Material Ways of Knowing: Material Intelligence on the Eve of Artificial General Intelligence
American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina, 5
Roma
Data evento
16 Marzo 2026
This event is part working group, part think-tank, and part walking seminar. A group of artists, archaeologists, and engineers/scientists will come together in Rome to develop an argument about the kind of knowledge that can be derived from materials of the past by bodies/agents in the world. We also will explore the potential of three-cornered conversations between artists, humanities scholars, and scientists. Each participant in this group comes with a set of expertise and bodies of knowledge; working together on sites and with objects, we work to generate the somewhat magical process of producing knowledge from encounters between individuals and things. We will take advantage of the city of Rome as a dense site of artefacts and research on those materials.