Future Ideations Camp Vol. 7 Keynote Lectures 1–3: Theo Triantafyllidis, Elena Knox, lololol

Dates: Wed Oct 1, Thu Oct 2, Sat Oct 4, 2025 / 7:30 – 9:00pm (doors open: 7:15pm)
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Atelier West, Online Streaming (CCBT YouTube channel)
Capacity: 40 (Reservation required / Available on a first come, first served basis)
Admission: Free

*The lectures will be livestreamed and available to watch on the official CCBT YouTube channel (no registration required).
CCBT YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@civiccreativebasetokyoccbt3744

Accessibility support: Simultaneous Japanese-English interpretation, Sign language interpretation (English–JSL, only available in person at the venue), Text-based communication (UD Talk)
*Due to the need to arrange for sign language interpreters, if you require interpretation, please register by Tuesday, Sep, 23rd.

If you have other accessibility requests or special requirements, please contact us as below.
Inquiry: event@autumnmeteorite.jp

【Keynote Lecture 1】
Theo Triantafyllidis: Feral Systems, an Artist Talk by Theo Triantafyllidis
Date: Wed Oct 1, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Lecturer (online): Theo Triantafyllidis (artist)
*Registration required
**Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation and text-based communication (UD Talk)will be provided.
***Sign language interpretation (English –JSL, only available in person at the venue)

Theo Triantafyllidis builds performative systems that resist legibility. They stutter, overflow, and double back on themselves. In this artist talk, he presents a constellation of recent works – "Feral Metaverse", "Anti-Gone", "BugSim (Pheromone Spa)" – alongside in-progress experiments and behind-the-screens scaffolding, offering a look into a practice where simulation is treated as stage rather than spectacle.
These are moody, procedural worlds where engines stall, avatars drift off-script, and physics develop personalities. Triantafyllidis doesn’t design clean interactions, he cultivates volatile arrangements. Creatures, players, networks, and algorithms locked in uncertain liveness. This is not user-centered design. It’s the poetics of mutual misrecognition.
What emerges is a rehearsal space for unstable ontologies: somewhere between a LAN party, a fever dream, and a bad dress run of the future. A world where technology isn’t optimized, but embodied: intimate, leaky, semi-coherent, occasionally exquisite.

Theo Triantafyllidis

【Keynote Lecture 2】
Elena Knox: The Techne, the Daimon, and the Unknown Superfactor!
Date: Thu Oct 2, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Lecturer (online): Elena Knox (artist, curator, researcher)
*Registration required
**Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation and text-based communication (UD Talk)will be provided.
***Sign language interpretation (English –JSL, only available in person at the venue)

Why do humans use arts, crafts, and technical skill to create copies of ourselves? In this talk, I will space-time travel through my own and other humans’ artworks that wrestle with this method of shamanic mirroring, suggesting that it arises from an underlying, species-level drive to artificially contextualize humankind’s position in the whole universe. This is me. This is us. This is my echo. Are we alone? Can you see, or hear, or smell, or feel, or know us? Why is the ‘stage’ for my life so incomprehensibly huge, and my life so distressingly short? Is there such a thing as control? Am I accidental? Am I too stupid to understand? Am I the same, or different? Do you care about me, and my survival? Is there, indeed, any other ‘you’ … out there or all around, somewhere, far from Earth?

As pioneers of technology develop evermore intricate tools for humanity to use — and as AI begins to apply reduplicated knowledge to prototypical acts of creation — we continue to seek both stabilizing reflections of ourselves and explanations for uncharted phenomena. Whether these objectives are compatible is unproven.
Art as shamanism mediates between them.

Elena Knox

【Keynote Lecture 3】
lololol: Choreography of Collapse
Date: Sat Oct 4, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Lecturer (online): lololol (artist collective)
*Registration required
**Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation and text-based communication (UD Talk)will be provided.
***Sign language interpretation (English –JSL, only available in person at the venue)

Choreography of Collapse explores how the body learns not just to live with machines, but to live through them.
The first part introduces "3C Xing Yi Quan," a new form of martial arts that seeks to internalize the logic of contemporary devices—computers, communications, and consumer electronics. Rooted in the tradition of internal mobilization, this practice cultivates equilibrium of mind and body in the digital age. It does not aim to passively use or actively resist technology, but to mirror, absorb, and re-pattern its cues.
The second part, "Fractal Memory," listens to the forgotten acoustics of broken hard drives—those discarded containments of memory. Through their fractured rhythms and chanting circuits, a new soundscape emerges: a choreography of breakdown, where malfunction becomes the message, and data collapse gives rise to an aesthetics of survival.
Together, these two parts offer a meditation on coexistence and becoming—where systems fail, but new forms of attunement, adaptation, and embodiment begin to stir. These works continues the artist’s long-term engagement with natural, industrial, and electronic ambiances— to trace a new cosmic ontology in contemporary life.

lololol

▼Registration
Please register by one of the following methods.
Due to the need to arrange for sign language interpreters, if you require interpretation, please register by Tue Sep 23.
If you have other accessibility requests or special requirements, please contact us at the email address below.

1) Online form
Please click the link below and fill in the registration form (external website).
https://futureideationscamp7keynote.peatix.com

2) Email
Please email the address below with your information. Please be sure to write “Camp Vol. 7 Keynote Lectures registration” in the email subject line.

Email: event@autumnmeteorite.jp
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