Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group (AIAARG)

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The 30th AIAAR Meeting x DOMMUNE
“Natural Virus / Conceptual Virus”

    • There should be a lot of cross-reference points between protection against the transmission of ferocious pathogenic viruses and defense against the crimes of violent computer viruses, but today's theme goes even further. Virology has discovered in this century that there is a vastly rich natural virus world on earth with a huge variety and quantity of viruses other than the so-called pathogenic viruses. If this is the case, we would like to create a diverse and fertile conceptual virus world in virtual space other than so-called criminal viruses. This conceptual virus is our coined word intended for electromagnetic artificial viruses in general. Just as natural viruses are just between inanimate objects and living organisms, conceptual viruses are postulated to be between non-life and artificial life, between non-cell and artificial cell, between unconsciousness and artificial consciousness, and between unintelligence and artificial intelligence. If so, wouldn't it mean that the existence of a conceptual viral world indispensable to the emergence of true artificial life, artificial cells, artificial consciousness, and artificial intelligence?
      For the first time in this theme, we have invited Tomohiro Mochizuki, a virus hunter of hydrothermal archaea and researcher on the relationship between viruses and the origin of life, and Takaaki Mizuno, author of “The Mystery of Computer Viruses” and software developer, to join us online. This discussion will be pandemicized from DOMMUNE without audience, while reading the book “The Nature of Viruses and the Origin of Life” (1950), written by Hideo Moriyama, a pioneer virus researcher who was the grandfather of Hideki Nakazawa (the representative of AIAARG).

      * On April 30, 2020 at 9:00 p.m., while a state of emergency has been declared due to a new type of coronavirus, the first fully only online version of the 30th AIAAR Meeting will be available in collaboration with DOMMUNE. The meeting ends at 24:00 : May 1, 2020 is the first anniversary of the Reiwa era and the fourth anniversary of the establishment of the “Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group.”
      https://www.dommune.com/streamings/2020/043002/
      https://twitter.com/DOMMUNE/status/1255454565136240642

Outline

  • [Title]

    • The 30th AIAAR Meeting x DOMMUNE “Natural Virus / Conceptual Virus”

  • [Date]

    • April 30 (Thu), 2020. 21:00-24:00

  • [Venue]

  • [Presenter]

    • Tomohiro Mochizuki (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor of ELSI, Tokyo Tech.)
      Takaaki Mizuno (Technical Investor. / Software Developer. / Technical Writer.)
      Hideki Nakazawa + Mika Kusakari (Representative + Planner/Producer of AIAARG.)
      Naohiro Ukawa (DOMMUNE: Voice Appearance.)
      * Online general discussion will follow the lectures.

  • [Admission]

    • Free.
      * Please donate at the super-chat of the Youtube as for webcasting without spectators.

  • [Organizer]

    • Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group (AIAARG)
    • DOMMUNE

Lecture

  • “Four Billion Years of Life's Origin from a Hot Water Virus at 100 C”
    Tomohiro Mochizuki (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor of ELSI, Tokyo Tech.)

    • The word “virus” has a negative connotation, but the earth is riddled with viruses and most of which are “microbe-infecting viruses.”I myself am a virus hunter looking for virus samples in hot springs and deep sea from around the world in search of viruses that infect microorganisms called “archaea” that live in boiling hot water. Many of these hydrothermal archaea viruses are very artistic, such as lemon, bottle, and spring forms, which the average virologist would never have thought of, showing us the amazing diversity of viruses. Viruses have existed since the beginning of life on Earth about 4 billion years ago, and I will present the diversity of viruses and their relationship to the evolution of primitive life.
    • * Tomohiro Mochizuki is an archaeal virus hunter in hydrothermal systems, studying the relationship between viruses and the origin of life. He started from his dream of studying microorganisms on Mars and is currently specially appointed assistant professor and lab manager at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Tokyo Institute of Technology. (* by AIAARG)
      http://www.elsi.jp/ja-JP/members/researchers/tmochizuki

  • “Mystery of Computer Viruses: Comparing Computer Viruses to Viruses in Nature”
    Takaaki Mizuno (Technical Investor. / Software Developer. / Technical Writer.)

    • Software that adversely affects computers is called malware, some of which has been named computer “viruses” and is more commonly known by that name due to its clarity. However, they are interesting because they actually have many similarities to viruses in nature. In this report, I would like to explore the mechanisms and survival strategies of computer viruses by looking at their similarities and differences.
    • * Takaaki Mizuno is a Baidu Annual Award winner, and travels around Southeast Asia as a technical investor, software developer, and technical writer. Majored in molecular biology at the University of Tokyo. Published dozens of books including “The Mystery of Computer Viruses.”(* by AIAARG)
      http://takaaki.info/about/

  • “The Concept of the Conceptual Virus”
    Hideki Nakazawa + Mika Kusakari (Representative + Planner/Producer of AIAARG.)

    • Is it possible to make electromagnetic artificial life appear in electromagnetic virtual space in the same way that once life appeared in the material space of the primitive earth? Even before the corona plague, we had thought that if viruses in the natural world, which are life but not living organisms, hold the key to the birth of life, then computer virus research should be possible from such a perspective. However, computer viruses are legally defined as doing bad things. So we need a word that transcends good and evil from a human perspective, and that's the concept of the conceptual virus, which we coined. The lecture will also cover the works of Hideo Moriyama, Nakazawa's grandfather, a pioneering researcher who once argued for the origin of life in terms of viruses, as well as the “ROM-RAM Theory of Life and Death,”a problematic system of art transmission proposed by Nakazawa.
    • * Artists Hideki Nakazawa and Mika Kusakari founded the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group in 2016 with a total of 29 co-founders, and this is the 30th meeting of the research group, while holding exhibitions.
      https://www.aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/
      http://www.mika-kusakari.com/?cid=6