Paul Guzzardo

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Guest lecture: PAUL GUZZARDO, Player on the Quantum stage

Paul Guzzardo is a lawyer, media activist, and artist-designer . He is the innovator of a discipline called
Recursive Urbanism which examines the intersection of smart machines (code + things) and the City
Street. His work explores the relationship between digital technology and urban environments. Through
his storyboards, Guzzardo sketches the digitization of the human experience, addressing the dizzying
dynamic between machines and us. Guzzardo’s creative praxis includes academic publications, a 1990’s
internet nightclub, outdoor projections, a street-front media lab, remix concerts, gallery installations,
documentary films, theatrical productions, and litigation.
Player on the Quantum Stage is the last in a trilogy that began in 2015. All three parts were triggered by
an urban design protocol developed between 1996 and 2016 in St. Louis, Missouri. Paul and his
colleague Lorens Holm labeled the protocol Recursive Urbanism (RU). Recursive Urbanism took a
journalistic-witness stance. Each iteration offered an insider's look at the explosion of social media and
the rise of an Artificial Intelligence Project. Desperate for a path forward in the face of the exponential
scalability of computational power, each RU iteration exposed how elites made it difficult for creative
communities to adapt, innovate, and redefine their practices in an advancing AI landscape.

Period	20 Nov 2024
Visiting from	Independent (Argentina)
Degree of Recognition	Local