On Data Materialism, Techno
Poetics, Atmospheres of Conflict, and Planetary Interfaces
Angewandte Interdisciplinary
Lab
Presented by The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures
With its 2024 symposium, the
Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures continues its ongoing examination of the logics of digital cultures. The symposium takes
on current debates and integrates them with(in) other fields of research, cultural practices, and the arts.
Our present is heavily influenced by machine learning processes, technological infrastructures,
newly emerging data worlds as well as their material paradigms. In turn, this urges us to rethink the agency we are afforded
as we navigate these techno-social systems and ecologies.
What are the conditions, potentials, and limits defining
media environments and digital cultures today? What are the current conditions that technological agents produce and are produced
by? And how do they relate to concepts such as data materialism, techno aesthetics and poetics, infrastructures of conflict,
and planetary interfaces? With a commitment to ongoing discourse, social and environmental matters, our discussions will
explore how digital cultures are evolving beyond the limitations of current data-centric paradigms.
In line with
the ‘Terms of Media’-project organised by Leuphana University & Brown University, the symposium aims to re-examine fundamental
questions in media theory and history while integrating them in the interdisciplinary research conducted at the Weibel Institute.
Speakers: Asia Bazdyrieva, DeForrest Brown Jr, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Steve Goodman/Kode9, Orit Halpern,
Thomas Lamarre, Lukás Likavčan, Margarida Mendes, Elisa Giardina Papa, Luciana Parisi, Alex Quicho, Patricia Reed. Moderators:
Clemens Apprich, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, Sophie Publig, Lisa Stuckey
Symposium: In Terms of Media…
Part 1 Scheduled for Nov 21, 2024, 15:00
19:00—19:30 Live Performance: Ghost in the
Cog w/ Kenneth Constance Loe/Moritz Nahold (Subletvis)
20:00—21:00 Live Performance: EXTC w/ Joanna Coleman/Martina
Moro
Thursday
Techno-Poetics (15:00—16:30)
15:00—15:15 Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
15:15—15:30 DeForrest Brown Jr.
15:30—15:45 Margarida Mendes
15:45—16:30 Q&A moderated by
Nelly Y. Pinkrah
Data Materialism (17:00—18:30)
17:00—17:15 Orit Halpern
17:15—17:30
Elisa Giardina Papa
17:30—17:45 Luciana Parisi
17:45—18:30 Q&A moderated by Clemens Apprich
19:30—20:30 Performance w/ Speaker Music
Friday
Planetary Interfaces (15:00—16:30)
15:00—15:15 Thomas Lamarre
15:15—15:30 Patricia Reed
15:30—15:45 Lukáš Likavčan
15:45—16:30
Q&A moderated by Sophie Publig
Atmospheres of Conflict (17:00—18:30)
17:00—17:15
Alex Quicho
17:15—17:30 Steve Goodman
17:30—17:45 Asia Bazdyrieva
17:45—18:30 Q&A moderated
by Lisa Stuckey
In addition to the symposium, the Weibel Institute will present the exhibition
Data Doom Desire and performances.
The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures is a space for intervention,
investigation, and experimentation within the expansive disciplines of arts, science, and technologies. Based at the University
of Applied Arts Vienna, the institute critically engages digital and algorithmic cultures. Building on the rich heritage of
Viennese investigations into cybernetics, net cultures, media art, and tactical media, the institute serves as a vital node
within a global network of research institutions on digital cultures. (More
info)
Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL) is an experimental space and a platform for projects at the
intersection of art, science and artistic research, run by the University of Applied Arts Vienna. AIL is located in the Otto
Wagner-Postsparkasse and home of Café Exchange (Free entry)
