FLOWS (UN)BOUND - Fluid Materials in Artistic and Scientific Practices
LECTURES + OPEN PANEL DISCUSSION organised by LIQUID THINGS, an art research project at the University of Applied Arts Vienna DATE October 11, 2013 2pm to 7.30pm LOCATION University of Applied Arts Vienna, Aktsaal Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna PROGRAM Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Berlin): In constant flux: Thoughts about the epistemic Prof. Dr. Friedrich Weltzien (Hannover): Fluid Aesthetics – Aesthetics of the Fluid Evelina Domnitch / Dmitry Gelfand (Amsterdam): Mesoscopic Ripples in the Neural Sea 6:30pm Open Panel Discussion: Epistemologies of the Liquid in Art and Science TOPIC The working and involvement with soft, fluctuating or ephemeral materials poses specific challenges. This applies to both practice and theory: In artistic and scientific practice specialised know-how and strategies are necessary to do justice to the mutability, instability, formlessness and processuality characteristic of fluid materials. The same counts for their theorisation in the context of contemporary debates on materiality. The dealing with and the thinking about materials in flux are the main topics of the lecture event “Flows (Un)bound”. At the centre of attention are the aesthetic and scientific potentials inherent to fluid substances and issues of their recalcitrance and productivity. Furthermore, it shall be discussed to what extent the characteristics of fluids may encourage different forms of imagination and alternative epistemologies. The access to the event is free of charge. The lectures and discussion will be held in english. We kindly ask you to REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE at http://flowsunbound.eventbrite.com/ more infos at www.LIQUIDTHINGS.NET/FLOWSUNBOUND contact us at [email protected] funded by Austrian Science Fund (PEEK - Programm zu Erweiterung und Erschließung der Künste) ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
