[spectre] N.K. Berlin: GenComp Collective & Booklaunch “Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience”

[Manuela Benetton]

*N.K.*

Friday Dec 2nd 2011 doors 21:00 concert 22:00 *GenComp Collective &
Booklaunch “Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural
Contexts of Neuroscience”*

A concert night to accompany the workshop *“Neuro Reality Check”* at the
Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin *featuring music
performances by GenComp Collective.*

http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/workshops/en/Neuro-Reality-Check.html

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GenComp Collective Berlin: Chaotic, cybernetic, and hybrid systems.*

Neurological and cybernetic research techniques have been adopted by many
experimental music protagonists, such as Louis and Bebe Barron, Alvin
Lucier, David Tudor and others. The GenComp Collective Berlin (Alberto de
Campo, Hannes Hoelzl, and students, alumni and associates of the class
Generative Art / Computational Art at UdK Berlin) explores the use of such
systems for experimental performance. They use current developments like
Rob Hordijk’s chaotic synthesizers(the Benjolin and the Blippoo box), Peter
Blasser’s hybrid designs Fourses and the Rollz family of modules; they
design, build and program their own performance systems based on a variety
of sensors, analog electronics, and software synthesis.

The book to-be-launched: Choudhury, Suparna / Slaby, Jan (eds.):
*“Critical Neuroscience. A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of
Neuroscience.”*

*Critical Neuroscience: *A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of
Neuroscience brings together leading scholars in a collective effort to
understand the impact of the intellectual, economic and political
conditions on current views of the brain and how these models may in turn
impact society. With illuminating insights and deep scholarly rigour,
Critical Neuroscience offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary perspective
that aims to enrich our understanding of the brain as situated in the body
and world, and neuroscience as embedded in a complex cultural context.

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1444333283.html

Both workshop and evening event are open to the public; if you’d like to
attend the workshop though, please do register [link to mpiwg website
above] in advance.

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*N.K.*

Elsenstr. 52/
2.Hinterhaus Etage 2
12059 Berlin Neukölln
0049(0)17620626386

www.nkprojekt.de
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