrega.

Creative Pairing: Alan Steremberg and Rindon Johnson.

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“No tool is neutral. Each has affordances.”

Michael Connor
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“Replika is much more about human vulnerability than technical capability”

Eugenia Kuyda
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“What would happen if we defined intelligence less on how well someone/something knows, and rather on how well they react to unexpected, ambiguous, and uncertain situations? If this was the metric by which we defined intelligence, how might we build our robots and our A.I. differently?” — Miriam Simum

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“It’s important for artists and technologists, but especially artists, to get ahead of the curve [with A.I.]… even if you arrive at ‘this isn’t for me,’ be there at the table to have an opinion so it can be steered in a direction that’s most useful.” - Reggie Watts

Stephon Alexander plays saxophone at 7x7. Photo by OWLEY Studios, Courtesy of Rhizome.

Qasim Naqvi, Xin Liu, Christina Agapakis, and Josh Dunn present at 7x7. Photo by OWLEY Studios, Courtesy of Rhizome.

Michael Connor at 7x7. Photo by OWLEY Studios, Courtesy of Rhizome. Video projection by Transcendence Creative.

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APOSSIBLE's Closing Thoughts: Experimentation and collaboration between disciplines is an important way to engage with new technologies. Creative people and outsiders can...

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Ben Shirken, Reggie Watts and Stephon Alexander jam at Seven on Seven, January 27, 2024 at the New Museum. Photo by Mettie Ostrowski, Courtesy of Rhizome.

Mor Mendel as seen through Spot's camera perform together for Seven on Seven, January 27, 2024 at the New Museum. Photo by OWLEY Studios, Courtesy of Rhizome.

Reggie Watts takes a picture of Michael Connor at the Pre-conference dinner on January 26, 2024 at the New Museum. Photo by Alexey Kim / Sidewalkkilla, Courtesy of Rhizome.

Rin Johnson and Alan Steremberg are interviewed at Water Street Projects for Seven on Seven Collaboration Day, January 26 2024. Photo by OWLEY Studios, Courtesy of Rhizome.

[ C-2 ] Introduction

A few takeaways from us attending and participating in Rhizome's 7×7 program.

[ C-2 ] Introduction

A few takeaways from us attending and participating in Rhizome's 7×7 program.

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Scene Report 2
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Scene Report 1
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Miriam Simun Quote
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Reggie Watts Quote
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Source — Eugenia Kuyda
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Source — Michael Connor
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Alan Steremberg and Rindon Johnson
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Christina Agapakis and Xin Liu
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Cristóbal Valenzuela and Ana Fabrega
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Harry Halpin and Tomás Saraceno
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David Robert and Miriam Simun
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Eugenia Kuyda and Lynn Hershman Leeson
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Opening Statement
"Although 7X7 has been engaging with issues around AI for over a decade, we decided this year that we had an opportunity, and maybe even a responsibility..."
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7x7 Logo
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Dr. Stephon Alexander and Reggie Watts
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Context
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Questions We Were Left With
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Scene Report 7
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Scene Report 6
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Scene Report 4
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Scene Report 5
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Closing Thoughts
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Scene Report 2
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Scene Report 1
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Miriam Simun Quote
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Reggie Watts Quote
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Source — Eugenia Kuyda
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Source — Michael Connor
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Alan Steremberg and Rindon Johnson
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Christina Agapakis and Xin Liu
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Cristóbal Valenzuela and Ana Fabrega
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Harry Halpin and Tomás Saraceno
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David Robert and Miriam Simun
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Eugenia Kuyda and Lynn Hershman Leeson
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Opening Statement
"Although 7X7 has been engaging with issues around AI for over a decade, we decided this year that we had an opportunity, and maybe even a responsibility..."
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7x7 Logo
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Dr. Stephon Alexander and Reggie Watts
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Questions We Were Left With
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Moods shape our space here

Symbol shifts with each feeling

Site lives, breathes clear.

The identity lives and breathes from an ever shifting location

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A living & breathing connected machine

The design and layout of this website and identity is ever-shifting, responding to the dynamic real world environment it lives in.

Find out more

Klima Kontrolle by Moniker

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Fabric of the machine

Frequently asked questions about how our organic identity lives, answered from a technical perspective.

Read the FAQ's

HC-SR04 Arduino Ultrasonic Transducer sensor module

[ C-3 ] Introduction

Explore the blueprint of our living & breathing identity.

[ C-3 ] Introduction

Explore the blueprint of our living & breathing identity.

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Identity In Motion
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Proximity Sensor
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Control Panel
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Fabric of the machine
Frequently asked questions about how our organic identity lives, answered from a technical perspective.
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Klima Kontrolle
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A living & breathing connected machine
The design and layout of this website and identity is ever-shifting, responding to the dynamic real world environment it lives in.
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Supplier of energy
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Moods shape our space here
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Identity In Motion
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Proximity Sensor
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Control Panel
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Fabric of the machine
Frequently asked questions about how our organic identity lives, answered from a technical perspective.
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Klima Kontrolle
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A living & breathing connected machine
The design and layout of this website and identity is ever-shifting, responding to the dynamic real world environment it lives in.
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Supplier of energy
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Moods shape our space here

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