Conference 21–22 July 2023
Venues: Audimax, Foyer Audimax, Library lounge
Bauhaus University Weimar, Steubenstraße 6, 99423 Weimar
Admission: free
Registration deadline: 7 July 2023
Day 1. Morning, 21 July 2023
Live stream
9.00 Registration & Coffee / Foyer Audimax
9.30 Welcome Remarks
• Mindaugas Gapševičius & Marinos Koutsomichalis / Audimax
9.45 Keynote / Audimax
• Ursula Damm: Non-machines Meet Art
10.45 Session I: Towards An Aesthetics of Maker Culture / Audimax
• Verena Kuni. TROUSSE DU NAUFRAGÉ: A Toolkit of Found Philosophical Toys
• Yvonne Volkart. Technologies of Care: To M-other a Plant
• Mindaugas Gapševičius. Towards Aesthetics of Maker Culture
12.15 Workshop I (Registration needed) / Library lounge
• Klaus Fritze. Lichenlounge
Day 1. Afternoon, 21 July 2023
13.30 Session II. Emerging data* / Audimax
• Alexander König. The end of logic and the metaphysical emergence out of data
• Mattis Kuhn. Self-Driving Futures
• Mona Hedayati. Eventing Human-Machine Affectivity: Listen, Eat, Repeat
15.00 Session III. Creative hybrid networks / Library lounge
• Ivan Iovine. Designing Speculative Nonhuman-robot Scenarios: An Artistic Approach
• Jascha Hagen. Alter Piano // 6 Compositions for 12 digitally controlled electromotors inside a grand piano
• Luis Fernando Medina Cardona. Ritmo 2021: a distributed abstract experimental short movie based on computer code as a result of hybrid interactions
16.00 Session IV. DIY & DIWO / Library lounge
• Marinos Koutsomichalis. Machines of Sentient Resonance
• Teresa G. Georgallis. Digitally Handmade: Mapping out a maker’s approach to emerging technologies
• Eva Korae. A laser (non) cutter, or how (not) to make scrambled eggs
Day 2. Morning, 22 July 2023
Live stream
9.00 Registration & Coffee / Foyer Audimax
9.30 Opening Remarks / Audimax
• Johanna Reckewerth
9.40 Keynote / Audimax
• Kristupas Sabolius. The Technics of Compossibility
10.45 Session V. Multi-species connections / Audimax
• Lyndsey Walsh. Body & AI: Breaking the Binaries
• Shuntaro Yoshida & Alex Viteiri. Navigating Choreography Between the Human and the Non-human: Collective Practice and Disobedient Movements
• Johanna Reckewerth. Multi-species connections
12.15 Workshop II (Registration needed) / Library lounge
• David Tann. The Arcane Alchemist: Unleashing the Fool for Human-AI Synergy
Day 2. Afternoon, 22 July 2023
13.30 Session VI. Care in Creative Practices / Library lounge
• Marinos Koutsomichalis. Care in Creative Practices
• Eric Lewis. Care for Machines as a form of self-care: erasing the self-human/other-machine divide
• Jenny Pickett. Do it with others : methodology for an “aesthetics of care” in artistic production
• Yiannis Colakides. Learning Care
15.00 Session VII. Everyday design solutions / Library lounge
• Yu Zhang. “Seriously Being That Furniture”: Design Moments for Healing
• Valeria Castillo. My iPhone is my mother
• Yiorgis Sakellariou. Navigating in the Multiverse: Possibilities and Limitations of Creative Practices in Online Environments
16.00 Session VIII. Investigative Uses of Data / Library lounge
• Shahriar Assadi. An ongoing inquiry of the relationship between technology, humans and extraction
• Rose Butler. Special Operations: Deploying artists’ methods in investigative practices
• Florian Kuhn and Erik Esso. Blurred Boundaries: Human, Machine, and the Posthuman World
* Update June 21, 2023: Christl Baur unfortunately had to withdraw her contribution