Report during the symposium: MEME CULTURE My presentation is about a ‘meme culture’ that took place during Hong Kong’s 2019–2020 protest movement. Ignited by the city government’s attempt to pass a bill to allow extradition to mainland China, protesters mobilized in extraordinary ways. Inspired by a quote from the homegrown action hero Bruce Lee, ‘Water can…
Author: Damian Domes
Jenny Brown
Dani Landau
Report during the symposium: NOVELTY IN SPECIES OF RELATION In my talk, I will present some of my recent moving image events. I will draw on the speculative ‘philosophy of the organism’ devised by Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1957). Whitehead replaces being with becoming,through relational events he terms prehensions. I will make a case that moving image…
Suvam Das
Report during the symposium: THUS SPEAK OTHERS: NATURE, POST-HUMANISM AND BENGALI CINEMA The purpose of this paper is three-fold. First, I will examine the function of nature and the ‘pre-code’ utilization of animals in Bengali Cinema. My focus here will be primarily on specific children’s films produced during the second half of the 20th century. Second,…
Roksana Niewadzisz
Report during the symposium: FOLK TALES AS TERRITORIES FOR POST-HUMAN EXPLORATION Diverse folk tales, passed down across the generations in different languages, tell of seal women, selkies, mermaids, dove girls, she-wolfs, buffalo women, swan women: all zoomorphic or semi-zoomorphic beings, able to remove their animal coats or skins and take on human shape. They are liminal…
Paul Jones
Report during the symposium: RIVER DEE ESTUARY: VISUALISING THE ANTHROPOCENE This talk describes an artist led response to a project based at locations along the River Dee Estuary in North Wales, UK. As a site of special scientific research and a protected area, the estuary is also a material witness to anthropogenic impact. Historically a major…
Anouk Hoogendoorn
Report during the symposium: SINK CINEMA: NEURODIVERSITY & MATERIAL FABULATION This talk will explore material fabulation through neurodiverse experience. Collective storytelling constantly feels the many-at-work even while writing alone. Words get lost and found in a movement of relaying traces. Experience does not start and end with finding the right names and narratives. Therefore, concepts and…
Asli Duru
TENTACULAR GEOGRAPHIES OF TRAUMA AND HEALING: THINKING THROUGH DE-OXYGENATION This project focuses on instances where a lack of oxygen resulted in severe trauma for existing and future-based conceptions of life, death and the co-existence of non-human agencies. From Eric Garner’s last words ‘I can’t breathe’ to Covid-19-related hypoxemia to the epic formations of mucilage due…
Florian Goeschke
Report during the symposium: SONIC FABULATION: RETHINKING CYBERNETICS IN (NON) HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTIVITY Human-machine interactivity in sound and intermedia contexts such as installations and performance art has been examined in detail in recent decades through work on gesture control and audio-haptic feedback. While questions about the conditions of machine interaction and human perception seem to be a…
Raquel Felgueiras
Report during the symposium: 2O21: FORWARD CAN NOT BE BACKWARD Two moons circle the earth. Their presence is noticed by some, but for most people they were not there… Intercepting Orwell’s 1984 and Murakami’s 1Q84, we arrive at 2 o 21. This is the starting point to think the possibilities of deviation in a post-pandemic and…