There is so much toxicity and contamination in the world. It is incontestable that vast parts of nature are poisoned, ailing or in retreat, and under threat. We live amongst poisoned materials. Drawing on the various ways in which Adorno and Benjamin addressed both the assault on nature, in the name of progress, and the possibility …
Workshop at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) Organized by Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) & Christian Berger (Universität Siegen), Ruby de Vos (University of Groningen), Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Our workshop sets out from the obvious, yet underexplored assumption, that much of the very stuff that art is made of …
Workshop with c:o/re Senior Fellows Anna Laktionova, Masahiko Hara and Carl Mitcham from the Colorado School of Mines. The workshop unfolds as a discussion format in which three presentations are followed by discussions and comments. From an engineering perspective, Masahiko Hara speaks about his research on living and non-living systems and their interaction. Following on …
Abstract: My thesis is that discussion of ethical and other issues in the philosophy of technology needs to be complemented with political philosophy. Development of the thesis takes place in three parts. Part one notes the absence of political philosophy in the first, classic European period in the philosophy of technology. Part two reviews developments …
Abstract: New emerging sciences and technologies - such as AI, synthetic biology, or robotics - are too often discussed in isolation. As a result, little attention is paid to the potential commonalities and ways in which they can inform each other. In this talk, I want to focus on aspect of what many of these …
Abstract: The notion of uplift has a science-fictional and social justice connotation: it is the raising up of one species by another as well as a historical (and often racially codified) way of speaking of how one group raises itself up above limiting structural conditions. While these notions seem disparate they in fact have a …
Live Art Installation and Conversation on “Fluctonomous Emergence” Abstract: Unfelt Threshold is a project in which Japanese artist Aoi Suwa is indirectly linking together various pieces of objects and images, exhibiting the creations that she has produced over the years. As part of the project, c:o/re Senior Fellow Masahiko Hara and Aoi Suwa will stage a …
Abstract: Materials are found at the very center of our life, situated in the complex zone between nature and society. In the recent decades, new discoveries in the natural sciences and in the materials sciences have enabled to develop new materials, so called 'active materials' and ‘Bio-inspired Materials’. These new materials are considered as entities …
The workshop takes place in cooperation with the project „Computer Signals: Art and Biology in the Age of Digital Experimentation“, a research collaboration between artist, biologist and the humanities. During the workshop, different formats and practices of science communication, specially those experimenting with artistic forms, will be discussed. Furthermore, there will be an installation format, …
Live performance on the audification of data and computer processes The artistic research project „Computer Signals: Art and Biology in the Age of Digital Experimentation“ by Prof. Hannes Rickli at the University of Arts in Zürich engages with digital data work as audible and experienceable. On Friday, the 16th of February 2024, at 7:30pm at …
Metascience is often defined as the scientific investigation of science itself with the aim to improve science. This ‘improving’ part of metascience has been called a reform movement. While the intention to improve science is generally laudable, metascience and the associated movement(s) are not without their critics. The metascience reform movement has for instance, been …
Organizer: Hans Ekkehard Plesser Computational neuroscience, the field dedicated to understanding brain function through modelling, is dominated by small ad hoc models of neuronal networks designed to explain individual research questions. Such models are frequently implemented in low-level programming languages (e.g. C++, Matlab, Python) and at best shared as collections of source code files. By …
Käte Hamburger Kolleg:
Cultures of Research (c:o/re)
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52062 Aachen
