Einladung zu den Abendvorträgen im Rahmen der Ph.D.-Lehrwoche
Im Rahmen der Ph.D.-Lehrwoche vom 24. bis 28. Juni 2019 finden hochschulöffentliche Abendvorträge statt, zu denen Interessierte herzlich eingeladen sind. Wir begrüßen Christoph Brunner und Matteo Pasquinelli. Prof. Michael Lüthy gibt zudem seine Antritts- bzw. Jubiläumsvorlesung.
Christoph Brunner: OTHER KNOWLEDGES AND KNOWLEDGES OTHERWISE? – Research-Creation in More-Than-Epistemic Worldings
Time:
Monday, 24 June, 7.30 p.m.
Location:
Van-de-Velde-Bau, room 116
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7
99423 Weimar
While the discourse on artistic research has taken many forms and developed across several disciplinary boundaries, the concern with knowledge and the epistemological values of artistic research practices maintain a certain dominance. The question how artistic practices generate »other knowledges« or forms of knowledge that are less cognitive and more sensuous, intuitive or implicit remain in the hegemonic realm or Western thought and its subsumed fields such as philosophy and aesthetics. In a first move, I will engage with post- and decolonial critiques of knowledge and the claim for an »epistemic disobedience« (Mignolo) before turning towards what I call »more-than-epistemic worldings.« The key challenge for such aesthetic re-distributions of sensible fields resides in seeking out situated yet translocally intertwined practices and their capacities to resist their capture and deployment in another aesthetic and epistemic regime for the sake of semiocapitalist value extraction. In that sense I want to ask if research-creation practices in more-than epistemic worldings allow for a “holding open” (van Dooren), for ways of noticing and encountering that do not undermine the forms of violence present in earthly life but propose a gentleness of words, thoughts, and acts that enable new modes of existence to co-emerge joyously.
Christoph Brunner is junior professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg. In his research he deals with aesthetic politics and new forms of pragmatism in relation to artistic and activist media practices. He is part of the DFG Research Group Media and Participation and coordinates the DFG Network »Other Knowledges in Artistic Research and Aesthetic Theory.« He is director of the ArchipelagoLab for Transversal Practices, part of the eipcp/transversal texts collective and member of the SenseLab in Montreal. His work has been published with Third Text, Conjunctions, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, transversal, Inflexions, Fibreculture among others.
Matteo Pasquinelli: THE ALGORITHMS AS CULTURAL TECHNIQUE - From ancient geometric rituals to the mechanisation of mental labour
Time:
Wednesday, 26 June, 7.30 p.m.
Location:
Van-de-Velde-Bau, room HP05
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7
99423 Weimar
As the mathematician Jean-Luc Chabert noted: »Algorithms have been around since the beginning of time and existed well before a special word had been coined to describe them. Algorithms are not confined to mathematics. The Babylonians used them for deciding points of law, Latin teachers used them to get the grammar right, and they have been used in all cultures for predicting the future, for deciding medical treatment, or for preparing food.« Ancient algorithms emerged from ritual practices and the organisation of the social life. During the industrial revolution, Babbage's calculating engines emerged from the project to mechanise the division of mental labour. Similarly, today, the algorithms of machine learning and AI emerge from personal data and collective behaviours. Our perspective about the algorithms of AI, then, have to change. Algorithms are usually perceived to be the application of complex mathematical formulas in the abstract. On the contrary, even the most complex algorithms always emerge from material practices: they are emergent processes that materialise out of a previous and spontaneous division of space, time and labour.
Matteo Pasquinelli (PhD) is Professor in Media Philosophy at the University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, where he is coordinating the research group on critical machine intelligence KIM. He recently edited the anthology Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas (Meson Press) among other books. His research focuses the intersection of cognitive sciences, digital economy and machine intelligence. For Verso Books he is preparing a monograph provisionally titled The Eye of the Master: Capital as Computation and Cognition.
Jubiläumsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Michael Lüthy: LICHTENSTEINS PICASSOS – Kunstparaphrase und Bildreflexion
Zeit:
Donnerstag, 27. Juni, 19.30 Uhr
Ort:
Van-de-Velde-Bau, Raum 116
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7
99423 Weimar
Der Vortrag, im Grenzgebiet zwischen Kunstgeschichte, Kunsttheorie und Bildsemiotik, zeigt exemplarisch, wie Michael Lüthys Forschung und Lehre historische und systematische Fragen an die Kunst miteinander zu verbinden sucht.
Michael Lüthy (geb. 1966 in Zürich) ist seit 2014 Professor für Geschichte und Theorie der Kunst an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Studium der Kunstgeschichte und Geschichte an der Universität Basel und der FU Berlin, Promotion in Basel über Édouard Manet, Habilitation in Berlin über die Ästhetik moderner Kunst im Anschluss an Ludwig Wittgenstein. 2003-2014 wissenschaftlicher Koordinator sowie Geschäftsführer des SFB „Ästhetische Erfahrung im Zeichen der Entgrenzung der Künste“ an der FU Berlin, 2010-2014 an derselben Universität auch Professor für Neuere und Neueste Kunstgeschichte.