In Terms of Media…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQcjurAhexg

Symposium: In Terms of Media… Part 2
Scheduled for Nov 22, 2024, 15:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Kzzj97mcg

Symposium Program:

21–22 Nov, 15:00–19:00

Opening: 20 Nov, 18:00

Wednesday

18:00 Welcome w/ Clemens Apprich

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

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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)

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