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Programme (extended)Thursday May 2 nd 15:00 Seminar. Hannes Brunner, Reading Judith Butler “To Sense What IsLiving in the Other: Hegel’s Early Love”Each year, millions of people switch off their lights for Earth Hour in their local times on the lastSaturday of March. Meanwhile, others use that hour for attracting attention. All of the sudden, theStar Trek logo appears above London Bridge, generated by a great number of quadrocopters. Itgives attention to a new movie. The drones carve a sign into the sky and send the message. Othersdrones, however, carve into other areas of the earth, leaving traces and death behind. Who isresponsible? Which messages are taken for granted?To initiate the discussion to “aesthetic responsibility drones”, a collective reading of Judith Butler“To Sense What Is Living in the Other: Hegel’s Early Love” serves as introduction and cross link.Hannes Brunner’s art installations and sculptures favor ephemeral materials. His contextual artprojects include social process and different media from digital communication into real physicalspaces. He is currently a Professor of the sculpture department at Weissensee Academy of ArtBerlin. Till 2008 he was Chairman of a Fine Arts Motion Graphic program at NYIT, New YorkInstitute of Technology, in Abu Dhabi, UAE; before that he was Professor of the Art Projectdepartment at Muthesius Academy of Architecture, Fine Art and Design in Kiel, Germany.www.hannesbrunner.comThursday May 2 nd 19:00 Lecture. Mark Bishop, All watched over by machines of emptygrace? Moderated by Hubertus von AmelunxenThe drive towards the development, manufacture and deployment of robot weapons is not withoutrisk. In this talk I will sketch out issues relating to robotic warfare – at one end of the spectrum afuture humanity unleashing killer robots (Hollywood’s ‘Terminators’; teleological machinesultimately capable of widespread destruction and subjugation); at the other, current deployment ofthe “Iron Dome” (an all weather anti-missile defence system); and highlight some of the risks thatlie ahead unless internationally, nationally and collectively we act swiftly to prohibit the widespreaddeployment of autonomous weapons.Mark Bishop is Professor of Cognitive Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London and Chair ofthe UK society for Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB). He has publishedover 130 articles in the field of Cognitive Computing: its theory – where his interests centre on thefoundations of the swarm intelligence paradigm “Stochastic Diffusion Processes”; its application –he has worked on industrial problems in autonomous robotics, neural networks and colour; and itsphilosophical foundations – he has developed a novel argument against the possibility of machineconsciousness entitled “Dancing with Pixies”.Theorist and curator Hubertus von Amelunxen is a President of the Braunschweig University of Art(HBK). From 2001 to 2005 Hubertus von Amelunxen was appointed the Founding Director of theISNM International School of New Media at the University of Luebeck, Germany, which openedwith a Master of Science program in 2002. From 2005 to 2009 he was appointed the Rector of theEuropean School of Visual Arts / Ecole européenne supérieure de l’image in France (Angoulême,Poitiers). In 2003 he was honored by the election as Member to the Akademie der Künste in Berlin,in 2006 by the nomination to the Walter Benjamin Chair at the European Graduate School.Tuesday May 7 th 15:00 Presentation of Dronology Workshops. Žilvinas Lilas (Academy ofMedia Arts Cologne) Hanna Hennenkemper (Weissensee Art Academy Berlin) andparticipantsA drone-based action is for most part an impersonal, mono-directional playable system whichstrictly adheres to a sinister seek-and-destroy routine. Our workshop starts with an excursion to theWeißensee/ Berlin where we will explore and gather site-specific facts, characteristics andsubsidiary phenomena’s around the location. By reckoning settings and situations as parametric
structures with social, aesthetic or political functions we will unfold this geo-graphed information’sinto the interactive-playable or any other narrative format, to focus sights on space as anideological construct and to attempt a spatial narration, departing from a stern cartographicaltradition and emanating into an open array of enterprises that encourage for an extendeddeparture from the orthodox dronologic act.Žilvinas Lilas served multiple positions during his professional career ranging from InteractiveInterface Designer to Chief Artist, and as Technical Director for a number of both start-ups andinternationally renowned companies such as Walt Disney Studios, Oddworld Inhabitants,Metrolight Studios, Artist’s Inc. He has worked on a number of animated feature films, games,publications, and television projects including Treasure Planet and Chicken Little. His researchinterests include interactive art and design, simulated environments and scenarios, and identityand technology.Hanna Hennenkemper working as a free artist she was additionally lecturing at the academies ofBerlin and Halle a .d. Saale. Since 2010 she is a guest professor for drawing and contemporaryprint making at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. Her research interests include relations fromart and philosophy, in particular the role of “intuition” as a genuine resource of gathering complexknowledge-/ content- conglomerations to be displayed in an elaborated and self-sufficient visuallanguage use. Related to that is the interest in media-use as an iteration of inherent structurepossibilitiesand its implications on contemporary subject-philosophy.Tuesday May 7 th 19:00 Lecture. Marcus Steinweg (Braunschweig University of Art), “TheSubject of Art”The subject of art is a subject of this self-assertion. It asserts itself as a subject of breathlessnesswhich leads it to the limit of its being as subject. By subject I denote that which is irreducible to itsstatus as object, to its objective reality. The object-status constitutes the subject’s portion of reality.A subject is what transcends, transgresses, surpasses this reality since it is something other thanan object codified and represented in the realm of facts. The factical codification of the subject canbe neither disputed nor made absolute. It is nothing other than a fact. In relation to this fact, thesubject asserts itself as a nameless resistance in order at no time to assimilate itself to theauthority of facts.Philosopher Marcus Steinweg, born in 1971, lives in Berlin. Regulary teaching and lecturing atVolksbühne Berlin, HZT of UdK Berlin, HBK Braunschweig. His bibliography includes: BatailleMaschine (2 Vol., with Thomas Hirschhorn, Berlin: Merve 2003), Subjektsingularitäten (Berlin:Merve 2004), Behauptungsphilosophie (Berlin: Merve 2006), Duras (with Rosemarie Trockel,Berlin: Merve 2008), Politik des Subjekts (Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes 2009), Aporien der Liebe(Berlin: Merve 2010), Kunst und Philosophie / Art and Philosophy (Cologne: Walther König 2012)Tuesday May 7 th 20:00 Sonic Agents Workshop Presentations with Derek Holzer (Soundartist) and participantsIn sonic terms, a "drone" can be considered an ongoing process which acts of its own accord.While this is commonly thought of as a steady tone or chord, much of my own work involves thecreation of more complex, autonomous agents responsible for various parts of an audiocomposition. In this workshop, we will investigate different methods, involving loudspeakers,feedback and simple 9-Volt electronics, for creating such generative, self-playing sound systems.Each participant will construct their own primitive noise synthesizer, which they will present on thefinal day of the workshop. Please bring some type of wooden (preferred--cigar boxes are perfect!)or plastic enclosure to hold your circuit as well as any kind of speaker you can salvage from toys,radios, portable stereos or hi-fi systems.Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist based in Berlin DE, whose current interestsinclude DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic,noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound, as well as taughtworkshops in noise art technology, across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand.http://macumbista.net
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