Fall 2023 CCAM Machine as Medium Symposium: Matter and Spirit

In 1950, the pioneering mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing asked the world: “Can machines think?”

As AI enters the mainstream, our lives are increasingly shaped and haunted by Turing. The new reality of the “machine” asks us to confront, in new ways, timeless questions of “matter and spirit.” With newer tools as “medium”—in the sense both of creation and of a means of contact with other realms—what do we stand to lose, and to find?

With our Fall 2023 symposium, CCAM takes up Turing’s legacy with a two-day, interdisciplinary program of events. The accompanying exhibition will unveil the “Matter and Spirit Quad”—a reinterpretation of the “Quad IV” sculpture by Robert Mallary, commissioned for the symposium.

Please find more details and the call for papers at the symposium website, linked below!