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IN PROGRESS… | Colloquium with Aisen Caro Chacin and Zahra Mokhtari
IN PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
Research in Art, Science, and Humanities
With Aisen Caro Chacin and Zahra Mokhtari
Venue: online (Zoom)
Thu, 26 May 2026, 8:00 pm CET
Art Laboratory Berlin is delighted to invite you to take part in our next Colloquium session (this time online only!), a discursive format on research in art, science and humanities, conceptualized and curated by Regine Rapp.
The colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present, or future projects by artists and scholars, curators, or editors from the fields of art, science and the humanities. The topics could refer to an art project, a book, text or chapter, a research or exhibition project, a lab experiment, a lecture series, a conference concept, or other.
The presentations and exchange will focus on the work-in-progress. Methodological approaches – theoretical or practical – are also of great interest here. While researching, we often tend to shift between practical inquiry and theoretical research, browsing various disciplines. Following the original meaning of colloquium as “speaking together”, we want to provide a platform for exchange and embrace various kinds of work processes which are often not seen or talked about.
Structure of the sessions: Each session will include two presentations followed by discussions, altogether around 90 min. The colloquium welcomes informal conversations amongst the participants.
Speakers on 26 May 2026 Session
Dr Aisen Caro Chacin, artist and scholar of human informatics | Tethered: End-of-Life AI Opera
Tethered: End-of-Life AI Opera is a performance artwork exploring human dependency on critical care machines and our co-evolution with AI. The work was born from supporting a close friend – experimental pianist Robert Pearson – during his final months with ALS in hospice care. Communicating via eye-tracking technology, Pearson contributed poetry written with his eyes, which became the opera’s libretto. The piece weaves together sound art, AI, and immersive media to ask what it means to live tethered to a machine, and what forms of agency, intimacy, and care remain possible at the frontier of biology and technology.
Dr Zahra Mokhtari, physicist and scholar of motion behaviour | Signals Shape Collective Behaviour. From Ant Trails to Opinion Dynamics
How do groups (ants, cells, or social media users) form coherent movements or sudden opinion shifts without a central leader? In this presentation, Zahra will walk through building an agent-based model to explore this question. Starting from biological inspiration (bacteria and ants leaving chemical trails), she shows how thousands of simulated “walkers” deposit and react to fading signals. The surprising result: a signal’s lifetime flips collective outcomes: From chaotic swarms to stable, organized trails. She then connects this model to opinion dynamics: What if tweets, headlines, or chat messages act as such volatile signals, co-evolving with the people who create and consume them? The focus is on studying “influence” when messages themselves have a life cycle.
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