BAY AREA, CA — Transformations of the Human (ToftH) School presents a new opportunity. Insofar as fields like AI, biogeochemistry, robotics disrupts the conceptual presuppositions we live by and creates new ones –– concepts of the human, of nature, of machines, of truth, of living together, etc. ––, it has now become possible to practice technology in terms of philosophy.
We are honored to announce the successful selection of applicants for our inaugural cohort: Natasha Beranek, Kristajana St. Clair, Johan Gerdin, Anna (Shults) Held, Isaac Levine, Pierce Myers, Hector Ouilet, Martin Rauchbauer, Philip Schauss, Hannah Scott, Joal Stein, Ben Tear, Sila Ulug, and Xilin Zhou.These fourteen participants were selected from an impressive, highly qualified pool of 170 applicants and represent a cross section of various backgrounds and experience spanning art, philosophy and technology. Students are scheduled to begin in person learning December 1, 2021 in our new building in Southwest Berkeley.
ToftH School offers a seven month one-of-a-kind experimental curriculum and a $40,000 stipend for each student to contemplate the intersection of philosophy, art, and technology. Students will learn how to identify the ways in which technology disrupts the 19th-century ideas and institutions that organize how we live; how to invent concepts that bring new, technically enabled realities into view; and how to build technologies that, like works of art, do not only disrupt old, but also provide new concepts and philosophies, that change how we can live.
For more information on the ToftH School, please contact Robert Fraser via info@tofthschool.org.
