*Noosphere Reflection Series *

*(3^rd Month of Performance Art Berlin)*

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*Part 1 :Ex-perience*

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*Flusserian Philosophical Flux by MetafluxLab*

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Date: Wednesday, May 8^th 2013

Time: 19:00 -- 22:00

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*Artists: Claudia Becker and Rodrigo Maltez Novaes (MetafluxLab)*

*Curator: Teena Lange*

SAVVY Contemporary I Richardstraße 43/44 I 12055 Berlin-Neukölln

Photo: Noospere Part 0: The Unknown, Performative Installation by dolanbay.

For the first Noosphere Reflection, the artists and philosophers Claudia Becker and Rodrigo Maltez Novaes from the MetafluxLab are invited to experiment with new forms of knowledge production based on their own developed methodology: The Flusserian Philosophical Flux (FPF). The FPF is a dialogic exploration of contemporary philosophical concepts inspired by the work of Vilém Flusser. For the Noosphere Reflections they will connect the ideas and thoughts by Wladimir Iwanowitsch Wernadski on the development of the Noosphere with Vilém Flusser's utopian vision of a telematic society.

MetafluxLab will develop a FPF based on Flusser's essay "Ex-perience" published in /Freedom of the Migrant/, to explore the relations and connections between different thinking spaces and their physical manifestations. Within the philosophical happening »Ex-perience« MetafluxLab will investigate the conditions and relations of thinking, decisions and actions for performative processes:

/"Let us imagine that our central nervous system were to extend around the globe like a net. Let us further imagine that it constitutes something like a net. What I'm suggesting is not a science fiction but the model on which the telematic society now being built is based. [...] Such a neurosphere spanning the globe would function to compute into experience all stimuli incessantly streaming in from all directions and to transform these experiences into decisions and actions" (V.F.)/

(/the essay can be downloaded here: /https://anonfiles.com/file/f039743741c0c7b91e96934cf09c1d5c/) /

By interacting with the participants and the texts MetafluxLab will bring the materiality of thinking and the performativity of the thinking act into light to experience the link between noosphere - neurosphere - biosphere - atmosphere.

*www.metafluxlab.org*

*Claudia Becker*is a german artist and philosopher. In her work she focus on the emergence of the technical images and their effect on thinking and being. Together with Rodrigo Maltez Novaes she created the Metafluxlab, which focuses on the de-automation of thinking and the development of alternative methods of knowledge production and transfer in an experimental way. Furthermore she was junior researcher at the Institute for visual Media at the Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) works as scientific curator for the Vilém Flusser Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts.

*Rodrigo Maltez Novaes*is a Brazilian/British visual artist, Doctoral candidate at the European Graduate School (EGS) in Saas-Fee and Research Fellow at the Vilém Flusser Archive at Universität der Künste Berlin. Affiliated to the Brazilian National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPQ) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Cultural Semiotics and Media (CISC) in São Paulo, Rodrigo is the translator and editor of the first English edition of Vampyroteuthis infernalis, by Vilém Flusser, published by Atropos Press, New York, 2011. With a BA from the University of Gloucestershire and an MA from the University of the Arts London, his main areas of activity are painting, philosophy, media and communication. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

*Invited Guests*

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*Andrew Fisher *is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Currently he is working as a visiting researcher in the Kulturwissenschaft Institute at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Andrew is one of the founding editors of Philosophy of Photography, a peer reviewed journal devoted to the scholarly understanding of photography. His publications have focused on the history and theory of photography, photography and literature, photography in post-World War II art practices, phenomenological aesthetics and the phenomenological tradition more generally.

*Annie Goh*is an sound artist and researcher. Her works include installations, compositions and performances. In 2010 she completed her M.A. in Sound Studies at UdK Berlin with the topic of "Sonic Fiction". Presently, she is doing research on generative art with Alberto de Campo and works as an assistant at the Villém-Flusser-Archive.

*Vanessa Ramos Velasquez*is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher from Brazil and the United States where she was a Fulbright scholar. She navigates through performance art, installation, videoart and experimental film. In 2011 she received the Vilém Flusser Theory Award Distinction at transmediale with Digital Anthropophagy and the Anthropophagic Re-Manifesto for the Digital Age.


The Noosphere Reflection Series is part of the

*3^rd Month of Performance Art Berlin*.

www.mpa-b.org <http://www.mpa-b.org/>

Director of Performance Programming at SAVVY Contemporary: Jaime Schwartz

Artistic Director: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Press contact: [email protected] Further Information: www.savvy-contemporary.com

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University of the Arts, Berlin

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