​Join us for an evening with River Computer, an RND studio for the advancement of eco-technical interfaces.

​This salon is a gathering for those curious about emerging / ancestral theory and practices for computing with living systems. What might it mean to design technical systems that think with the world rather than about it?

​Amidst the proliferation of twins and advocates that promise to speak on behalf of the more-than-human, we are in a collapse of the diversity of intelligences and computation which populate our planet.

​Woven through lore, prototyping, and speculative horizons we introduce River Computer, and probe how technology and governance can be leveraged not to replace the more-than-human, but to actually interact with it.

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This invitation is part presentation, part demo, and part speculation to explore computation across

• ​fast and slow systems

• ​wet and dry architectures

• ​organic and synthetic forms

​Lore - Prototyping - Speculations

​We'll break the evening down into 3 parts... ~ 20 min each, with time for discussion / breakouts throughout and at the end.

​Lore · Discovering Computation Without Computers
Rivers compute through flow but can we read their output? How can we interface with latent planetary information processing systems? We'll offer some context...

​Prototype · Wind Trust and Living Covenants
We’ll present early experiments from River Computer: Wind Trust, a digital organism whose superuser is the atmosphere, and Living Covenants, ecological agreements that anchor trust and reciprocity in autonomous planetary contracts.

​Horizons · There's a lot on it. We'll introduce new collaborations with several grassroots and indigenous nations, and outline the shape of an oracle systems built on the first principles of River Computer.

​If some of this sounds absurd then the point is getting across. It should be fun.

We'll start with an open happy hour at 6:30pm and start the event at 7:30ish....

No dress code :0