Keynote during the symposium: My Experiments in Thinking the Next Possible World Media artist Marie-Eve Levasseur will present some of her recent works addressing the relevance and the emancipatory potential of speculative practices like feminist (science) fiction in her artistic practice. As a method, the artist engages in an act of imagining, for example, benevolent poet…
Author: Damian Domes
Sanja Anđelković
Report during the symposium: Fatberg – A New Hybrid Intelligence Taking Fatberg as a metaphor for a new artificially created intelligence, the work presents an online game of chance in which the only winner is Fatberg itself. By clicking on the “water flush” button, Fatberg feeds on our digital database: by combining wastewater quality data with…
Vanessa Graf
Report during the symposium: HEAD IN THE CLOUD: USING SPECULATIVE FABULATION TO (RE)IMAGINE THE MATERIALITY OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY The talk Head in the Cloudexamines speculative fabulation as a method for challenging the prevalent narrative of immateriality surrounding digital technology. Contrary to the rhetoric of the so-called digital revolution, modern technology is still heavily reliant on industrial-age…
Marie-Andrée Robitaille
Report during the symposium: CIRCLE AS A METHODOLOGY / AN ETHICAL QUEST In her doctoral artistic project Circus as a Practice of Hope, Marie-Andrée Robitaille proposes ‘Circle as a methodology’ as an effort to counter a linear world vision. Can engaging worlds through circularity, literally andmetaphorically, revive a system of values based on a plurality of…
Dovilė Aleksaitė
Report during the symposium: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER The audio-visual project Let’s Talk about the Weather delves into realms of ecosphere, biosphere and technosphere expressed through the format of weather forecasting, wind scale and a map of emotions. The viewer is plunged into a speculative world through visual and subjective presentations of the Beaufort…
Gonzalo H. Rodriguez
Report during the symposium: THE SETTLERS OF VILLA FUTURO ‘The Settlers of Villa Futuro’ is a participative audio-visual storytelling project exploring the participative narratives of precarious urban communities to reflect on our own possibilities and limitations to imagine the future together. The project is a speculative fabulation of the future based on the intelligence of solidarity…
Andrea Liu
The Uncertain Marriage of Posthumanism and Sound Art Post-humanism as a philosophy has many heterogeneous factions: the cybernetic post-humanists are preoccupied with the human being fused with an intelligent machine. Critical post-humanists rail against the hollowness of the claims of ‘universalism’ underlying Western European/Enlightenment philosophy, rejecting anthropocentrism. Radical eliminative post-humanists envision a world where existing…
Wojciech Olchowski
Report during the symposium: HOW TO BUILD A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE AND SOCIETY THROUGH ECOPERFORMANCES’ RECORDINGS IN IMMERSIVE VIDEO FORMAT Immersive video (360-degree video, spherical video), which is often used with virtual reality (VR) technology, is a type of video content that is designed to make viewers feel like they are inside recorded space, environment,…
Sanja Särman
Report during the symposium: ICONOCEAN: ICONIC RETURN TO THE SOURCE AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE IMAGE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE According to some ancient sources, iconoclastic politics in the Byzantine empire began when Leo III interpreted natural catastrophes as signs of divine wrath caused by the idolatry of images. By defending the orthodoxy of icons, the iconophile…
Kausik Ghosh
Report during the symposium: A DISCOURSE ON POSTHUMAN COMMUNICATION: BEYOND THE SYNTACTICAL LANGUAGE. The ontology of human thought and emotions is too abstract to be conveyed using mere language. Semantic barriers have always prevented absolute communication across species and borders. The absurdity of syntactical language is found to be insufficient by the posthumans, and, therefore, they…