Slovenian Society of Aesthetics 40th International Colloquium: “Surplus Art: Art – Science – Philosophy”
Collaborating institutions: Science and Research Center & Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies, Vitanje October 10–13, 2012 Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, Metelkova, Maistrova 3, SI-1000 Ljubljana Program committee: Polona Tratnik (president), Ales Erjavec, Mojca Puncer, Misko Suvakovic, Krystyna Wilkoszewska, Marie-Luise Angerer, Sue “Johnny” Golding, Maria Antonia Gonzalez Valerio Organizing committee: Polona Tratnik, Monika Vrecar, Spela Pavli “Surplus Art: Art – Science – Philosophy” Between the 16th and the 18th centuries in Europe a transition takes place from the scientific tradition of the Middle Ages to the new age of science, which is today known by the term scientific revolution, when the field of science is being constituted in a modern sense. At the end of this period in a similar manner art as an autonomous sphere has been established, which becomes the subject of aesthetics as philosophy of art. In the 1980s and 1990s the discussions about the end of art, philosophy of art, art history and modernity are very dynamic and diagnose bigger changes that happen in the field of art. In the middle of the 1990s several theories attempt to detect the phenomenon of convergence of the fields separated in modernity. With a group of colleagues John Brockman develops the concept of the third culture (The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, 1995) in which he borrows from C. P. Snow (The Two Cultures, 1959) who, in the second edition of his book (1963), already detects the emergence of a new, i.e. the third culture. If Snow speaks about separation of the two cultures, scientific and literary intellectual, Brockman detects the appearance of third culture thinkers, who have become the new public intellectuals, while science has become a public culture, a big story. The term third culture soon became transmitted into the art circles where it has started to denote the growing phenomenon of the convergence and intertwining of art and science and which later echoes also in the ideas about the fourth culture etc. Simultaneously with the concept of the third culture a group of theoreticians of science (Gibbons et al., 1994) publish a well-noticed theory about the Mode-2 science, which has started to appear along with the traditional, i.e. the modern mode of science (Mode-1 science), but which is different: therein interdisciplinarity is emphasized, present are heterogeneity, greater social responsibility, with professionals temporarily collaborating with the aim of solving specific problems, science moves to nonscientific fields, applicability is increased, and collaboration with economy becomes important—the paradigm characterizes humanities as well. Seven years later a theory is re-considered with emphasizing the relation between knowledge and public in the age of uncertainty (Nowotny et al., 2001). In the last decade professional communities of art/science consolidate and enable the work in laboratories and similar specialized environments. Projects that arise from the collaboration between artists and scientists are being shown and discussed at the world-format festivals, financial sources are looking for the ways to support such projects, carried out by the artists of a new type, i.e. artists-researchers. We are witnessing an occurrence of a phenomenon which sometimes holds a simple name: new renaissance. However, the recent voices also oppose the possibility of art and science to intertwine in a common enterprise (Jean-Marc Levy Leblond, La science n’est pas l’art, 2010). The colloquium is devoted to a re-consideration of the surplus art, brought about with mixing and even traversing of art into science. Attention will be devoted to the related issues, such as: what are the grounds for, and consequences of, the convergences and divergences of the two fields, art and science, what function attains art in the new structure of the social fields and in regard to the changed modes of production and communication of knowledge, what are its socio-structural possibilities. Also: what is the role of philosophy within the process of the intertwinement of art with science and in what manner can in this connection philosophy of art today still be thought? The language of the colloquium is English. The colloquium has been supported by Slovenian Research Agency and Slovenian Book Agency. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012 18:00–19:00 guest speaker and featured art scene: Jurij Krpan & Kapelica Gallery: Producing and Showing Projects in the Intersection of Art and Science 19:00 refreshment THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2012 08:45–09:00 opening of the colloquium 09:00–09:35 Polona Tratnik (Slovenian Society of Aesthetics, president; Science and Research Centre & Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska): New Renaissance: Technē and Nature, Art and (Bio) Technology 09:35–10:10 Krystyna Wilkoszewska (Head of the Department of Aesthetics at the Institute of Philosophy, the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; president of Polish Association of Aesthetics, president): Between Art and Science. Tasks of Contemporary Artists 10:10–10:45 Misko Suvakovic (Faculty of Music, Belgrade & University of Arts, Belgrade): Art, Politics, Technology, and Science – Spectacularisation 10:45–11:00 coffee break 11:00–11:35 Marie-Luise Angerer (Academy of Media Arts Cologne): From a Post-Medium to a Post- Biological Condition 11:35–12:10 Robert Mitchell (Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory, Duke University): Media and Surplus: Population Aesthetics 12:10–12:45 Maria Antonia Gonzalez Valerio (National Autonomous University of Mexico): Bio Art on the Verge of Aesthetic Ontology 12:45–14:30 lunch break 14:30–15:05 Melentie Pandilovski (Video Pool Media Arts Centre Winnipeg, director): Creativity: Tool for Transcending of the Breakdown of Communication Between the Cultures of Sciences and Humanities 15:05–15:40 Monika Vrecar (Slovenian Society of Aesthetics, secretary): Calculating Creativity 15:40–16:15 Ernest Zenko (Science and Research Centre & Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska): Aesthetics, Technology, Media: The Case of Friedrich Kittler 16:15–16:30 coffee break 16:30–17:05 Ingeborg Reichle (Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt University Berlin): Modes of Visualization: Aesthetics and Realism in Scientific Visualization 17:05–17:40 Jan Babnik (Fotografija magazine, editor-in-chief): Transparency and Documentary. Photography in the Age of Simulation FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012 09:00–09:35 Nenad Jelesijevic (KITCH Institute): Toward Disidentification. Entering the Common In- between Art, Philosophy and Science 09:35–10:10 Darko Strajn (Educational Research Institute; Institute for Studies in Humanities, Ljubljana): Fictions of Science 10:10–10:45 Kenneth G. Hay (University of Leeds): Two Cultures Still? Some Considerations of Scientific and Artistic Method 10:45–11:00 coffee break 11:00–11:35 Lev Kreft (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana; Peace Institute, director): (Dis)enfranchisement of Surplus 11:35–12:10 Stephen Crocker (Memorial University of Newfoundland): Noise is to Communication What a Virus is to an Organism 12:10–12:45 Mojca Puncer (University of Maribor): The Surplus Art on the Intersections with Science, through the Lens of Philosophy: A Few Case Studies 12:45–14:30 lunch break 14:30–15:05 Sue “Johnny” Golding (Centre for Fine Art, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design at Birmingham City University, director): Ana-Materialism & The Pineal Eye: Becoming Mouth-Breast (or Visual Arts after Descartes, Bataille, Butler, Deleuze, and Synthia with an ‘S’) 15:05–15:40 Zdravko Radman (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb; University of Split): The Primacy of the Aesthetic 15:40–16:15 Valentina Hribar Sorcan (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana): The Impact of Science on Abstract Art 16:15–16:30 coffee break 16:30–17:05 Spela Pavli: Contemporary Share and Permanent Transition in Visual Praxis 17:05–17:40 Alan N. Shapiro: On the Conditions for the Valid and Invalid Uses of Trans- and Trans- disciplinary 17:40 closing of the colloquium ------------ Slovenian Society of Aesthetics Gosposka 13, 1000 Ljubljana, www.sde.si, [email protected] -- Other Info: Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Also - Furtherfield Gallery & Social Space: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery About Furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
