On Friday, 21 July 2023, the conference will open with a keynote speech by Ursula Damm (Professor for Media Environments) entitled »Non-Machines Meet Art« on the special features of non-human actors in art. This will be followed by a session on the aesthetics of the maker culture with artistic associate Mindaugas Gapševičius, Prof. Dr Verena Kuni from the Goethe University Frankfurt and media theorist Dr Yvonne Volkart from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland.

On the second conference day, Prof. Dr. Kristupas Sabolius from Vilnius University will give a lecture on the »Technics of Compossibility«. Other topics addressed in the countless lectures will range from the do-it-yourself (DIY) and do-it-with-others (DIWO) aesthetics to big data in art and new ideas for multi-species connections. Meanwhile, Director Christl Baur will share details the theme for the next Ars Electronica Festival in his session.

The conference programme will be complemented with workshops, performances, an exhibition and a film programme. Here, the highlights will include a workshop with the clown David Tann and performances by a number of sound artists from Taiwan. The speakers are not only from other European countries, Lithuania, Greece, Cyprus, the UK and Spain. Important impetus will also come from America, Colombia and Japan. Participation in the conference is free.

The full programme can be viewed online: http://non-machines.eu/programme/

It is also possible to register via the following link: https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/art-and-design/projekte/conference-non-machines-playground-of-perspectives/conference-registration/

Conference »Non-Machines: Playground of Perspectives«
21 to 22 July 2023
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

The framework for this conference was developed by the Professorship for Media Environments (Prof. Ursula Damm) with the support of the Professorship for Urban Studies and Social Research (Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt). The conference is being organised by Institutio Media in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as part of the Action Toolkit of Care of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST).

In case of questions, please do not hesitate to contact Mindaugas Gapševičius, Artistic Associate within the Professorship for Media Environments (mindaugas.gapsevicius[at]uni-weimar.de).