[rohrpost] Einladung: Noosphere Reflection Series - Flusserian Philosophical Flux - Weds 8th May 19:00

[Annie Goh]

*Noosphere Reflection Series *

*(3^rd Month of Performance Art Berlin)*

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*Part 1 :Ex-perience*

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*Flusserian Philosophical Flux by MetafluxLab*

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Date: Wednesday, May 8^th 2013

Time: 19:00 -- 22:00

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*Artists: Claudia Becker and Rodrigo Maltez Novaes (MetafluxLab)*

*Curator: Teena Lange*

SAVVY Contemporary I Richardstraße 43/44 I 12055 Berlin-Neukölln

Photo: Noospere Part 0: The Unknown, Performative Installation by dolanbay.

For the first Noosphere Reflection, the artists and philosophers Claudia 
Becker and Rodrigo Maltez Novaes from the MetafluxLab are invited to 
experiment with new forms of knowledge production based on their own 
developed methodology: The Flusserian Philosophical Flux (FPF). The FPF 
is a dialogic exploration of contemporary philosophical concepts 
inspired by the work of Vilém Flusser. For the Noosphere Reflections 
they will connect the ideas and thoughts by Wladimir Iwanowitsch 
Wernadski on the development of the Noosphere with Vilém Flusser's 
utopian vision of a telematic society.

MetafluxLab will develop a FPF based on Flusser's essay "Ex-perience" 
published in /Freedom of the Migrant/, to explore the relations and 
connections between different thinking spaces and their physical 
manifestations. Within the philosophical happening »Ex-perience« 
MetafluxLab will investigate the conditions and relations of thinking, 
decisions and actions for performative processes:

/"Let us imagine that our central nervous system were to extend around 
the globe like a net. Let us further imagine that it constitutes 
something like a net. What I'm suggesting is not a science fiction but 
the model on which the telematic society now being built is based. [...] 
Such a neurosphere spanning the globe would function to compute into 
experience all stimuli incessantly streaming in from all directions and 
to transform these experiences into decisions and actions" (V.F.)/

(/the essay can be downloaded here: 
/https://anonfiles.com/file/f039743741c0c7b91e96934cf09c1d5c/) /

By interacting with the participants and the texts MetafluxLab will 
bring the materiality of thinking and the performativity of the thinking 
act into light to experience the link between noosphere - neurosphere - 
biosphere - atmosphere.

*www.metafluxlab.org*

*Claudia Becker*is a german artist and philosopher. In her work she 
focus on the emergence of the technical images and their effect on 
thinking and being. Together with Rodrigo Maltez Novaes she created the 
Metafluxlab, which focuses on the de-automation of thinking and the 
development of alternative methods of knowledge production and transfer 
in an experimental way. Furthermore she was junior researcher at the 
Institute for visual Media at the Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe 
(ZKM) works as scientific curator for the Vilém Flusser Archive at the 
Berlin University of the Arts.

*Rodrigo Maltez Novaes*is a Brazilian/British visual artist, Doctoral 
candidate at the European Graduate School (EGS) in Saas-Fee and Research 
Fellow at the Vilém Flusser Archive at Universität der Künste Berlin. 
Affiliated to the Brazilian National Counsel of Technological and 
Scientific Development (CNPQ) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for 
Cultural Semiotics and Media (CISC) in São Paulo, Rodrigo is the 
translator and editor of the first English edition of Vampyroteuthis 
infernalis, by Vilém Flusser, published by Atropos Press, New York, 
2011. With a BA from the University of Gloucestershire and an MA from 
the University of the Arts London, his main areas of activity are 
painting, philosophy, media and communication. He currently lives and 
works in Berlin.

*Invited Guests*

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*Andrew Fisher *is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, 
University of London. Currently he is working as a visiting researcher 
in the Kulturwissenschaft Institute at the Humboldt University, Berlin. 
Andrew is one of the founding editors of Philosophy of Photography, a 
peer reviewed journal devoted to the scholarly understanding of 
photography. His publications have focused on the history and theory of 
photography, photography and literature, photography in post-World War 
II art practices, phenomenological aesthetics and the phenomenological 
tradition more generally.

*Annie Goh*is an sound artist and researcher. Her works include 
installations, compositions and performances. In 2010 she completed her 
M.A. in Sound Studies at UdK Berlin with the topic of "Sonic Fiction". 
Presently, she is doing research on generative art with Alberto de Campo 
and works as an assistant at the Villém-Flusser-Archive.

*Vanessa Ramos Velasquez*is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher 
from Brazil and the United States where she was a Fulbright scholar. She 
navigates through performance art, installation, videoart and 
experimental film. In 2011 she received the Vilém Flusser Theory Award 
Distinction at transmediale with Digital Anthropophagy and the 
Anthropophagic Re-Manifesto for the Digital Age.


The Noosphere Reflection Series is part of the

*3^rd Month of Performance Art Berlin*.

www.mpa-b.org <http://www.mpa-b.org/>

Director of Performance Programming at SAVVY Contemporary: Jaime Schwartz

Artistic Director: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Press contact: contact at savvy-contemporary.com Further Information: 
www.savvy-contemporary.com

-- 
Annie Goh
Assitant | _Vilém_Flusser_Archive
University of the Arts, Berlin

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