The blog

Dear readers and co-investigators,

We are beginning the fourth year of the AIME project (at least the ERC version). We are still welcoming contributions and are redesigning the program, which should considerably simplify and accelerate the site navigation.

We will be focusing our work on debriefing the many face to face meetings and, above all, the conclusions to be drawn from the July sessions. We are handling this considerable amount of material slowly, as our team was greatly reduced after the summer.
Obviously, the investigation keeps producing new work. Two recent articles have appeared: one on the systematic nature of the project, the second on the book edited by Kyle McGee on law.
The discussion of the project also continues on the blog, in several research projects, in reading circles, and also through tweets.

A concentrated effort is being made to take advantage of the strengths and weaknesses of the experience from the perspective of design and the digital humanities. Robin de Mourat will continue the case study he has undertaken on AIME through the questionnaires collected in 2014. Some elements are already available. This assessment will be used for similar projects. Currently, a group article is being written which includes all criticisms of the project (and there are many!).

But, the big story of this new year is the preparation of the exhibition which will open at ZKM in Karlsruhe in spring 2016 as part of "Globale," curated by Peter Weibel. In this exhibition, we will once again redesign all the original material, but this time through a fourth medium: we will no longer rely on the philosophical text with all its limitations; nor on the website with its complicated system of contributions; nor the face to face meetings with their heavy documentary machinery and slow debriefings; This time, we will focus on documentary exhibition. A new medium, a new challenge, but also a new chance to extend the investigation.

As you know, this whole investigation has no other function than to prepare us to "face Gaia" ...

The AIME team

[Kindly translated in English by Michael Thomas]

The research has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC Grant ‘IDEAS’ 2010 n° 269567