The international symposium “Creative Consciousness” + Exhibitions of art works, The University of Osaka Nakanoshima Art Center

[Overview]
This symposium and exhibitions of art works challenge the idea that the “world” and the “self” are constructed through information and computation in this age of AI supremacy and reconsider subjectivity and art through the lens of “perpetual creation,” where materiality, the body, and action collaborate.

[Program: Sunday, February 22]
<Session 1> Language: English (with interpretation)
Moderator: Hitoshi Tanaka (The University of Osaka)
9:30 Opening Remarks: Genta Kawahara (Director, The University of Osaka Nakanoshima Art Center)
9:35 Introduction of the Symposium Theme: Yukio Pegio Gunji
9:45 Terence W. Deacon: “Abduction: The common dynamics of hypothesis generation in cognition and biological evolution”
10:15 Minoru Asada “From Robot Pain to Silicopathy (Artificial Empathy) and Moral Agency: A Developmental Pathway toward Artificial Consciousness?”
10:45 Break
11:00 Nobuhiro Ito “The Relationship Between ‘The Other World’ and ‘This World’ in Miwa Masahiro's Composition ‘Netori + Spell Twitter’” (2025)
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Alessandro Chiolerio “Colloidal Cybernetic Media: Ferrofluid Matter, Subjectivity and Intelligence Beyond AI”
14:30 Kyoko Nakamura “Materializing Absence: Kakiwari Structures”
15:00 Discussion
15:30 Break & Exhibition
17:00 Ichiro Nagasaka “Judgment, Reasoning, and Function”
17:30 Tomas Veloz “Aitopoiesis: When Self-Protection Meets Causality”
18:00-18:30 Discussion

[Program: Monday (National Holiday), February 23]
<Session 1> Language: English (with interpretation)
Moderator: Hitoshi Tanaka (The University of Osaka)
10:00 Igor Balaz “The Architecture of Creative Understanding: Bridging Mechanism and Meaning in Machine Cognition”
10:30 Yukio Pegio Gunji “Creativity driven by the relationship between information and matter”
11:00 Discussion
11:30 Lunch
<Session 2> Language: Japanese
13:30 Introduction of the Theme: Nobuhiro Ito (Deputy Director, The University of Osaka Nakanoshima Art Center)
13:40 General Discussion by Members of the Center
15:40-16:00 Closing Remarks: Nobuhiro Ito

*For more details, please check the “Details, including lecture titles” on the following page.
https://www.art.osaka-u.ac.jp/research_program/648