As part of ART2, an International Platform on Contemporary Art held in New York during April, and one of its multifaceted projects, Composing Differences (curated by Virginie Bobin), Glass Bead invites philosopher Reza Negarestani and musician and mathematician Guerino Mazzola for a series of public talks at e-flux.

Glass Bead is an international research platform and journal. Amidst the epistemic panic provoked by the multiscalar crisis that characterises our present, Glass Bead is conceived as a mode of collective navigation within and across regional and often incompatible fields of knowledge.

ART² presents COMPOSING DIFFERENCES a series of events curated by Virginie Bobin that brings together artists, curators, researchers, who are establishing new platforms to experiment with art and knowledge production, which defend the circulation of knowledge and the immaterial value of art as a tool of social change.

April 27, VW Dome Composing Differences Following a weeklong program of workshops, talks and encounters at MoMA PS1, MoMA AV Recording Studios and e-flux, Composing Differences participants and their guests convene at MoMA PS1 for a Sunday Session navigating across various fields of knowledge to review possible methods and address art's relations with pedagogy, activism, representation and commoning.

2017 The first issue of the journal was dedicated to repositioning art in the landscape of reason. This issue is focused on the fabric of reason itself, and to the ways in which it is currently altered by the emergence of artificial intelligence.