[spectre] Invitation to the conference "Non-Machines: Playground of Perspectives" at Bauhaus University Weimar
Mindaugas Gapševičius
mi_ga at o-o.lt
Tue Jun 27 13:41:05 CEST 2023
Hello Spectre people!
it is my honor to invite everyone to the conference "Non-Machines:
Playground of Perspectives" at Bauhaus University Weimar on July 21 and
22. The conference aims to prompt a change of perspectives and to
re-explore the relationships between machines and »non-machines«.
Admission is free, so perhaps someone will consider spending summer time
in Thuringia.
Conference website: http://non-machines.eu/
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/789204142712481
Registration:
https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/art-and-design/projekte/conference-non-machines-playground-of-perspectives/conference-registration/
On Friday, 21 July 2023, the conference will open with a keynote speech
by Ursula Damm (Professor for Media Environments) entitled »Non-Machines
Meet Art« on the special features of non-human actors in art. This will
be followed by a session on the aesthetics of the maker culture with
artistic associate Mindaugas Gapševičius, Prof. Dr Verena Kuni from the
Goethe University Frankfurt and media theorist Dr Yvonne Volkart from
the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland.
On the second conference day, Prof. Dr. Kristupas Sabolius from Vilnius
University will give a keynote lecture on the »Technics of
Compossibility«. Other topics addressed in the countless lectures will
range from the do-it-yourself (DIY) and do-it-with-others (DIWO)
aesthetics to big data in art and new ideas for multi-species connections.
The conference programme will be complemented with workshops,
performances, an exhibition and a film programme. Here, the highlights
will include a workshop with the clown David Tann and performances by a
number of sound artists from Taiwan. The speakers are not only from
other European countries, Lithuania, Greece, Cyprus, the UK and Spain.
Important impetus will also come from America, Colombia and Japan.
The framework for this conference was developed by the Professorship for
Media Environments (Prof. Ursula Damm) with the support of the
Professorship for Urban Studies and Social Research (Prof. Dr. Frank
Eckardt). The conference is being organised by Institutio Media in
collaboration with the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as part of the Action
Toolkit of Care of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology
(COST).
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Mindaugas Gapsevicius
Artistic Associate
Media Environments
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Faculty of Art and Design
Marienstrasse 5
99423 Weimar
phone +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 38 71
mobile +49 (0) 179 / 546 22 60
fax +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 38 06
e-mail: mindaugas.gapsevicius at uni-weimar.de
https://www.uni-weimar.de/gmu
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