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DIFFUSION: A NEW VENTURE FOR ANTIKYTHERA

Available now on Substack

Antikythera Diffusion seeds and seeks ventures that scale computogenesis by channeling capital, ideas and talent.

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Events

salons

lectures

exhibitions

The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology

MAY–NOV 2025

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Venice

The exhibition, staged across two floors of the newly restored Venetian palazzo, presents two distinct but intersecting trajectories: The Noocene: Computation and Cosmology from Antikythera to AI, curated by Benjamin Bratton with Nicolay Boyadjiev from Antikythera, & Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet, curated by Nicholas de Monchaux with Ana Miljacki and Calvin Zhong from MIT Architecture.

The Next Earth Symposium

MAY 10, 2025

•

Palazzo Diedo, Venice

The Next Earth staged a dialogue between two pioneering research initiatives: Antikythera’s The Noocene: Computation and Cosmology from Antikythera to AI and MIT Architecture’s Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet. Installed on adjacent floors of Palazzo Diedo Berggruen Arts & Culture during the 19th International Venice Architecture Biennale, the event puts the two concepts in dialogue, raising urgent questions about our shared past, present, and futures and how philosophy and architecture must respond to planetary-scale crises.

Planetary Sapience

OCTOBER 25, 2024

•

MIT Media Lab

Planetary Sapience presented Antikythera’s speculative philosophy of computational technologies and planetary intelligence through a day-long symposium. The event featured short presentations of new work from Antikythera’s forthcoming digital Journal followed by lively discussion on the program’s key topics.

Speculative Philosophy of Planetary Computation

OCTOBER 23, 2024

•

MIT Media Lab

Keynote lecture by Benjamin Bratton, which featured Antikythera’s philosophy of technology and the speculative design work of the think tank. The keynote reviewed the program’s core research themes: planetary computation, synthetic intelligence, recursive simulations, hemispherical stacks, and planetary sapience, and presented glimpses of the content and ideas behind Antikythera’s forthcoming digital journal and book series with MIT Press.

Watch

Planetary Sapience & Planetary Stupidity: a Bildungsroman for the Baby Noosphere

JULY 8, 2024

•

CSM

In this talk, Thomas Moynihan explores Earth’s emergence into self-awareness through human intelligence, tracing the intertwined histories of scientific insight, planetary transformation, and technological folly as preludes to potential planetary sapience.

Watch

COGNITIVE INFRASTRUCTURES

JULY 5 2024

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London

This salon assembled researchers and thought leaders working across Synthetic Intelligence from Google-Deepmind, Cambridge Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge Centre for Existential Risk, Oxford, Turing Institute, and others spend a day discussing works in progress and with Cognitive Infrastructures London studio participants.

What is Intelligence?

JULY 4, 2024

•

CSM

What is Intelligence? is a lecture by Blaise Agüera y Arcas recorded in July 2024 in London as part of Antikythera’s Cognitive Infrastructures Studio lecture series.

Watch

57 Ideas & Questions about Cognitive Infrastructures

JULY 3, 2024

•

CSM

As AI becomes both more general and more foundational, it shouldn’t be seen as a disembodied virtual brain. It is a real, material force. AI is embedded into the active, decision-making processes of real world systems. As AI becomes infrastructural, infrastructures become intelligent. 

Watch

Recursive Worlds

JULY 2, 2024

•

CSM

Recursive Worlds is a lecture by Sara Walker recorded in July 2024 in London as part of Antikythera’s Cognitive Infrastructures Studio lecture series.

Watch

How to Think Unlike Humans?

JULY 1, 2024

•

CSM

Chen Qiufan provocatively interrogates the anthropocentric biases constraining human cognition, advocating for a radical epistemological recalibration through speculative fiction.

Watch

COGNITIVE INFRASTRUCTURES STUDIO

JUNE – JULY 2024

•

London

As artificial intelligence becomes infrastructural, and as societal infrastructures concurrently become more cognitive, the relation between AI theory and practice needs realignment. Across scales – from world-datafication and data visualization to users and UI, and back again – many of the most interesting problems in AI design are still embryonic.

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HEMISPHERICAL STACKS

MARCH 2024

•

Shanghai

A salon hosted by Antikythera and NYU Shanghai’s Center for AI and Culture convening science fiction writers, philosophers and technologies for a day-long event exchanging ideas and scenarios.

For a General Theory of Simulations

JANUARY 11, 2024

•

USC

So many disciplines deploy simulations, and yet they remain undertheorized. From scientific modeling to VR/AR, from engineering to entertainment, Antikythera is composing a general theory of simulations.

Watch

After Alignment

JUNE 28, 2023

•

CSM Platform Theater

A public lecture at Central St. Martins University of the Arts London reviewed shifts from AGI to artificial generic intelligence, the decentering of personal data, the challenges of AI in science, intelligence as an evolutionary scaffold, the limitations of mainstream AI ethics, and why a planetary model of synthetic intelligence must drive its geopolitical project.

Watch

PLANETARY COMPUTATION STUDIO

FEB – JUN 2023

•

LA / CDMX / Beijing

Antikythera’s inaugurative five-month speculative design Studio ran from February to June 2023, where Studio Researchers from diverse professional backgrounds took part in collaborative design briefs, theory seminars, and technical workshops to create projects contributing to a growing body of research on the program’s themes.

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HEMISPHERICAL STACKS

APRIL 2023

•

Beijing

This salon, co-curated with Berggruen Fellow and science fiction writer Chen Qiufan, assembled leading science fiction writers, philosophers, technologists, and researchers to explore sovereign data, foundational models, chip wars, and astropolitics through the production of rapid scenario fictions.

SYNTHETIC CATALLAXY

APRIL 2023

•

Mexico City

This salon, co-hosted with One Project Foundation, analyzed and developed planetary scale infrastructure, focused on four areas of research related to Synthetic Catallaxy: planning, price, carbon macroeconomics, and UBX (Universal Basic X).

RECURSIVE SIMULATIONS

NOVEMBER 2022

•

Los Angeles

A salon on Recursive Simulations focused on the emergence of simulations as an epistemological technology and the ways these models create worlds in turn.

PLANETARY COMPUTATION

OCTOBER 2022

•

Amsterdam

This salon explored possible trajectories for Antikythera’s program of reorienting planetary computation with researchers and makers.

PLANETARY COMPUTATION

OCTOBER 2022

•

Berlin

This salon explored possible trajectories for Antikythera’s program of reorienting planetary computation with researchers and makers.

PLANETARY COMPUTATION

JULY 2022

•

London

This salon explored possible trajectories for Antikythera’s program of reorienting planetary computation with researchers and makers.

EVENTS

salons

lectures

exhibitions

The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology

MAY–NOV 2025

•

Venice

The exhibition, staged across two floors of the newly restored Venetian palazzo, presents two distinct but intersecting trajectories: The Noocene: Computation and Cosmology from Antikythera to AI, curated by Benjamin Bratton with Nicolay Boyadjiev from Antikythera, & Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet, curated by Nicholas de Monchaux with Ana Miljacki and Calvin Zhong from MIT Architecture.

The Next Earth Symposium

MAY 10, 2025

•

Palazzo Diedo, Venice

The Next Earth staged a dialogue between two pioneering research initiatives: Antikythera’s The Noocene: Computation and Cosmology from Antikythera to AI and MIT Architecture’s Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet. Installed on adjacent floors of Palazzo Diedo Berggruen Arts & Culture during the 19th International Venice Architecture Biennale, the event puts the two concepts in dialogue, raising urgent questions about our shared past, present, and futures and how philosophy and architecture must respond to planetary-scale crises.

Planetary Sapience

OCTOBER 25, 2024

•

MIT Media Lab

Planetary Sapience presented Antikythera’s speculative philosophy of computational technologies and planetary intelligence through a day-long symposium. The event featured short presentations of new work from Antikythera’s forthcoming digital Journal followed by lively discussion on the program’s key topics.

Speculative Philosophy of Planetary Computation

OCTOBER 23, 2024

•

MIT Media Lab

Keynote lecture by Benjamin Bratton, which featured Antikythera’s philosophy of technology and the speculative design work of the think tank. The keynote reviewed the program’s core research themes: planetary computation, synthetic intelligence, recursive simulations, hemispherical stacks, and planetary sapience, and presented glimpses of the content and ideas behind Antikythera’s forthcoming digital journal and book series with MIT Press.

Watch

Planetary Sapience & Planetary Stupidity: a Bildungsroman for the Baby Noosphere

JULY 8, 2024

•

CSM

In this talk, Thomas Moynihan explores Earth’s emergence into self-awareness through human intelligence, tracing the intertwined histories of scientific insight, planetary transformation, and technological folly as preludes to potential planetary sapience.

Watch

COGNITIVE INFRASTRUCTURES

JULY 5 2024

•

London

This salon assembled researchers and thought leaders working across Synthetic Intelligence from Google-Deepmind, Cambridge Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge Centre for Existential Risk, Oxford, Turing Institute, and others spend a day discussing works in progress and with Cognitive Infrastructures London studio participants.

What is Intelligence?

JULY 4, 2024

•

CSM

What is Intelligence? is a lecture by Blaise Agüera y Arcas recorded in July 2024 in London as part of Antikythera’s Cognitive Infrastructures Studio lecture series.

Watch

57 Ideas & Questions about Cognitive Infrastructures

JULY 3, 2024

•

CSM

As AI becomes both more general and more foundational, it shouldn’t be seen as a disembodied virtual brain. It is a real, material force. AI is embedded into the active, decision-making processes of real world systems. As AI becomes infrastructural, infrastructures become intelligent. 

Watch

Recursive Worlds

JULY 2, 2024

•

CSM

Recursive Worlds is a lecture by Sara Walker recorded in July 2024 in London as part of Antikythera’s Cognitive Infrastructures Studio lecture series.

Watch

How to Think Unlike Humans?

JULY 1, 2024

•

CSM

Chen Qiufan provocatively interrogates the anthropocentric biases constraining human cognition, advocating for a radical epistemological recalibration through speculative fiction.

Watch

COGNITIVE INFRASTRUCTURES STUDIO

JUNE – JULY 2024

•

London

As artificial intelligence becomes infrastructural, and as societal infrastructures concurrently become more cognitive, the relation between AI theory and practice needs realignment. Across scales – from world-datafication and data visualization to users and UI, and back again – many of the most interesting problems in AI design are still embryonic.

Read More

HEMISPHERICAL STACKS

MARCH 2024

•

Shanghai

A salon hosted by Antikythera and NYU Shanghai’s Center for AI and Culture convening science fiction writers, philosophers and technologies for a day-long event exchanging ideas and scenarios.

For a General Theory of Simulations

JANUARY 11, 2024

•

USC

So many disciplines deploy simulations, and yet they remain undertheorized. From scientific modeling to VR/AR, from engineering to entertainment, Antikythera is composing a general theory of simulations.

Watch

After Alignment

JUNE 28, 2023

•

CSM Platform Theater

A public lecture at Central St. Martins University of the Arts London reviewed shifts from AGI to artificial generic intelligence, the decentering of personal data, the challenges of AI in science, intelligence as an evolutionary scaffold, the limitations of mainstream AI ethics, and why a planetary model of synthetic intelligence must drive its geopolitical project.

Watch

PLANETARY COMPUTATION STUDIO

FEB – JUN 2023

•

LA / CDMX / Beijing

Antikythera’s inaugurative five-month speculative design Studio ran from February to June 2023, where Studio Researchers from diverse professional backgrounds took part in collaborative design briefs, theory seminars, and technical workshops to create projects contributing to a growing body of research on the program’s themes.

Read More

HEMISPHERICAL STACKS

APRIL 2023

•

Beijing

This salon, co-curated with Berggruen Fellow and science fiction writer Chen Qiufan, assembled leading science fiction writers, philosophers, technologists, and researchers to explore sovereign data, foundational models, chip wars, and astropolitics through the production of rapid scenario fictions.

SYNTHETIC CATALLAXY

APRIL 2023

•

Mexico City

This salon, co-hosted with One Project Foundation, analyzed and developed planetary scale infrastructure, focused on four areas of research related to Synthetic Catallaxy: planning, price, carbon macroeconomics, and UBX (Universal Basic X).

RECURSIVE SIMULATIONS

NOVEMBER 2022

•

Los Angeles

A salon on Recursive Simulations focused on the emergence of simulations as an epistemological technology and the ways these models create worlds in turn.

PLANETARY COMPUTATION

OCTOBER 2022

•

Amsterdam

This salon explored possible trajectories for Antikythera’s program of reorienting planetary computation with researchers and makers.

PLANETARY COMPUTATION

OCTOBER 2022

•

Berlin

This salon explored possible trajectories for Antikythera’s program of reorienting planetary computation with researchers and makers.

PLANETARY COMPUTATION

JULY 2022

•

London

This salon explored possible trajectories for Antikythera’s program of reorienting planetary computation with researchers and makers.