[rohrpost] KLAS Workshop "AESTHETICS get SYNTHETIC: Knowledge Link Through Art & Science", Potsdam, Max Planck Campus, November 27-28, 2017

[Ingeborg Reichle]

The “AESTHETICS get SYNTHETIC” workshop will take place in the Main
hall of the Max Planck Campus in Potsdam-Golm in the afternoon on
November 27-28, 2017.

This workshop is an opportunity to bring together scholars and
practitioners to jointly discuss and reflect on contents, approaches
and methodologies that draw the link between synthetic biology and
artistic research and how those can synergically interact by mutually
interrogating and reconsidering their methodologies and modes of
operation in an Artist in Residence programme like KLAS. In this
workshop is particularly interested in discussions and
perspectives that explore how different institutions, organizations
and interest groups with relevant expertise and knowledge of research,
innovation and education address contemporary challenges of future
developments in and beyond their respective knowledge silos.

Artistic practices and scientific research – how can they benefit one
from the other?

What is the benefit of art-science collaboration – is it about the
outcome, the process, can we frame or justify its utility or usefulness.
What are the personal experiences in relation to the knowledge /
conceptual / methodological exchange between art and science?
What are the current trends and what are the expectations for the near
future in Synthetic Biology? and in Art?

This workshop is chaired by Prof. Lipowsky (MPIKG) and Prof. Wilmitzer
(MPIMP)
Co-chairs: Caterina Benincasa, Arnau Horta and Rodrigo Perez Garcia

Registration is necessary! https://klas-reg.mpikg.mpg.de/


Monday 27th of November 2017, 16:30 to 20:30

16:30 - Opening

Martina Münch (Minister of MWKF - Brandenburg)

Representative of Groningen (NL)

Detlev Ganten (World Health Summit)

Roger Malina (Arts and Technology, Leonardo)


17:00 - Presentation of the institutes and opening remarks

Reinhard Lipowsky (Theory and Biosystems)

Lothar Willmitzer (Molecular Physiology)

Caterina Benincasa & Rodrigo Perez Garcia (KLAS)


17:30 - Talks and Round Table with KLAS artists and scientists

Tom Robinson (Biomicrofluidic Systems)

Arren Bar-Even (Systems and Synthetic Metabolism)

Otavio Schipper & Sergio Krakowski (schipperkrakowski.com)


Historical scientic background / public spaces for art

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Philosophy and History of Science)

Nathalie Singer (Modern Music and Sound Art)

Arnau Horta (Philosophy and Sound Art)


19:00 - Coffee break


19:30 - Art and science in Germany: approaches and directions

Sabine Adler (ERES Stiftung)

Christoph von Braun (Andrea von Braun Stiftung)

Heike C. Mertens (Schering Stiftung)


20:20 - Fruitful misunderstandings

Jens Hauser (Media Studies and Science Journalism)


Tuesday 28th of November 2017, 16:30 to 20:30

16:30 - Posters / Projects presentation

Various participants (Open-Call)

17:00 - Remarks on interdisciplinarity

Peter Fratzl (Biomaterials)


17:10 - Talks and Round Table with KLAS artist and scientist

Alex de Vries (Molecular Dynamics)

Agnes Meyer-Brandis (ffur.de)


Science, Art, Research and Accessibility

Siegfried Zielinski (Techno-Culture and Media Archaeology)

Ingeborg Reichle (Cross-Disciplinary Strategies)

Volker Stollorz (Science Media Center Germany gGmbH)


18:30 - (Bio)Culture / (Bio)Ethics

Darian Meacham (Ethics and Philosophy) tbc

Maximilian Schich (Arts and technology)


19:00 - Coffee break


19:30 - Empowering integrative approaches and creativity

Antje Tepperwien (Volkswagen Stiftung)


Science development & transdisciplinarity: EC agenda

Adriaan Eeckels (JRC - European Commission)


Stimulating -aesthetic and political- discourse

Ariane Beyn (DAAD - Berliner Künstlerprogramm)


20:00 - Wrap up: SciArt Futures

All participants will take part in this session


Wine, discussion & music performance till 22h

see for more information: https://klas.mpikg.mpg.de/workshop/