[spectre] On Hypozoology, Meeting with Louis Bec - 8 December 2015, Paris

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On Hypozoology
Meeting with Louis Bec, Zoosystemician
08 December 2015
19h00 to 21h00
Jeu de Paume, Concorde, Paris
http://www.jeudepaume.org/index.php?page=article&idArt=2515

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In the frame of the online project "ADM XI", which proposes a taxonomic
study or a classification of trading algorithms, the Jeu de Paume and
the RYBN collective have invited Louis Bec, artist, scientist and the
only zoosystemician on earth, to discuss the fundamentals of his research.

The classification of living things by the living beings can be
considered as one of the first experiments of modeling undertaken by the
human species to make comprehensible a strangely heterogeneous world.
Taxonomy has thus gradually become an act of creation of potential,
additive, adaptive and predictive, universes, all the while attempting
to apply grids on a elusive reality in the interest of producing an
objective reading. Current scientific classifications, based on the most
recent discoveries of molecular biology and genetic engineering, have
generated virtualities that depart from original nature. In order to
explore the consequences of this virtualization within the
classification of living organisms, Louis Bec develops a virtual
Hypozoology, a weird and eccentric zoology emerging from beneath the
appearances where an exotic and unusal living organism evolves : the
Upokrinomene.

Taxonomy is, for Louis Bec and prolific means for artificial creation,
as Nelson Goodman describes it, an efficient "way of world making‚". Bec
will illustrate his talk with digital modeling, videos, classification
diagrams and schemes.

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Louis Bec was born in Algeria in 1936. As a zoosystemician and
researcher he describes artificial life from the angle of epistemology
appealing to the methodological side of modeling, bioinformatics and
technozoosemiotics.
Publications: "Vampyroteuthis Infernalis" (with V.Flusser, Göttingen,
1988), "Elements d'épistemologie fabulatoire" (ed. by C.Langton, Santa
Fe, 1990), "Elements D'Hypozoologie" (G.Pompidou Centre, Paris, 1993),
"Esthetique du renfloue" (ed. by P.Weibel, Munich-Vienna, 1993), "La Vie
artificielle comme machination" (Ars Electronica, Linz, 1993), "Des
systemes technozoologiques comme fabulation" (French Institute, Bilbao,
1996). Chief curator of "Le Vivant et l'artificiel" (Avignon 1984),
Art/Cognition" (Aix en Provence 1992), "Emaitre" (Moscow-Genoa 1996-99)
and "AVIGNONumeriqie / Les Mutalogues" (Avignon - the Cultural Capital
of Europe, 2000), as well as "E-agora" and "Alterne" (London, Lausanne,
Graz, Amsterdam, Marseilles and others, 2002-05). Founder and president
of the Research Institute of Paranaturalistics (Sorgues 1972). Research
in the field of artificial life conducted in collaboration with the
French National Science Centre (CNRS), the Laboratory of Photon
Researches at the Strasbourg University (ENSPS/ARTCAPI), the Biology
Laboratory at the University of Grenoble and others.
http://www.flusserstudies.net/person/louis-bec

The french translation of "Vampyrotheutis Infernarlis" is published on
November, 2015, by Zones Sensibles.
http://www.zones-sensibles.org/flusser-bec-vampyroteuthis-infernalis/

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ADM XI is an online platform created by the RYBN.ORG collective,
co-produced by the Jeu de Paume, curated Inke Arns, curator of the
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund. ADM XI exhibits trading
algorithms proposed by b01xy, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Femke Herregraven,
Brendan Howell, Martin Howse, Nicolas Montgermont, Horia Cosmin Samoila,
Antoine Schmitt, Marc Swynghedauw, Suzanne Treister.
http://espacevirtuel.jeudepaume.org/

Rencontre à l'auditorium du Jeu de Paume, le mardi 8 décembre à 19
heures. Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles.
http://www.jeudepaume.org/index.php?page=article&idArt=2510