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SUMMARY:Navigating the Sky
DESCRIPTION:Dietmar Offenhuber (Northeastern University) and Azra Akšamija
  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))\n\nA short meditation in tw
 o parts about how ideas and knowledge shape and order what we find in the 
 sky. \n\nManu-o-Kū\n\nThe first part is based on a narration by Polynesian
  navigator Nainoa Thompson who describes how stars, clouds, waves, and liv
 ing beings form an interconnected system of orientation that can be read, 
 felt, heard, and smelled. This celestial knowledge is not a product of the
  human mind alone but shared with animals such as the seabird Manu-o-Kū, w
 hich indicates the proximity of land. Thompson’s Hawaiian voyaging canoe p
 layed a central role in the revival of traditional Polynesian non-instrume
 ntal navigation techniques in the 1970s. The close entanglement of celesti
 al knowledge and cultural ideas is also reflected in the visuals generated
  by an artificial neural network that has been trained on millions of imag
 es representing contemporary visual culture.\n\nSIMBAD\n\nThe second part 
 traces how scientific knowledge is shaped by instruments and human culture
 . SIMBAD, alluding to another mythical seafarer, is the name of an astrono
 mical database maintained by the Université de Strasbourg. It maps every c
 elestial object described in scientific literature to its corresponding pl
 ace in the sky. Looking at the composite image of all astronomical referen
 ces, one is struck by distinct geometrical patterns – rectangles, circles,
  and other complex shapes appear in the map of all known stars and galaxie
 s, revealing the imprints of instruments, publication formats, and changin
 g cultural interests. Sounds and visuals are generated from 28 million bib
 liographic references extracted from the database.\n\nTag: Art of HPC\n\nR
 ecording: Not Livestreamed, Not Recorded\n\nRegistration Category: Technic
 al Program Reg Pass, Workshop Reg Pass, Tutorial Reg Pass, Exhibits Reg Pa
 ss\n\n
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