FRANCE | 73 minutes | 2015

Are humans now mice in a global lab? Looking at data-centre architecture, the collective intelligence of kittens, high-frequency trading, forest survival and the engineering of transhuman rats, World Brain goes down the Internet rabbit hole, all the way to dreams of collective intelligence and a hypothetical global brain. Taking the form of a film that oscillates between documentary, fiction and technical manual, and an accompanying website that unfolds and explodes like the fragments of a floor map (arte.tv/worldbrain), World Brain invites you on a journey into the world of data, and questions the role of humans within increasingly automated systems. How will we reinvent the human being in a dehumanizing environment? And so we follow the explorations of a group of researchers trying to survive in the forest equipped only with Wikipedia. In contrast to the usual dream of disconnecting, they leave everything behind except connection.

Programs

Monday October 12, 2015

Program #151
21:00
Pavillon Judith-Jasmin annexe (Salle Jean-Claude Lauzon)

Friday October 16, 2015

Program #265
19:00
Cinémathèque - Salle Fernand Seguin

Stéphane DEGOUTIN

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Gwenola WAGON

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