Report during the symposium: SYNTHETIC SOUND My presentation is about the possible sonifications of Earth’s data, from the stratosphere to Earth’s interior and the in-between layers and spaces. I am proposing a sound experience that sonifies the different forces of nature, hereby enabling unforeseen and unusual new connections that we can observe in the wake of…
Author: Damian Domes
Josh Wagner
Report during the symposium: RE-MONSTERING NATURE: TERATOLOGY AS ECO-PROPHETICS Teratological literature has long reenforced the business of othering by privileging certain classifications, populations and subjectivities, while relegating others to the status of ‘monstrous’. Monstrous traits are to be feared, avoided, exploited or destroyed, and their designations tend to radiate away from anthropocentrism. In the 21st century,…
Kristín Mjöll Bjarnadóttir Johnsen
Report during the symposium: PROLOGUE FOR CHANGE THROUGH IMPROV ACTING AND LARPING Anthropocentrism and technological progression are the cornerstones of my current art research. In August 2021, I hosted a workshop where the partcipants reflected upon and challenged these two fundamentals. The workshop was a hybrid of Live Action Role Play (LARP) and improvised theatre, set…
Belén Cerezo
Report during the symposium: FILMING-WITH CLARICE LISPECTOR Is it possible to film as if caressing? How would it be ‘to film with the body’? How would it be to film the life-world as Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector writes? These were the initial questions of my artistic research that brings into the visual arts some characteristics of…
Stefan Winter
How Will We Live Together? Artistic Research in the Design of City Spaces In the artistic avantgarde of post-war Paris, Ivan Chtcheglov introduced the ‘dérive’, drifting through the body of the city, as a procedure of artistic research to take note of the ‘atmospheres’ in the city and their changes and fluctuations. The Lettrists and…
Jyoti Mistry
Gusztáv Hámos and Katja Pratschke
Keynote during the symposium: POLIS, POLITICS, POLICE Gusztáv Hámos and Katja Pratschke’s artistic research project SAMPLE CITIES consists of 28 city descriptions. In a manner similar to Italo Calvino in his novel Invisible Cities (1972) they describe imaginary cities that have been documented with photographs in real urban areas. The source material is sequential photo…
Prudence Gibson
Keynote during the symposium: Tipping the Fictive Point. Fabulation is an eco-political act, a way to create new imaginative futures. Stories, films and artworks can mediate difficult social and environmental issues. There is something eerie and disturbing at the point where non-fiction and fiction collide. This point can tip our understandings into the past, the present…
Angelica Böhm
Transmedia Storytelling for Future Transmedia Storytelling: Camilla Plastic Ocean Plan (CPOP) was founded in 2015 at Film University Babelsberg. More than 400 students, alumni and professionals from different parts of the world have become involved. Angelica Boehm started the project because the worldwide media present often environmental problems in a way that makes us feel…
Marie-Luise Angerer
Morphic Figurations In the summer of 2019, James Lovelock, who formulated the Gaia hypothesis, celebrated his 100th birthday. With his theory that Earth (Greek: Gaia) is a living being, he prompted a shift in thinking the far-reaching implications of which are only now becoming apparent. Alarming levels of plastic in the environment, unprecedented numbers of…