Spectral Study for 20 Field Recordings From the sound recordings sent by the Deputies of the Fictive Committee for the Salvation of the Earth through Speculative Fabulation from their places of origin, Felix Römer was asked to compose a soundscape reflecting the sympoietic event. The sole basis of what we are hearing in the given…
Author: Damian Domes
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Jean-Pierre Bekolo
Naked Future Whenever we talk about the future in Africa, it has always been about a gloomy, dystopian future of an Africa that in the year 2000 will collapse under the weight of this or that disease. The last futuristic prediction was that of Bill Gates’ wife, who predicted that with Covid-19, the African streets…
Fabri Blacklock
Privileging Aboriginal Methodologies in Artistic Research Aboriginal Research Methodologies (ARM) have long been deemed by the Eurocentric academy to be inferior and unvalidated forms of research data collection methods. Aboriginal ways of being, knowing, and doing are the essence of cultural maintenance and survival. Artistic practice exemplifies connection to culture through Aboriginal ontologies and epistemologies.…
Szilvia Ruszev
Report during the symposium: WILDERNESS TRANSCENDED POETIC CAPACITY OF WILDLIFE WEBCAMS IN TIME OF ISOLATION Images produced by video surveillance have long been remediated by artists such as Harun Farocki and Walid Raad, conceptualizing them in the context of emerging media. As a networked medium, the live video feed has become the cinematic sensorium of the…
Frank Geßner
‹cinemareinventé› work in progress A SPHERICAL VIDEO ESSAY BY FRANK GESSNER “I’m not a filmmaker. For me, film is the extension of language. I begin with poetry, then visual art, and finally cinema which brings together several different elements of art. Which to say: writing (poetry), the object (visual arts), and the image (film). The…
Rosi Braidotti
THE CRITICAL POSTHUMANITIES This lecture explores the methodological implications of contemporary posthuman scholarship in the Humanities. It defines the posthuman as a convergence phenomenon unfolding at the intersection between post-humanism on the one hand and post-anthropocentrism on the other. The former criticizes the idea of ‘Man’ as the allegedly universal standard-bearer for the human, whereas…
Fee Altmann and Christine Reeh-Peters
Speech to the International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation With Fabulation for Future, we intend to inquire into the contemporary perception that the anthropocentric view of the world is destroying the multi-species habitat of the earth. Decimation of biodiversity through environmental poisoning, deforestation, extensive forest fires, plastic waste, famines, climate catastrophes, etc.…
Kika Nicolela
Keynote during the symposium: The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence*orFEELING WITH THE OTHER My work generally expresses itself into a collection of human beings—often in a situation of social invisibility—inserted into a proposed situation and their resulted actions, reactions, words. Through the presentation of excerpts of a selection of my past…
Marcel Bückner
ENTITY | AN ALGORITHMIC PERFORMANCE Algorithms are everywhere today. They shape everyday life by regulating an ever-growing area of human-centred activities, including access to information and the organisation of education, health and finance. During the last decades more and more decision-making is being passed on to general algorithms. As a 2018 ‘Ethics of Coding’ report…