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<p><font size=2><font
face=Verdana><em><font size=1></font></em><strong>OPEN CALL - Nonhuman
subjectivities<br><br><br></strong></font></font><font size=2><font
face=Verdana><img border=0
src="cid:3312an$IN858014144122670@Margarita-PC"><br><br><br></font><font
face=Verdana>Four to five hundred years ago Copernicus and Galileo 'removed' the
Earth (and humanity) from the centre of the universe. In Western Philiosophy
this coincides with the 'epistemological turn' away from cosmology. Western
civilization through the enlightenment and into the modern age has continued to
place the human experience at the center of existence. Postmodernism, for
example, has reveled in human subjectivity, almost to the point of denying all
else.<br><br><font face=Verdana><strong>In response to recent cultural and
scientific developments Art Laboratory Berlin is initiating an open
call</strong> for art works, texts and cooperative works with artists, scholars
and scientists on the general theme of <strong>non-human
subjectivities.<br><br></strong></font><font face=Verdana>Recent philosophical works by
i.a. Graham Harman, Quentin Meillasoux, Isabelle Stengers and John Gray have questioned the
solely human role of subjectivity that has formed the core of 'humanism' over
the past five centuries.<br><br></font><strong><font face=Verdana>We suggest a
new multiplicity of viewpoints and an exploration of non-human intelligence,
agency and subjectivity, that make up our planet (and
beyond).<br><br></font></strong><font face=Verdana>Possible topics could
include</font></font><font face=Verdana></font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face=Verdana><em>Perspectives under threat</em> - non-human
viewpoints during the great species die off.</font>
<li><font face=Verdana><em>Bacterial viewpoints</em> - how microbes
communicate, interact and experience the world.</font>
<li><font face=Verdana><em>Non-human perspectives</em> - intelligence and
agency in animals, plants, bacteria. </font>
<li><font face=Verdana>Re-definition of intelligence, agency and sentience in
ways that are not anthropomorphic.</font>
<li><font face=Verdana>What do some of these perspectives make of<em> Homo
sapiens</em>? e.g.- 90% of the cells in our body do not have human DNA -we are
a mere host, a topography, for billions of bacteria and fungi. </font>
<li><font face=Verdana>How about agency (and even intelligence) beyond life -
virii or crystals for instance.</font>
<li><font face=Verdana>Are complex data systems, algorithms, artificial
intelligence beginning to have points of view, and forms of agency that are
beyond human comprehension?</font></li></ul>
<p><font face=Verdana><font size=1><strong><font size=2><br>Art Laboratory
Berlin is seeking submissions and proposals predominantly for exhibitions,
performances and workshops, but is also interested in cooperation with scholars
and scientists for the production of a series of lectures, texts and a
symposium<br><br></font></strong><font face=Verdana><strong><font size=2>The
deadline for entries is 15 December, 2014.<br></font></strong><font
size=2>Chosen proposals will form part of our 2016-17
programme<br><br></font></font><font face=Verdana><strong><font size=2>Please
submit your proposal by email to:
<em>nonhumanisms(at)artlaboratory-berlin.org</em><br></font></strong><font
size=2><br>The
application should include a proposal (not longer than 5 pages), a CV and work
portfolio (not longer than 10 pages). We ask that you keep the size of attachments altogether under 5MB. For video or
other large files we encourage the use of links. In rare exceptions proposals
may be accepted by post, i</font><em><font size=2>f a request is first sent by
email. </font></em><font size=2>Please title the subject line: POST
RQST.<br><br>link: <a
href="http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-open-call-nonhumanisms.htm">http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-open-call-nonhumanisms.htm</a><br><font size=1><br><br><br><br>Photo credit: Differential intake of
coloured substances by slime mould </font><em><font size=1>Physarum
polycephalum</font></em><font size=1> in laboratory implementation of
Kolmogorov-Uspenskii machine. Courtesy of Andrew Adamatzky. Adamatzky A.
"Physarum Machines" (World Scientific, 2010). </font></font><br></font><br></font> </font></font><em><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><br></font></em><font size=2><font face=Verdana><img border=0
src="cid:3312an$IN818014144122671@Margarita-PC"><br><br><font
size=1>Regine Rapp, Christian de
Lutz<br></font></font></font><font size=1
face=Verdana>Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin<br> </font><font size=1
face=Verdana ><a
href="http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.orginfo@artlaboratory-berlin.org"><font
color=#000000>www.artlaboratory-berlin.org</font></font><font size=1
face=Verdana ><br></font><a
href="mailto:info@artlaboratory-berlin.org"><font size=1
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