[spectre] Re: Lecture: I. Reichle: When Life Becomes Art, KHM, 20.07., 19h

[// nina / samuel]

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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:56 AM, // nina / samuel <nina.samuel at gmail.com>wrote:

> When Life Becomes Art: Molecular Biology and the Arts
>
> Evening Lecture by Dr. Ingeborg Reichle
> (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
>
> Tues. 20 July 2010 19:00 hrs.
> at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), Aula, Filzengraben 2, 50676
> Köln
>
> By contrasting contemporary art with recent scientific developments, it is
> possible to demonstrate that art today not only serves to comment on
> science, but also represents a form of research and knowledge production
> in its own right, though one belonging to a radically different
> epistemological tradition. Moving beyond the postulated dichotomy of the
> “objective” sciences and the “subjective” arts, contemporary art shows us
> that art is no longer limited to the production of beautiful artefacts,
> but has established its role as a legitimate form of knowledge production
> in its own right. Today the engagement of art with science ranges from
> artists’ iconological handling of scientific imaging to research projects
> executed as artistic endeavours by artists working in the laboratory. In
> the last two decades we have seen a number of artists leave the
> traditional artistic playground to work instead in scientific contexts
> such as the laboratories of molecular biologists. Such artistic
> interventions in genetics and biological forms have made possible new
> means of artistic expression and art forms, like ‘Transgenic Art’ and
> ‘Bio-Art’. These new art forms differ dramatically from more traditional
> artistic approaches that explore the natural and additionally have
> developed new methodologies. More radically these new art forms have
> crossed the boundaries between the artificial and the natural, provoking a
> different understanding of ‘nature’.
>
> Dr. Ingeborg Reichle is an art historian and theorist at the
> Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany. From 1998
> till 2005 she was active at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. She has
> done interdisciplinary studies in London and Hamburg and holds an MA in
> Art History from the University of Hamburg and a PhD at the Art History
> Department at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. Her doctoral
> dissertation, dealing with Art and Biotechnology in the Age of
> Technoscience, was published (Springer 2005, in German) 2009 at Springer
> in English: “Art in the Age of Technoscience. Genetic Engineering,
> Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art.“ From 1998 to 2003, she
> lectured on gender studies and new media art at the Art History Department
> at the Humboldt-University and was involved in the practical application
> of electronics in the deployment of computers and new media in art
> historical works like PROMETHEUS and she was developing relevant internet
> resources. Since 2005 she is active as project leader of the
> interdisciplinary research group “Bildkulturen” at the Berlin-Brandenburg
> Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin and lectures at the Hermann
> von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at the Humboldt-University in
> Berlin.
>
> The evening lecture is part of the International Summer School 2010
> “Living Matter. Art & Research & Science Studies in Biological
> Laboratories” (KHM Cologne in cooperation with FU Berlin,
> www.fu-berlin.de/embodiedinformation) and funded by the Federal Ministry
> of Education and Research (BMBF)
>
>
>
> Kathrin Friedrich
> Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
> Peter-Welter-Platz 2
> D-50676 Köln
>
> Tel.: 0221/20189-313
> kfriedrich at khm.de
> www.khm.de
>
>
>
>


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