[spectre] ZKM/Symposium/Hierarchies of Communication

[Andrea Buddensieg]

ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
2003-06-30


H i e r a r c h i e s  o f  C o m m u n i c a t i o n


Friday – Sunday, July 4 - 6, 2003
ZKM-Media Theatre
Tickets: 1 day – EUR 12/8; 3 days – EUR 30/20

A three-day symposium in English organized by the Future University in
Hakodate (Japan) and ZKM Karlsruhe

Ever since Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver developed the "mathematical
theory of communication”, communication has become a hot potato of
scholarly debate. This has put naturalistic and cultural perspectives on
a collision course. There are more than 100 different definitions of
communication whereby their most hotly disputed component is
"information” – the entity which is presumably exchanged during communication.

Scientists and artists will meet at this inter-disciplinary and
inter-institutional symposium in order to discuss this theme in light of
both systems and cultural theory. For many adherents of systems theory,
communication by and large involves interaction between linked systems,
i.e., a concept which, in principle, can be used on different scales. It
is irrelevant here whether the interaction between molecules can be
called communication. That said, language usage suggests that even
primitive organisms, like bacteria, practice communication. Does
communication take place in the networked structure of linked neurons in
the brain or does communication first take place between creatures that
are equipped with a brain? 

Cultural scientists reject this reduction of the concept of
communication to known structures of interaction. They point to "speech”
and "meaning” as it has historically developed within society. In such
discussions there will always be discrepancies and unanswered questions.
Nevertheless it is the declared intention of the symposium to make a
reconciliatory contribution to the subject of communication.

A book containing the contributions to the symposium can be purchased at
the beginning of the event for EUR 19.00.

Schedule of Events

Friday, July 4, 2003

11:00 a.m. Welcoming remarks

11:30 a.m. L e h a n  R a m s a y: Chasing World Orders

1:00 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m. H a n s  D i e b n e r: Operational Hermeneutics

4:00 p.m. Yoshiaki Mima, Ken-ichi Kimura, Hidekatsu Yanagi: The Thinking
Sketch Project

5:30 p.m. Break

6:00 p.m. I s t v a n  F e k e t e: Systematization Modelling of Communication


Saturday, July 5, 2003

10:15 a.m. Welcoming remarks and review of the Day 1

10:30 a.m. P e t e r  W e i b e l: Hierarchically Organized Systems in
Theory and Practice

11:30 a.m. T o h r u  M o r i y a m a: Misunderstanding Signals and
Creation of Information in Communication

1:00 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m. M a n f r e d  H e n t z: Intra-Organizational Communication
based on Maturana's Autopoietic System Theory

4:00 p.m. N i l s  R ö l l e r: Media Hierarchies

5:30 p.m. Break

6:00 p.m. S h i g e r u  S a k u r a z a w a: How Is Communication of
Material Possible?


Sunday, July 6, 2003

11:00 a.m. Welcoming remarks and review of Day 2

11:15 a.m. T i l m a n  S a c k: Chattheatre - three medias - one vision

12:30 p.m. Break

2:00 p.m. T e t s u o  O n o: Embodied Communication Between Humans and
Robots Emerging from Entrained Gestures 

3:15 p.m. R a f a e l  C a p u r r o: Angeletics - A Message Theory

4:30 p.m. Break

4:45 p.m. M a s a k i  F u j i h a t a: Interface Design and Connectivity

6:00 p.m. Round Table Discussion on inter-cultural communication



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Dr. Andrea Buddensieg 
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E-Mail: buddensieg at zkm.de